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BSC selects alumnus of the year
The Bismarck State College National Alumni Association has chosen North Dakota Secretary of State Al Jaeger, '63, for the 2009 Alumni of the Year Award.Trustees selected Jaeger for his professional achievements in business and public service and continued leadership in the state and community.
The college will recognize him at a dinner May 14 in the BSC Student Union and during commencement May 15. For dinner reservations, call 224-5692 or 1-800-272-2586 by May 8.
Jaeger is serving his fifth term as North Dakota's 14th secretary of state. He won election in 1992 and oversees a clearinghouse of paperwork that relates to elections, petitions and campaign disclosures; legislative bill filings; business charters and record filings; contractor licensing; registration of lobbyists; custodianship of official state documents, and much more.
He is the state's chief election officer and athletic commissioner for boxing and martial arts and has assigned membership on several government agency boards.
Active in the National Association of Secretaries of State, Jaeger has served on the executive, budget, and awards and publications committees. He is credited with reviving the "North Dakota Blue Book," a biennial reference compendium, whose 2007-2009 edition won a Notable Documents Award from the National Conference of State Legislatures.
A Beulah native, Jaeger was a high school teacher, served in the North Dakota Army National Guard, and spent 20 years as a real estate broker in Fargo. He owned the Gallery of Homes Realty Center in Fargo and then joined Metro Realtors. The F-M Area Association of Realtors named him Realtor of the Year in 1980.
Jaeger has a BS in business education and a minor in speech from Dickinson State University and did post-graduate studies at University of North Dakota and Montana State University.
The May 14th dinner begins with a 6 p.m. social followed by dinner and a program at 6:30 p.m. in the BSC Student Union Missouri Room. Tickets are $20. Make checks payable to the BSC Alumni Association and mail to BSC Alumni Association, P.O. Box 5587, Bismarck, N.D. 58506-5587. Guests are welcome to bring cards or letters or mail them with the reservation and payment.
Nies, Fornshell share BSC Rising Star Award
Alumni in the fields of musical composition and technical consulting have earned recognition from the Bismarck State College National Alumni Association.Sharing the 2009 Rising Star Alumni Award are composer Troy Nies, '96 and '04, of Killdeer, N.D., and Jon Fornshell, '93, of Williamsburg, Va.
Fornshell founded Fornshell Consulting, Inc. in 2001 and provides Fortune 1000 companies with PeopleSoft and Oracle experts to help implement and upgrade their software systems. Among his clients are Price-Waterhouse Coopers and Nextel.His career began at Cargill Financial Markets Group (CFMC) in Minneapolis, where he was a PeopleSoft developer, technical team leader and project manager from 1996 to 2001. He oversaw PeopleSoft implementations for CFMC bureaus in London and Singapore. Since 2003, he has been part of a Cargill, Inc. technical team that maintains a PeopleSoft Financials 8.8 system for CFMC and designs business solutions in 18 countries. He has earned Cargill's Going Above and Beyond Award six times.
Fornshell has a bachelor's degree in business administration/information management from the University of North Dakota. In 1993, he was named to the All-Region and All-Mon-Dak basketball team and led the Mystics to sixth place at nationals. He volunteers for Habitat for Humanity and Big Brothers Big Sisters.
Nies composes music for film, stage, orchestra and a variety of commercial media. He also orchestrates and composes music for Dark Adventure Radio Theatre. Nies has received numerous commissions to create scores and incidental music for the classic horror film genre, including works by H.P. Lovecraft and the "Diabolical Tales" film series. He also created a work for Bismarck's Missouri Valley Chamber Orchestra.Classically trained in piano, Nies began composing while studying music at BSC. He has a BA in music with focus on composition and piano performance from Dickinson State University. Nies maintains his studio in Killdeer, where he is lead emergency medical technician for the Dunn County paramedic team and a volunteer fire fighter. He presented at the statewide 2008 Arts and Humanities Summit at BSC and as an ArtsQuest guest artist in 2006.
The Rising Star Alumni Award began in 2007 and honors alumni under age 40 who have shown exceptional achievement in their career, public or volunteer service, or have attained a position of distinction.
Nies and Fornshell will receive their recognition at the annual BSC Alumni Awards Dinner May 14. For tickets and information, contact Rita Nodland at 701-224-5692, or Rita.Nodland@bsc.nodak.edu.
Recipients of the Alumni of the Year Award
Since 1978, thirty-five alumni have been named alumni of the year.2008 - Dr. Cheryl (Senger) Elsbernd, '81
David Farnsworth, '75
2007 Chuck Suchy '68
2006 Linda Falkman '68
2005 Gary E. Johnson '63
2004 Michael Wickstrom '53
2003 Dr. Charles E. Murry '79
2002 Pat Dirk (1969) and Rich Karlgaard '74
2001 Tim Holtan '74 and Tony Welder '58.
2000 Gerald Skogley '54 and Linda Juhala '62
1999 LaVonn Boehm Steiner '62
1998 Frank Koch '62
1997 Morris Tschider '52 and Irene Boehm Tschider '57
1996 Bert Gerhart '61
1995 Harley Swenson '61
1994 J. Michael McCormack '62
1993 Warren Arman '62
1992 Dalles Krause '53
1991 Barbara Gibbons Evanson '64
1990 Edwin Edlund '41 and Dorothy Mueller Edlund '41
1989 Rod Tjaden '61
1988 Dr. Lawrence Watson '67
1987 U.S. Navy Commander Lee Gurke '66
1986 Patricia Higgins Caudel '51
1985 Dennis Meyer '58
1984 Gordon Weiss '69
1983 Ev Miller '55
1982 Dr. Curtis Juhala '61
1981 Tom Jordan '54
1980 Beulah Hedahl '41
1979 Tom Baker '41
1978 Ted Boutrous '41; Mary Moses Schwichtenberg '43; and, Myron Atkinson '47
