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Call For Nominations
Teacher of the Year The Professional Education Department will induct its sixth group into the Teacher of the
Year Hall of Fame in the spring of 2005. In order to be considered in this round of selections, nominations must be mailed
to the Professional Education Department, 1500 Birchmont Drive NE, Box 35, Bemidji, MN 56601 and postmarked on or
before January 12, 2005.
The honor is called the Professional Education Department Hall of Fame Award and is granted to teacher education graduates
of Bemidji State University. The basic criteria for selection is that the BSU alum must have been selected as a teacher
or administrator of the year for a public or private school district, college or university.
Teachers, administrators, or school board members of a district may make nominations. Nominations must include two
letters of support - one letter from a fellow teacher and one letter from an administrator or school board member (past
or present). In addition, a copy of the news release or the newspaper article that announced the candidate’s selection as
teacher or administrator of the year should be submitted.
All fi nalists will be asked to provide a resume’. Those individuals selected to receive the award will also be asked to submit
an 8-inch by 10-inch color photograph for framing and placement in the Education–Art Building on the BSU campus.
All nominees who are not chosen this year will be carried over and will be included in the next selection process.
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Judy (Peggar) Brasgalla, Mary’s daughter, met her husband
through her Birch Hall roommate when he was on leave from
the Navy. Married in 1960, they eventually ended up in Cass
Lake where she still works as a librarian and teacher.
“My mother enjoyed herself in school, and she talked
about the friends she had made at the Normal School,” Judy
remembered. “The instructor for her class, a Miss Bell, was
somewhat of a ‘dragon,’ but Mom and her friends respected
her very much.
“When I started at Bemidji State, we visited the room in
Sanford where she stayed as a student. It was small and in
the basement, right outside of the area that was being used as
the student union. The room was being used as a closet.”
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Judy kept close ties to Bemidji State even before her son and
daughter enrolled. Being nearby, Judy and her mother were
able to make frequent trips to the campus. Both were amazed
how the school was constantly changing and growing.
“I was on the Lutheran Campus Council for several years,
and we have been to campus many times for plays, concerts and
classes,” she said. “The entryway to ‘Old Main’ (Deputy Hall)
has always been my cornerstone for directions on campus.”
Bemidji State University proved a nurturing environment
for the dreams of the Wirt and Hetteen families for over 80
years. Will the legacy continue? Dan and Linda have one
son, Noah age 8, and another child on the way.
The old maples just keep growing and getting stronger.
ALUMNI TRACK MEET PLANNED JANUARY 15
The Beaver track program will be conducting its third annual Alumni
Track Meet at 3 p.m. January 15, 2005, and is looking for participants.
The meet will pit an alumni team against a freshman team and an upper
class team of current Beaver Athletes. The old-timer team will be given
handicaps for the number of years since they last competed for BSU. They
will also receive extra points for wearing old BSU uniforms, sweats, and
letterman jackets, even if they don’t fi t.
A dinner on campus is scheduled for 7 p.m. with a tailgate party, sponsored
by Beaver Pride, to follow at the Northern Inn.
Interested individuals are asked to write or call to receive a registration
form. A form is available by contacting Craig Hougen, Bemidji State University
#29, 1500 Birchmont Drive NE, Bemidji, MN 56601 (218) 755-2883,
chougen@bemidjistate.edu. Registration deadline is January 8, 2005.
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Alumni Singers
Wanted
The Bemidji Alumni Choir
is looking for BSU choral program
alumni to become part
of a fun and fantastic choral
experience.
The ensemble has spots for
vocalists who want to reconnect
and be part of a quality
choir, have missed the camaraderie
of singing with a large
group, or have lost contact
with some of their harmonizing
friends.
The Bemidji Alumni Choir is
under the direction of Dr. Paul
Brandvik and Mark Sotebeer.
Rehearsals start at 7:15 p.m.
and last approximately 90
minutes at University Lutheran
Church of Hope, 601 13 Avenue
southeast in Minneapolis
in the Dinkytown area near the
University of Minnesota.
Rehearsals begin on February
10 and run through April
28 with a break on Thursday,
March 24. Spring concerts
are scheduled for April 30 and
May 1 in the Twin Cities.
For more information concerning
the choir, its schedule
or time commitment, email
bachoirdeb@yahoo.com.
In Memoriam
Leon Breuer (’80) – Rochester, MN
Nikki J. Doud (’66) – Aitken, MN
Ronald Louis Dremmel (’59) – Kemmerer, WY
Gerda J. Engebretson (’66) – Clearbrook, MN
Donald Erie (’60) – Bemidji, MN
Edward J. Farah (’76) – McGregor, MN
Byron L. Graves (’49) – Bemidji, MN
William F. Kirtland (’53) – Bemidji, MN
Lillie M. Kleven (’37) – Pleasant Hill, CA
Lucy Katherine Mitchell (’76) – Cass Lake, MN
Claude W. Morris (’49) – Spokane, WA
Carol Ann (Estes) Mortensen (’93) – Hines, MN
Stanley Ostrowski (’71) – Melrose, FL
Father Nathan Packard (’79) – Chokio, MN
Mark Kent Peterson (’91) – Bemidji, MN
Thomas A. Prescott (’64) – Sauk Rapids, MN
Beverly Stilwell (’83) – Godfrey, IL
Patrick Thomas Trihey (’65) – Bemidji, MN
Christine L. (Smith Jones) Woodcock (’72)
– Maple Grove, MN
AIRC Seeking
Book and Research
Donations
The American Indian Resource
Center is seeking donations of
books and research materials with
American Indian or Alaska Native
titles. Donors of books will be
acknowledged in each edition.
Questions can be forwarded by
calling the AIRC at 218-755-2094,
and donations can be sent to:
American Indian Resource Center,
Bemidji State University Box 21,
1500 Birchmont Drive NE, Bemidji,
MN 56601-2699.
Be part of the BSU Winter Rendezvous 2005! Plans are
shaping up for the Alumni Association’s Ninth Annual golf tournament
and winter celebration to be held March 19-21 in Laughlin, Nevada.
For more information, or to be put on the registration mailing
list, contact the alumni office at 877-278-2586 (toll free), 218-
755-3989 (local) or via email at alumni@bemidjistate.edu.