Pride of the Dakotas makes second trip to Rose Parade

The Pride of the Dakotas marching band spent the week after Christmas in California preparing to march in the five-mile long New Year’s Day Rose Parade.

The 333-member group also performed before nearly 15,000 people gathered for Bandfest at Pasadena City College. On another day, visitors to the amusement park at the Santa Monica Pier were treated to a 25-minute concert. SDSU alumni gathered earlier at an eatery on the Pier and delighted in the band’s performance that ended with “Ring the Bells” and “The Yellow and Blue.”

President and Marcia Chicoine watched performances at Bandfest, Santa Monica and the Rose Parade. Over 200 supporters joined the group for various activities in 62 to 70-degree southern California weather.

A log of trip activities and photos is available in a blog accessed from the SDSU home page, www3.sdstate.edu , by clicking on the Pride of the Dakotas hat logo. As of 10:30 a.m. Jan. 7, the blog had received over 37,000 views!

The Pride of the Dakotas marching band played “Sweet Land of Liberty” as they marched along Colorado Boulevard in the Pasadena Rose Parade. In between play and to the crowd’s delight, the group chanted “SDSU …
We’re from South Dakota … SDSU … not San Diego!”

Union to host workshop on managing money

The workshop, “Money Matters: Education to help you manage your money more effectively,” will be held in two sessions at The Union.

The first session will be held Jan. 29 at 12 noon in room 260 or Jan. 30 at 4 p.m. The session will cover budgeting basics. The second session will take place Feb. 12 at 4 p.m. in room 103 or Feb. 13 at 12 noon. The session will be about credit basics.

Donna Bittiker, a graduate student and an SDSU Extension Educator with Family and Consumer Sciences in Moody County, will present the workshop. The sessions are sponsored by TriO Student Support Services.

For more information, contact Laurie Johnson, TRiO retention advisor, 688-6653.

Election to seek member on Retirement Board of Trustees

An election will be held to select a Board of Regents’ faculty or administrative employee member for the South Dakota Retirement System Board of Trustees. The four-year term begins July 1.

If interested, the nominating petition form is available in the Human Resources Office or from the South Dakota Retirement System, Box 1098, 222 East Capitol St., Pierre, S.D. 57501-1098. Forms must be completed and filed in the office of the administrator of the SDRS by 5 p.m. on Feb. 22. Petitions received after that date will not be considered.

For more information, contact Louise Loban, 688-4128.

State vehicle drivers asked to conserve fuel

In order to conserve fuel, University Fleet & Travel asks state employees driving state-onwed vehicles to do the following:
• Utilize State Fueling Site more because of the lower bulk fuel cost.
• Do not waste fuel idling vehicles to warm up or cool down before using.
• Slow down driving speeds, thus reducing fuel use.

For questions, contact Judy Carlson, Motor Pool, 688-5518.

Library adds access to Nursing Legacy Archive

Many current nursing journals are available online, but adding access to the Nursing Legacy Archive makes older nursing journals also available online.

Remote access is important for distance students and this resource will make available more than 800,000 articles. The journal archive provides immediate access to the back files of more than 200 journals that have chronicled important breakthroughs in research and techniques in major clinical and medical specialties, including nursing, infectious disease, surgery, and cardiology.

Coverage of 200 journals spans Volume 1, Issue 1 through the final issue of 1999. It complements the LWW Total Access Collection to give both historical and current LWW journal resources.

For more information, contact the H.M. Briggs Library, 688-5107.

Cooperative Extension Service to host crop clinic

The South Dakota Cooperative Extension Service will host a crop clinic for Brookings area producers Jan. 18.

The event begins at 9 a.m. at the Brookings County Resource Center in the Swiftel Center. Several local businesses will sponsor the event and lunch will be served at midday for a nominal cost.

The clinic is the 28th annual event and will be dedicated to the memory of the late Mel Kloster, a longtime Brookings County Extension agronomy educator.

Several Extension specialists will provide answers to producer questions on row crops and cover a number of topics. They will include:
• SDSU Climatologist Dennis Todey will look at the weather outlook for 2008.
• Extension area marketing Specialist Alan May will talk on the 2008 row crop market.
• SDSU Soils Testing Lab Manager Ron Gelderman will discuss fertilizer cost management.
• Extension Weeds Specialist Mike Moechnig will speak on changes in weed control for 2008.
• Moody County Extension Agronomy Educator Paul O. Johnson will discuss soybean rust and its proximity to the area in 2007.
• Kingsbury County Extension Livestock Educator Tracey Renelt will give information on pesticide application training.

For more information, contact Paul O. Johnson, 605-977-2469, or the Brookings County Extension Office, 605-696-8280.

Annual I-29 Dairy Conference draws near

The third annual I-29 Dairy Conference will be held in three states Jan. 30-Feb. 1.

SDSU, along with Iowa State University, University of Minnesota, University of Nebraska, and their Extension services, will present the conference. Each day of the three-day event will take place in a different state and city.

The first day will be Jan. 30 at the Days Inn in Brookings. The Jan. 31 event will be held at Northwest Iowa Community College in Sheldon, Iowa, and the Feb. 1 event will be held at Minnesota West Community & Technical College in Pipestone, Minn.

Each day’s events begin at 9:30 a.m. with registration. Sessions will include: economic opportunities to improve reproduction; nutrition and connections to good reproductive performance; genetics and fertility with high-production dairy cows to include pure-breeding and cross-breeding; virtual dairy walk-through sessions; trouble-shooting reproductive performance sessions.

Each day’s events conclude at approximately 3:45 p.m. The cost is $20 per person and includes lunch. Registration is encouraged prior to Jan. 21.

The conference committee still is accepting sponsors to help subsidize the expenses that will benefit dairy producers of the four-state region.

Agencies and businesses can call Valerie Denison, 688-4116, for information about additional benefits of sponsoring the conference. Producers can call Denison to register or for more information on the conference.

South Dakota State University's Calendar of Events

This calendar is prepared by the Office of University Relations. For more information, to have campus events included in the next calendar, or to make address corrections, please contact April Clarin at University Relations, SCM 105, Box 2230, (605) 688-6161, or by email at april.clarin@sdstate.edu. Thank you.

Campus Kudos

Adjunct Professor Charles R. Berry Jr. was re-elected for a three-year term to the Board of Directors of the American Institute of Biological Science. Berry has taught fisheries science in the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences at SDSU since 1985.

The American Institute of Biological Sciences is a professional organization representing about 250,000 biologists in more than 200 professional biological organizations and museums across the country. Based in Washington, the institute is dedicated to promoting biology in every day life to serve science and society.

A Maryland native, Berry received his bachelor’s degree from Randolph-Macon College in Ashland, Va., master’s degree from Fordham University, and Ph.D. from Virginia Polytechnic Institute. Berry is an employee of the U.S. Geological Survey and leader of the survey’s South Dakota Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit at SDSU.

Joan Carey, secretary for the Office of Student Activities in The Union, is retiring after 23 years of service to SDSU. Her retirement is effective Jan. 18. A gathering in her honor is being planned. For more information, contact Jennifer Novotny, 688-4960.

The book “History of Fisheries and Fishing in South Dakota” rolled off the press in December. The book is intended for the general public, anglers, historians and students.

Twenty-seven authors contributed to the 477-page book, which has 23 chapters that deal equally with fishes, anglers and the aquatic habitat in South Dakota.

Editors are David Willis, new head of the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Science, and three scientists in the South Dakota Co-op Unit: Ken Higgins, Steven Chipp, and Chuck Berry.

Limited numbers of the book will be available free from each of the Game, Fish, and Parks regional offices. The book is for sale on the South Dakota Department of Game, Fish and Parks web site for $10. The book as a free download at http://wfs.sdstate.edu/ [External Hyperlink].

Three SDSU students received awards for their business plans and presentations at a competition held Dec. 13 at the Enterprise Institute.

The competition was the fruition of a business plan writing and competition course at SDSU. The event marked the third annual competition sponsored by Daktronics.

Kenan Huse, an economics-business major from Onida, was awarded the top prize of $750 for his Huse Pheasant Hunting Lodge business plan.

Megan Larson, an apparel merchandising major from Beresford, received second prize of $500 for her presentation and plan for Silver Fantasies, a sterling silver retail store that she plans to open in Sioux Falls.

Angela Bush, economics-business major and entrepreneurial studies minor from Hills, Minn. will use her third place prize of $250 as seed money for her dog breeding operation, Shakespeare Rottweilers Kennel.

Students in the course are also encouraged to participate in the Gover-
nor’s Giant Vision Student Business Plan Competition.

Judges for the competition were Larry Swain, SDSU entrepreneurship instructor; Belinda Engelhart, regional director for the South Dakota Small Business Development Center; Tim Weelborg, assistant director of finance at the Enterprise Institute; and Barb Heller, coordinator of the SDSU Entrepreneurship Program.

Winners of the 2007 SDSU student business plan writing competition are, from left, Megan Larson, Beresford; Kenan Huse, Onida; and Angela Bush, Hills, Minn.

To publicize an event or congratulations in “Newsline,” please submit information by the preceding Thursday at 2 p.m. to Kyle Johnson kyle.johnson@sdstate.edu or Jeanne Jones Manzer jeanne.jonesmanzer@sdstate.edu

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