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Submit items to Campus CurrentsThe Campus Currents is distributed every Friday. If you would like to include an item in the newsletter send it to: Campus Currents, USB 9512 or by e-mail to Campus Currents. Deadline is Thursday at 8 a.m. Welcome to Black Hills State University - TopRosemary Robertson, custodial worker, facilities services
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When Bill Bogard arrived on
the Black Hills State campus in 1970 to begin his career as a professor of English, he
expected to stay a couple of years and then move on. The decision to stay has taken some
time, but now he will retire.
The affable 60-year-old professor is leaving the confines of the campus and classrooms in Jonas Hall but will keep in touch through his computer. He will teach a couple of humanities classes over the internet, something he has been doing in addition to his regular teaching assignment for the past several years.
“Sometimes you end up in a place physically and spiritually where you didn't expect to be,” he said. “I've enjoyed my time here teaching courses.”
He said the area gave him the opportunity to enjoy life and do things out of school that he might not have been able to do elsewhere. Looking back he was glad he hadn't hitched his wagon to an administrative job and gone elsewhere.
When his wife, Nikki, who worked in the business office at the university for more than 25 years, died a couple of years ago, he was uncertain what the future might hold.
“It was the defining point in my life here in Spearfish,” he said. “I now enter retirement with conflicted feelings.”
But time lessens the pain of loss and he is ready for change. He has met a woman he will marry this summer. He was introduced to Helene over the internet in a chat group that was dealing with grief. She had recently lost her husband.
The two of them plan to travel to Europe this fall and then return to the states. He has rented out his house to college students so he is uncertain where they will live. She is from New York but currently resides in Florida.
With his background in teaching and writing and hers as a stand-up comic, they plan to work in an area not usually identified with humor. They would like to develop a routine that can be presented at hospices, grief clinics and hospitals, a place where they believe healing and humor can coexist with positive results.
Reviewing his years in the classroom the BH English professor remains upbeat and positive about today's students.
“I'm not the type of person who says kids are worse today. I'm not convinced that they are not bright and articulate. I still very much like the students, the give and take in the classroom and the competition of ideas. I'm going out feeling good about the students and where professors are taking them.”
Teaching humanities has been his favorite subject because the content covers so many areas from history to religion to art to philosophy. At times he has taught as many as 500 students a semester in humanities classes. He hopes his students come out of that experience with the ability to make connections across the curriculum.
“They should have a synoptic vision rather than an isolated analytical vision,” he said. “The educated person can see connections between literature, chemistry, history, the past and the present. That should be the focus of education now and in the future.”
Increasing technology has brought about changes in education. He has been on the leading edge by teaching humanities over the internet and plans to continue that offering into his retirement years.
“Technology has contributed to my movement from sage on the stage to guide on the side,” he said explaining his current teaching style. “With information much more readily available, how do you access, interpret, and use it?”
He said technology has forced him to change his teaching style from the old lecture method to that of facilitating understanding through meaning, relationships and values.
“Acquiring data only is a meaningless exercise,” said Bogard. “That's what now interests me about the internet, how to facilitate understanding and value into the next millennium.”
Though he will not be in the classroom on campus, he may be traveling down the road in his RV with a lap top computer nearby ready to make connections via the internet and thus inspiring students to make connections in their lives intellectually, socially and spiritually. He won't be lecturing but involving them subtly in the learning process of how to acquire knowledge using technology and its vast resources.
Seventeen Career Service Act (CSA) employees were recently honored at luncheon for dedication and years of service at Black Hills State University.
Fred Nelson, senior support computer specialist and state CSA representative, served as master of ceremonies. Tommi Jo Casteel, 1999 Miss Rodeo South Dakota and 1998 BHSU graduate, provided the keynote address. President Thomas Flickema handed out certificates of recognition.
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BHSU career services staff honored recently for dedication and service to the university were front left, Margaret Kleinsasser, secretary, 20 years; Jane Mattson, 20 years, cook; Marilyn Luscombe, 20 years, accountant; and Jerri Geist, 20 years, senior secretary; Second row left, Eddie Harris, building maintenance worker II, 15 years; and Becky Bruce, personnel assistant, 15 years. Third row left, Dawn Schmidt, cook, ten years; Janet Bettelyoun, custodial worker, ten years; and Cheryl Leahy, senior secretary, ten years. Back row left, Joe Ramirez, building maintenance worker, five years; Michelle Kirk, senior secretary, five years and Rebecca Dovre, food service supervisor, five years. Not pictured are: Jennifer Green, staff assistant, five years; Colleen Gustafson, secretary, five years; Leonard Eisenbraun, building maintenance specialist, 15 years; and Gary Hunt, building maintenance specialist, 15 years. |
Traditional Lakota art will be on display in the lobby of the David B. Miller Yellow Jacket Student Union on the BHSU campus Thursday and Friday, April 29 and 30 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Students from the spring semester Art 143 - Traditional Lakota Arts course invite the public to view their completed art projects. Instructor Jace DeCory invites everyone to "help celebrate Lakota ways through Lakota art."
For more information contact DeCory at 642-6295.
You are cordially invited to a retirement dinner for Ms. Lola Kletzmayer being held at Margies Dinner Club, 83 Hwy. 14, Spearfish, on April 30. Social hour begins at 6 p.m., followed by the meal at 6:30 p.m..
Choice of meals on the menu are chicken breasts, chicken fried steak or Black Hills trout for $9.50 with tax and tip included; or 8 oz. filet, prime rib, or jumbo shrimp for $15.50 with tax and tip included. Please RSVP by April 23 with number attending and choice of meal. You may send your reply to Facilities Services, 1200 University, USB 9513, Spearfish, SD 57799-9513, or call 605-642-6560. Hosted by Facilities Services.
The Black Hills State University music department will present a Spring Concert Sunday, April 25 at 2:30 p.m. in the multipurpose room of the David B. Miller Yellow Jacket Student Union.
The woodwind ensemble is under the direction of Dr. Randall Royer and the concert choir will be directed by Stephen Parker.
Entrepreneurship is getting an early start in Spearfish as students in Claudia Little's fifth grade class are working on business plans with student volunteers from Black Hills State University.
University students from Priscilla Young's seminar in Entrepreneurship class and members from the campus organization Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE) served as mentors to East Elementary students who are working on business projects.
Three fifth-grade teachers wrote a grant that gave students the opportunity to start their own business. BHSU business students went over the fifth graders business plan in order to help them develop and market their product. The final project will be shown at a fair next month at which time fifth-grade students' products will be sold.
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It's none of your business or maybe it is as fifth graders in Claudia Little's class work on their business plan with help from their teacher and BHSU student volunteer Dominic Massa. Massa, a junior business administration major from Rapid City, helps Megan Hefnagel and Brooke Reis with their business plan. The fifth graders are working on a business project they will present at a fair in May. |
Fifth graders from Claudia Little's class at East Elementary in Spearfish teamed up with Black Hills State University students to help in a clean-up project at the Young Center.
College students in Dr. Larry Tentinger's methods of health education class and the fifth graders joined ranks to make a difference regarding environmental health.
BHSU physical education majors spent a week in fifth-grade classrooms teaching about environmental health issues. They concluded the academic portion of their project with an outdoor clean-up activity.
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Dr. Larry Tentinger, center, hands out plastic trash bags and points out the route students are to follow during their clean-up project on the BHSU campus. Physical education majors and fifth graders joined forces after studying a unit together on environmental health issues. |
The 15th annual Kevin Whirlwind Horse Memorial Run was held last weekend on the campus of Black Hills State University in conjunction with the Lakota Omniciye Powwow.
Leona White Hat, a sophomore from St. Francis, was selected to receive the 1999 Kevin Whirlwind Horse Memorial Scholarship. White Hat is an English/secondary education major, and is an active member of AISES and Lakota Omniciye. She also writes for the Today paper.
The annual scholarship is funded through proceeds from the annual Kevin Whirlwind Horse Memorial Run/Walk.
Results of the Whirlwind race are as follows:
Vince Hafner, Sturgis, was the overall winner of the men's 5-K run, with a time of 19:53. Jola Wallowing Bull was the women's overall 5-K winner with a time of 21:01. Betsy Silva of Spearfish won the women's 10-K event with a time of 45:00, and Mike Ryan of Lower Brule was the men's winner with a time of 41:33.
Dominic Mills of Rapid City won the boys' 8 & under quarter-mile run, and Kaitlyn Hemmingson of Spearfish was the girls' quarter-mile winner. Leah Sperry of Spearfish won the girls' 9-12 half-mile run, and Nick Mayer of Spearfish was the top finisher in the boys' division.
Special guests included President Flickema and Mrs. Mae Whirlwind Horse and family, including the Whirlwind Horse, Benoist, One Skunk, and King families and Kevin Whirlwind Horse Jr.
Complete race results are as follows:
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Leona White Hat, a sophomore English major from St. Francis, is this year's recipient of the Kevin Whirlwind Horse Memorial Scholarship at BHSU. Presenting the scholarship certificate to White Hat was Mae Whirlwind Horse. |
Below are the program materials received April 10 - 20 in the grants office, Woodburn 220. For copies of the information, contact our office at 642-6627 or e-mail requests to us at . Fellowship information will also be posted on the Student Union bulletin board near the information desk.
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