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Dear Friends,
Through six years as a Dean and my first year as President at South Dakota State University, I have witnessed extraordinary generosity and commitment by our donors.
Those moments are seared in my memory, a constant reminder about the special people who help make our university great.
Let me share just one example. Several years ago, a farm family made a very generous commitment to the education and research facilities for both cow-calf and swine. We met with the couple, explaining the project and asking for their support.
They agreed to make a gift. Their words were every bit as meaningful as their financial support. “We want you to know this comes from a place of sacrifice, not of abundance.”
While it was the first time that I had heard it articulated in that manner, I know that sentiment applies to so many donors. Their sacrifice has allowed them to invest in our university and our students and faculty.
On behalf of a grateful university, thank you for being a member of the Sylvan Circle, SDSU’s legacy society.
Through a thoughtful process of reflection, you have declared SDSU to be an heir in your estate. That is a powerful reflection of your confidence in our University.
You are part of a very select, yet growing, group that has made the commitment of future support of SDSU through planned and deferred giving.
Again, thank you for being a member of Sylvan Circle and sharing your intention to leave a lasting impact on our university. Jane and I look forward to hosting Sylvan Circle members at the new President’s Home in September.
Sincerely,
Barry H. DunnPresident
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Planned giving ensures that the music keeps playing
Engineer’s gift ensures future of safe bridges
There’s no gift like home—Howards donate through Jackrabbits Land Legacy
Rawhide Trust helps ag producers slow down
Trust helps S.D. farmer fund retirement
Generosity impacts generations of engineers, nurses
Fan’s estate will help support SDSU basketball
Sylvan Circle Society
Campus Update
SDSU Foundation Gift Planning Office
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Planned giving ensures that the music keeps playing
Patricia Pierce planned for
some generous gifts to the
SDSU Music Department
through charitable gift
annuities, a charitable
trust, and a bequest in her
will. However, sometimes
planning her future giving
wasn’t enough for the music
lover. Impatience took over
and the Music Department
was the better for it.
“She used the word ‘now’
an awful lot,” said Music
Department Head David
Reynolds. “I want to enjoy
this now. I want to see
successes now.”
that’s had the distinction
for two years has used the
money in very different and
unique ways and I think that’s
the wonderful thing about
this. It’s not a cookie-cutter
kind of program.”
The current artist in
residence, Associate
Professor Aaron Ragsdale,
will use the money to fund
his participation in concerts
in New York City, Chicago
and Minneapolis. He has also
commissioned percussion
works from three composers
that Ragsdale will premiere.
“I’m using it to create some
music, to get out and perform
and expand the footprint of
the department and expand
the footprint of what we do
here,” Ragsdale said.
The expense of renting a
venue in New York City or
going it alone to commission
new works of music is far
beyond what Ragsdale could
normally afford.
“It is completely outside the
realm of anything I would
have been able to do on my
own,” Ragsdale said.
Professor Laura Diddle used
her award for international
travel. Part of the funding
helped defray her costs when
the concert choir went to
Spain.
The award also paid her
expenses to attend a
Conductors’ Institute
Program in Vancouver,
British Columbia, where she
Before her death on Sept.
1, 2016, Pierce was able to
enjoy seeing her funding
of the Artist in Residence
program change the
performance and educational
landscape in the Music
Department. Every two years
the endowment generates
$17,000 for the faculty
member deemed the Artist in
Residence.
“I think of it as being a
scholarly bucket list fund,”
Reynolds said. “Everybody
“Music is a little bit of heaven on earth. It can just heal all kinds of wounds.”
–Pat Pierce
Patricia Pierce and John Walker, first recipient of the Distinguished Artist-in-Residence award.
SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION THE SYLVAN CIRCLE 2016 98
worked with John Washburn,
the director of the Vancouver
Chamber Choir.
“I really learned a lot about
conducting techniques and
styles,” Diddle said. “It honed
my conducting technique in a
way that the students could
better read my direction
from the podium.”
Pierce’s generosity while she
was alive rejuvenated the
department’s aging fleet of
pianos. Music faculty offices
are also teaching studios
where professors offer
private lessons.
For the next incoming
freshman class, and many
to follow, Pierce’s estate
will fund eight $1,500
scholarships for music
majors.
“That fits right in with how
much she truly enjoyed
interacting with our students
at concerts,” Reynolds said.
“She hardly ever missed a
program when she was able
to travel.”
Traveling was a large part
of Pierce’s life before she
resettled in Brookings
in 2004. She grew up in
Brookings, graduating from
State in 1950 with a degree
in history.
“She thought it was very, very
important for folks to know
that the world was bigger
than Brookings and bigger
than South Dakota,” Reynolds
said.
The planned gifts from
Pierce will help bring the
world to Brookings with the
establishment of the Visiting
Artist Program.
“It’s going to bring world-
class musicians, cutting-edge
musicians to campus to
interact with our students
and then to ultimately
perform on campus,”
Reynolds said.
Pierce’s visitors would often
hear about the concerts she
attended in the great cultural
centers of Europe.
“It costs an awful lot to
send the choir to Europe,”
Reynolds said, “but if we
can bring some of the great
musicians and conductors
here, that’s a wonderful
equivalent to what she did in
her life.”
Later in life, Pierce was an
enduring presence at SDSU
concerts. At choral concerts,
Pierce was often in the
front row, conducting right
along with Diddle. After the
concert, she was the first
to praise students for their
work.
“All they ever heard from Pat
was, ‘You are magnificent.
You’re wonderful. You’re
fantastic musicians,’” Diddle
said. “It was very genuine.
You could see it on her face.”
Patricia Pierce visiting with SDSU music students.
Former SDSU President David Chicoine, Marcia Chicoine, Patricia Pierce, Dr. David Reynolds.
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Engineer’s gift ensures future of safe bridges
Arlen Ottman has been
building bridges all his life.
And his SDSU legacy will
ensure a future in which
bridges continue to be
plentiful and safe.
Ottman graduated in
1959 with a degree in
civil and environmental
engineering. That same
year he started working
for the bridge office in the
Minnesota Department of
Transportation. He retired
from the department 50
years later as principal
engineer.
“My basic work was in the
actual design of bridges,” said
Ottman, who explained that
three offices oversee bridges
on Minnesota state highways.
One office decides on the
need for a new or repaired
bridge while another makes
the preliminary designs.
“We would take the
preliminary plan and turn
it into a detailed plan a
contractor could work with,”
Ottman said.
Ottman supervised an office
that usually had six or seven
employees including two or
three drafters and a couple of
engineers.
Bridges must be constructed
according to Federal
Highway Administration
standards. Any work on
county or township bridges
that involves state funding
must also have their
specifications checked by
Ottman’s office.
Ottman, who moved back to
his hometown of Lemmon
when he retired, still works
as an adviser to a consultant
who works on Minnesota
bridge projects.
A lifetime in bridge building
informed Ottman’s decision
about how to give back
to his alma mater. He has
created the Arlen Ottman
Endowment for Civil
Engineering Education
that will help fund the
participation of SDSU
engineering students in the
American Society of Civil
Engineers Steel Bridge
Competition.
Like many alums, Ottman
knew he wanted to give, but
was uncertain how his gift
would work best.
“I kind of wanted it to fit
into the Civil Engineering
Department,” said Ottman,
who noted that the bridge
competition didn’t exist when
he was a student.
Bruce Nearhood, Senior Gift
Planning Officer at the SDSU
Foundation, suggested an
endowment that would help
fund students’ participation
in the bridge building
competition after learning
that Ottman had been a
judge during his career.
Nearhood explained that it’s
not uncommon for alumni to
need some direction on how
their gift could best benefit
SDSU.
“Sometimes the donor
already knows what they
want to impact,” Nearhood
said. “Other times they may
simply need an idea or help in
thinking bigger and showing
them how they can make
a bigger impact than they
thought they could.”
Ottman’s impact on the
civil engineering students
will last for generations.
His endowment will pay
for travel and materials for
SDSU students who enter
the regional competition.
In addition to currently
funding the endowment,
Ottman has named SDSU
to be the beneficiary of a
financial account that will
help fund the endowment far
into the future.
“They do need some financial
assistance, the students do,”
Ottman said.
The SDSU Civil Engineering steel bridge team preparing for competition.
Arlen Ottman
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Richard and Kathryn Howard
were determined to give to
the SDSU programs they
care about. To do that, they
used their vacation home
There’s no gift like home—Howards donate through Jackrabbits Land LegacyLand Legacy
JackrabbitsThe land is your legacy. SDSU understands that because it’s our legacy too.
“The university’s mission as an 1862 land-grant
institution remains the same,” said Dr. Barry H.
Dunn, SDSU’s 20th President. “To be a beacon of
opportunity, providing access to higher education,
championing the creation of knowledge and
understanding, and continuously expanding the
university’s reach. It starts with the land.”
By partnering with SDSU through the Jackrabbits
Land Legacy, you can make gifts of land, grain,
machinery, and other property to support
scholarships, research, athletics, and academic
programs in areas most important to you.
SDSU alumni and friends have already taken the
steps to gift their ownership of property in a variety
of ways that will impact future generations of
Jackrabbits.
in Arizona as a funding
mechanism for gifts to State.
Both 1962 graduates of
SDSU, the Howards have
deep ties to State. All six
of their children went to
SDSU, five of them on
ROTC scholarships. They
also count three of their
children’s spouses and three
grandchildren among family
members who attended
SDSU. No wonder the
Howards were the SDSU
Family of the Year in 1994!
Rick and Kay met at SDSU
after Rick transferred in
during his junior year from
St. John’s University in
Minnesota. They met at
a Halloween party at the
Newman Center where Kay
was bobbing for apples. Rick
got the idea that her red hair
would look even better if it
was wet.
“I pushed her head in a
bucket of water,” Rick said.
Obviously, she forgave him.
Rick transferred to SDSU
to get him closer to home
because his help was
needed at the family
business in Blunt. The family
International Harvester
business was established in
Blunt in 1899.
“We had everything from
teacups to iron,” Rick said.
Richard and Kathryn Howard’s photos from the 1962 Jackrabbit yearbook.
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“What they get out of it is an immediate tax deduction,” Littlecott said. “The lower federal interest rates are, the higher your tax
deduction. So now is the best time ever to do a life estate.”
He also went on to run a
retail seed business for 36
years. In 1976, he started
farming a few quarters of
land that his father had
owned, ending his farming
career with 2,000 acres.
Kay balanced her role as the
mother of six with her job as
a full-time substitute teacher
in Blunt and Onida.
Their years in Blunt were
busy with work and family.
Rick was the fire chief and a
first responder for 22 years.
He also served on the city
council.
In retirement, the couple first
traveled to Arizona in 2000,
eventually buying a winter
home in Surprise. They live
in Blunt from April through
Thanksgiving.
In Arizona, Rick plays golf
two or three times a week
and volunteers at spring
training baseball games
where he parks cars for the
Kansas City Royals and the
Texas Rangers.
“By the second inning, I can
go watch the ballgame,” Rick
said.
Their Arizona home has
become an integral part of
their giving to SDSU. The
Howards are currently
supporting a scholarship
endowment to help students
in the College of Arts and
Sciences who are part of
the ROTC program. The
gift of their vacation home,
called a life estate, along
with a separate estate
bequest, will enhance their
endowed scholarship, help
the economics, history and
music departments as well
as the Rodeo Club and SDSU
Athletics well into the future.
To form the life estate, the
Howards deeded their home
to the SDSU Foundation,
realizing an immediate tax
deduction. The Howards get
to use the home throughout
their lives, agreeing to pay
property taxes, upkeep and
fees.
Marc Littlecott, Director of
Gift Planning at the SDSU
Foundation, cautions that life
estates are irrevocable. Once
a donor decides to create
a life estate, however, the
benefits are plentiful.
“What they get out of it is an
immediate tax deduction,”
Littlecott said. “The lower
federal interest rates are, the
higher your tax deduction. So
now is the best time ever to
do a life estate.”
Once the Howards no longer
have need of the house, the
Foundation will likely sell
the property and use the
proceeds to fund a variety
of the Howards’ interests at
State.
Rick got his degree in
economics and Kay’s was in
history. Those departments
will benefit as well as the
Music Department where
Kay participated in vocal
music. They both have a soft
spot for SDSU Athletics.
Rick served as publicity
chairman for the SDSU
Rodeo Club and it will benefit
as well.
It turns out that Rick was
more interested in publicity
than he was in being a
cowboy. He would dress as
a rodeo clown for the Hobo
Day parade, but that was as
close as he got to the action.
“I was smart enough not to
get on one of those animals,”
Rick said.
Don’t try to heap praise
on the Howards for their
generosity. Kay sums up their
philosophy best: “That’s what
you’re supposed to do.”Richard and Kathryn Howard
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Rawhide Trust helps ag producers slow down
Allen and Becky Walth are
the type of people who will
probably never retire. They
do plan to slow down, though.
Allen and Becky, who farm
and ranch near the Missouri
River, credit the Rawhide
Trust for allowing them the
capital to semi-retire without
seeing a large portion of their
lifetime of work make its way
to the IRS.
“We don’t know if we’re going
to really retire,” the Walths
said, “but we plan to slow
down by renting out most of Allen and Rebecca (Becky) Walth
the farm/ranch since neither
of our two children plan on
returning and taking over the
operation.”
Allen and Becky have a
diversified farm/ranch where
they grow corn, soybeans,
wheat and hay as well as
running a 350-head cow/calf
operation.
The Walth place is located in
north central South Dakota.
Allen’s grandfather bought
some of the land in 1917 and
it’s been in the family ever
since.
Looking for a way to dial
back their work on the farm
and still support themselves,
the Walths met with Marc
Littlecott, Director of Gift
Planning at the SDSU
Foundation. Littlecott
introduced them to the
Rawhide Trust, a way to turn
tangible personal property
into income.
“Ninety-eight percent of
people’s worth is in non-cash
assets,” Littlecott said. “Yet
most people, when they give
to a charity, guess what they
give, a check or cash.”
The Walths deeded livestock
to the trust and plan on
deeding grain in the future.
“They gave it to a charitable
trust,” Littlecott said.
“Basically, they gave it to
charity.”
The trust, in turn, sold the
livestock, bypassing the large
hit the Walths would have
taken on their federal taxes.
“It’s a big tax savings if
you liquidate a lot of your
farm assets without having
to give a large portion
to the government and
still providing a source of
retirement income,” Allen
said.
The trust will pay the Walths
until they pass and then
pay their two children for
another 20 years. Called a
charitable remainder trust,
the remainder will go to
SDSU.
The Walth property near the Missouri River.
SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION THE SYLVAN CIRCLE 2016 1918
The largest percentage
will go to the College of
Agriculture and Biological
Sciences where Allen got his
degree in animal science. A
portion will also go to the
College of Education and
Human Sciences in honor
of Becky’s degree in home
economics.
Other recipients will be the
College of Pharmacy and
Allied Health Professions
to honor their daughter,
a pharmacy graduate,
and to the Department of
Agricultural and Biosystems
Engineering to honor their
son, an ag engineering
graduate.
Allen said the process for
setting up the trust seemed
overwhelming at first but
really wasn’t that difficult.
Since Rawhide Trusts are
relatively new, the Walth’s
attorney was not familiar
with how to set it up.
That’s where Littlecott came
in, serving as a technical
resource.
“Giving assets is a little more
complex,” Littlecott said. “It’s
off the usual radar for most
people and often it’s off the
radar for tax planners and
advisers, too.”
With their Rawhide Trust in
place, the Walths have some
traveling on their radar.
“We’ll never fully retire,
but slow down,” the Walths
said, “do some traveling
and attend as many SDSU
festivities as possible.”
Charitable Remainder Trust funded with Tangible Personal Property:
Also known as a “Rawhide Trust”, this kind of
charitable remainder trust (CRT) is commonly
funded with grain, livestock, or equipment. The
CRT will pay a variable quarterly income based
on a fixed percentage of the trust fair market
value. By selling tangible property within a CRT,
one can defer the ordinary income from the sale
to the quarterly income payments over a term of
years, or a lifetime.
Rawhide Trust
Gift of assets
Income + deduction
Remainder to the SDSU Foundation
DONOR
Trust helps S.D. farmer fund retirement
If you live in South Dakota,
don’t be surprised if you see
Dennis and Dorothy Bietz in
your town soon. One of the
things on Dennis’ retirement
bucket list is visiting every
town in South Dakota.
“That’s something I read in
South Dakota Magazine,”
Dennis said. “There are many
things in South Dakota we’re
not aware of.”
The ability to travel the
state—and play more golf—
was made available when
Dennis and Dorothy funded
their retirement from
farming by establishing a
charitable remainder trust or
“Rawhide Trust” with the help
of the SDSU Foundation.
The trust will help fund the
Bietz’ retirement before
ultimately being donated to
the College of Agriculture
and Biological Sciences.
The creation of the trust
started with Dennis and his
quest to retire from farming
without making a significant
investment in federal taxes.
“When you’re trying to retire
from farming, it’s difficult,”
said Dennis, who bought
the farm near Olivet from
his grandparents in the
mid-1940s. “It causes tax
consequences.”
Dennis and Dorothy Bietz
SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION THE SYLVAN CIRCLE 2016 2120
Patent attorneys are lifelong
learners. Each invention
they deal with presents new
challenges in understanding
the latest technology. A
patent attorney has to learn
enough about an invention
to prepare a document
with enough detail to teach
others how to duplicate the
inventive concept.
Bruce Lutz took the
inquisitive nature he
developed as a patent
attorney and trained it on
his plan for giving to his alma
mater. His discovery led to a
method of charitable giving
that was so innovative and
unusual, that Marc Littlecott,
Director of Gift Planning at
the SDSU Foundation, had
only seen it executed one
other time.
According to Littlecott,
Bruce wanted to guarantee
a certain payout to his heirs:
two sons, a daughter-in-law
and four grandchildren.
Once the estate plan for
Bruce and his wife, Gloria,
takes effect, a charitable gift
annuity will be funded for
each heir that will provide
a fixed quarterly income
distribution for his or her life
beginning at age 65.
Generosity impacts generations of engineers, nurses
Bruce and Gloria Lutz
Dennis wanted to fund
his retirement, avoid tax
consequences and help
favorite causes like SDSU.
To do that, he gifted grain
and farm equipment to a
“Rawhide Trust”.
Dennis had read about
charitable trusts in farm
magazines and had attended
a church seminar on the
topic. With retirement
looming and favorable
prices on grain, Dennis
was ready to act, but the
original organization that
was handling his trust was
bogged down in red tape.
That’s when Dennis turned
to Marc Littlecott, Director
of Gift Planning at the SDSU
Foundation. Usually when
Littlecott first works with
interested friends, they
need a little education about
charitable trusts. That wasn’t
the case with Dennis.
“He knew his stuff,” Littlecott
said. “He was already
rounding third base and
heading for home.”
That “stuff” included the
advantage of donating
tangible personal property—
grain, livestock, farm
equipment—to a charitable
remainder trust. When
that property is sold, the
proceeds are invested within
the trust and bypass U.S. tax
collectors.
“When you’re giving assets
like tangible personal
property, not to mention
land, stocks or things other
than cash, your giving
potential is usually a lot
greater,” Littlecott said.
“There are a lot of tax
incentives that are available.”
Dennis was also looking
for speed. The other
organization had been
working on his trust for
a year. He said the SDSU
Foundation got it done in a
week.
“Within a week, the trust was
set up,” said Dennis, who was
pleased that he could use
his own attorney during the
process. “The timeliness was
great. It was quick and easy
to do.”
The Bietz trust will pay
an income to Dennis and
Dorothy throughout their
lives and the remainder will
be split between SDSU and
their church.
Bietz farm near Olivet, SD.
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“Bruce kind of chided me
for not first suggesting the
complex plan I eventually
developed for him,” Littlecott
said, explaining that when the
heirs pass, SDSU will get the
annuities.
Bruce and Gloria’s
grandchildren are in their
30s and 40s. “We can
guarantee the heirs a pretty
high payout,” Littlecott said.
“We’ve got all those years of
tax-free growth.”
From engineer to attorney
Bruce graduated from SDSU
in 1958 with a degree in
electrical engineering. He
went to work for General
Mills in Minneapolis where
he met Gloria.
“My supervisor said any
engineer could greatly
benefit from one year of law
school,” Bruce said. During
the first year of law school he
responded to a Honeywell
patent department ad
offering free law school
tuition and accepted a job
there as a patent trainee and
eventually obtaining a Senior
Patent Attorney position.
“The only way you can be
a realistically competent
patent attorney is to
have a good engineering
background,” Bruce said.
Later he decided to move to
a warmer climate in Dallas,
TX where he worked for
various corporation patent
departments before deciding
to retire from a directors’
position in corporate
practice and do patent
law independently. He still
handles a small amount of
patent work.
“I have thoroughly enjoyed
patent work,” Bruce said.
“Every idea that comes along
gives me further education.”
A gift for engineering
The solid education he
received in engineering
brought Bruce back to SDSU
when he was considering
his estate plan. A prolific
reader, Bruce learned about
biomedical engineering and
was struck by the ways his
original profession was aiding
in health care.
Since Bruce’s graduation,
State started a minor in
biomedical engineering.
“It’s a fascinating field,” said
Dr. Lew Brown, Dean of
the Jerome J. Lohr College
of Engineering. Brown has
a doctorate in biomedical
engineering, started the
minor and was its first
coordinator. “It’s one I’ve
been passionate about for
years.”
Students who enroll in the
minor, usually electrical or
mechanical engineering
majors, also take courses that
build their knowledge of the
life sciences.
“A typical biomedical
engineer can converse with
the physician,” Brown said.
“They have the anatomy
and the physiology. They
have enough background
in biomechanics,
bioinstrumentation
to basically apply the
engineering skills they’ve
acquired to medical
problems.”
Brown notes that the minor
is popular with top academic
students, especially women.
“It’s really attracted some
of our best students
in engineering here at
SDSU,” Brown said of the
minor. “They’ve been very
successful going off to
the world’s top research
institutions and graduate
schools.”
A portion of the significant
Lutz gift will fund
scholarships for students
interested in biomedical
engineering. Another portion
will be used for what Brown
calls “funds for excellence.”
Those funds will be used for
conferences, speakers, travel
or new equipment for labs.
“Funds for excellence means
student enrichment funds,”
Brown said. “Basically
funds that can enhance the
biomedical engineering area.”
A gift for nursing
According to Nursing
Dean Nancy Farhenwald,
as Bruce and Gloria Lutz
were deciding how to give
to SDSU, they hit on giving
to the College of Nursing
because, like many people
their age, they are consumers
of health care. Bruce was
particularly interested in the
SDSU Nursing students
Bruce Lutz visits with SDSU Biomedical Engineering students during a recent campus visit.
SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION THE SYLVAN CIRCLE 2016 2524
college’s Doctor of Nursing
Practice program.
“Bruce learned about the
DNP in his prolific reading,”
Farhenwald said. “He saw
our focus on rural and
underserved populations.”
Farhenwald explained that
underserved populations can
include health care inequities
caused by geography, social
circumstances or poverty.
Members of underserved
populations can include
refugees, minorities, children,
the homebound and the
elderly.
“The underserved are often
the populations that don’t
have a voice,” Farhenwald
said. “Representing that voice
and ensuring access to care
resonated with Bruce.”
During the course of his
inquiry about the DNP
program, Bruce visited the
College of Nursing.
“He saw what we were
doing in the area of
telehealth care, developing
competencies among our
family nurse practitioner
students to deliver care
to distant patients via
telecommunications as a way
to address health inequities
or healthcare access,
especially for underserved
populations,” Farhenwald
said. “I think he was especially
inspired by that.”
As part of a health care team,
DNPs offer personal health
care but they are also trained
to look beyond the patient
to consider the health of the
population.
“The DNPs are prepared to
look at population health
care data, make decisions
about gaps in care and apply
research evidence and
examine outcomes to make
sure that it’s having an impact
on patients,” Farhenwald said.
Both deans grateful and
humbled
Brown knows it’s not likely
he’ll still be the dean when
the Lutz estate makes its
way to the Jerome J. Lohr
College of Engineering. He
knows, however, that there
will always be a need for
biomedical engineers.
“What’s hot today may not
be hot tomorrow,” Brown
said, “but I guarantee we’re
“I am honored and humbled by their generosity,” Farhenwald said. “Their passion and their investment is paying off well into
perpetuity and that’s the whole focus of planned giving.”
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all going to need health care
and we’re all going to need
continuing breakthroughs in
health care forever.”
Brown described the
generosity of Bruce and
Gloria Lutz as “mind-
boggling.”
“He’s paying forward
generations, in perpetuity,
generations of engineering
students interested in
biomedical engineering and
nursing are going to benefit
from this pay-ahead gift,”
Brown said.
The College of Nursing
is already reaping the
benefits of the Lutz family’s
generosity as they have
endowed scholarships for
DNP students. As they did
in the engineering college,
the Lutzes have provided
the nursing dean with an
excellence fund.
“Bruce and Gloria did it right
for a dean,” Farhenwald
said. “They know that to add
value we have to support our
students to extend beyond
the educational objectives of
the program.”
Like Brown, Farhenwald has
a tough time comprehending
the generosity of Bruce and
Gloria Lutz.
“I am honored and humbled
by their generosity,”
Farhenwald said. “Their
passion and their investment
is paying off well into
perpetuity and that’s the
whole focus of planned
giving.”
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better,” Troy said. “We love
following them both.”
A portion of his estate will go
to both teams with no other
restrictions on how it can be
spent.
“As the needs of our student-
athletes and coaches
continue to evolve, so too,
will our funding needs in
order to remain competitive
both regionally and
nationally,” said Scott Brown,
Senior Associate Athletic
Director for Development.
“The flexibility and discretion
that Troy has provided the
department will allow his gift
to serve the greatest need at
that time.”
Troy has a simple explanation
for including SDSU in his will:
“I’m just a big basketball fan.”
Fan’s estate will help support SDSU basketball
Fans of SDSU sports have
different ways of showing
their support. Some buy
Jackrabbit gear. Others have
season tickets to the games.
Others follow the Jacks
faithfully on the radio or
Internet.
Troy Anderson does all that
and more, earmarking one-
fourth of his estate for the
SDSU men’s and women’s
basketball programs.
A 1990 graduate who
majored in agronomy, Troy
turned 49 in February. Some
might think that’s a little
young for estate planning.
“I was basically getting my
ducks in a row,” said Troy,
“just making sure we have
everything on paper.”
Before it got on paper, it had
to be discussed with his wife
and his grown children. The
kids were fine with his gift to
SDSU.
“They said, ‘Hey, Dad, it’s
your money.’”
Though he’s a big basketball
fan now, Troy, originally from
Albert Lea, Minn., showed up
at SDSU with a hockey stick
and skates. He played club
hockey for State.
A senior sales representative
for Mycogen Seeds, Troy
got his lessons in how to
be a basketball fan from his
father-in-law, Jerry Busick.
“You just grabbed your cow
bell and followed him,” Troy
said. “It was so much fun.”
It was Busick’s philosophy,
and one that Troy continues
to follow, that the SDSU
student-athletes were more
than a team, they were family.
“You follow their young
adulthood,” Troy said. “That
was Jerry’s philosophy.”
Troy’s fondest memory
of SDSU basketball is a
women’s game against Penn
Troy Anderson and Jerry Busick
State. Jerry’s health had
deteriorated. He needed a
walker to get to his seat on
the floor and needed help
standing for the National
Anthem.
Busick asked for help
standing again, this time to
cheer at the end of the game
when the Jacks won.
“He was so excited,” Troy
said. “That was his last game.
That is the highlight of all my
games.”
With the assistance of his
attorney and the SDSU Gift
Planning team, Troy has
directed in his will that the
money go to both the men’s
and women’s basketball
programs.
“There’s no one team that’s Troy Anderson cheering on the Jackrabbits.
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at the President’s Home.
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Wayne J. and Donna R. Viitanen
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Cathrene M. Voelzke
Joseph P. Vogel
Theodore G. WaaleGarry A. Waba
Faye WadeWilliam S. and Nancy Wadsworth
Richard C. and
LaRayne F. Wahlstrom
Mark T. and Kathryn A. Walker
Solveig A. Walstrom
Allen L. and Rebecca L. Walth
Wayne W. and Ruth M. WaltzRaymond F. Walz
James J. Wassom
Marvin E. and Corinne N. Wastell
William A. Weaver
Keith C. Wein
L. Elaine Wendt
Robert and Mary I. WestergardCarolyn M. Wheelock
Nancy E. Wickman
Robert R. and
Roberta E. Wickmann
Zeno W. Wicks, III and
Roxanne Savaryn-Wicks
Harold and Lois Widvey
William H. Wiederich
Sheridan E. WikleRobert A. and Barbara M. WilkensVicky J. Wilkey
Calvin E. and Lynne Willemssen
Maxine V. WilliamsPerry W. and Dora M. Williams
Warren E. and
Dorothy G. Williamson
Myrna Hennrich Williamson
Sidney P. Williamson
Robert W. and Eveleen A. Wilson
Patricia A. Wilson Pease
John R. and Mary F. Winkle
Verne J. and Bonita L. Winter
Paul and K. Gay Witherington
Virgil H. WintrodeRichard F. and
Kathleen M. Wojcik
Eldon W. Wollmann
Winston W. and Mary A. Wolpert
Walter W. and Yvonne Wosje
James V. and Penny L. Woster
Glenda F. Wurster
Anson and Ada May YeagerJeffery B. Young
Roger R. and Dorothy L. YoungRoger L. and Helen K. Zebarth
Stephen M. Zebarth
John Zilverberg
Paul R. and Audrey E. Zimmer
Stanley J. Zimmer
Thomas W. and Lynne Zimmer
Darrell L. Zimmerman
Jo Ann M. Zwanziger
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A Successful Community Partnership: The current facility draws
more than 130,000 visitors annually. With the addition of two
significant performance spaces, this number could triple. The
225-seat Recital Hall will host more than 90 recitals annually and
accommodate the Brookings Chamber Music Society concerts. The
850-seat proscenium theater will offer a significantly enhanced
environment for visitors and performers.
The facility will house SDSU’s emerging School of Performing Arts
where more than 1,000 current students participate as performers.
While the public will enjoy performances in the new Recital Hall and
Proscenium Theatre, the entire facility is academic space.
The expansion is scheduled to be completed by January 2019.
A DESTINATION FACILITY FOR ENTERTAINMENT AND PERFORMING ARTS EDUCATION
South Dakota State University was transformed from a modest tract of land northeast of town that residents bought in 1881 by pooling together $647.50.
Every generation since has witnessed growth that’s turned our “College on
the Hill” into a dynamic, sprawling campus and the state’s largest and most-
comprehensive institution of higher learning.
A new Alumni Center will be attached to the Jerome J. Lohr building that
serves as home to the Foundation. It will put the Foundation and Alumni
Center under the same roof again for the first time in more than 30 years.
The President’s Home will be the new home for presidents of SDSU, with
generous indoor and outdoor entertaining spaces.
ALUMNI GREEN
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SDSU names Hedge provost and vice president for academic affairs
Pharmacy grads rank second in nation
SDSU Local Foods Education Center
Athletics Update The Human Anatomy and Cadaver Laboratory Expansion
All 76 graduating SDSU pharmacy students from the class of 2016
passed the required professional exam in order to be licensed as a
pharmacist and 75 of them did it on the first attempt.
That 98.68 percent first-time passage rate ranks second in the nation,
barely trailing the University of Washington, which had 98.94 percent
of its 94 graduates pass the North American Pharmacist Licensure
Examination on their first attempt.
Nationally, the marks dropped sharply in 2016 with a first-time
passage rate of 85.86 compared to 92.64 in 2015, 94.88 in 2014 and
95.87 in 2013.
Since SDSU’s first entry-level Pharm.D. class graduated in 1998, there
have been 1,117 students take the exam with 1,110 passing on the
first try (99.4 percent). There were only three other years—2006,
2011 and 2014—when SDSU wasn’t at 100 percent and in those years
its first-time pass rate was 94.7, 97.0 and 98.7 percent, respectively.
Dennis Hedge, a member of the South
Dakota State University faculty and staff
since 1992, has been selected provost and
vice president for academic affairs of the
institution following a six-month national
search.
“It is with great pleasure I welcome Dennis
into this very important position on a
full-time basis,” said SDSU President Barry
Dunn. “This was an extremely thorough
and competitive search process, and I thank
everyone on campus and in the community
who was involved.
“Dennis is a proven leader who is respected
by his peers, and he will elevate the
university to another level in this role,”
Dunn added. “It became clear during this
process that his energy and understanding
of higher education in the state and region
will be a benefit to all of us at SDSU.”
The Department of Plant Science is
building a new 1.3-acre teaching and
learning facility to foster student learning
in local foods production.
The Local Foods Education Center is
based on a foundation of student learning,
ecosystem sustainability, and consumer
access to a safe and stable food supply.
“There is increased public awareness of
the source of the food we eat and the
reliability of its safety. These are highly
emotional issues for today’s consumers
and are drivers of change. That is why
local foods production has become a core
of our horticulture curriculum,” says David
Wright, SDSU Plant Science department
head
Innovation LabDid you know….
> Approximately 30% of first-year college students in South
Dakota require remediation in Math or English or both.
> In 2015, 40% of South Dakota teaching vacancies were
unfilled.
South Dakota State University, the PAST Foundation
(Columbus, Ohio), the Brookings Economic Development
Corporation, the Brookings School District, and neighboring
districts are working on plans to combine programs and
expertise to develop an Innovation Lab that provides both
a concept and space to experiment with new models of
educational instructional design and delivery. These models
will include integrating content across subject areas, utilizing
new technologies, and working with community and industry
partners to design and solve real world problems. This model
of teaching and learning will reflect the unique culture, needs
and expertise of each community in which it resides. It will
allow students, teachers, and pre-service teachers to engage
together in ongoing critical thinking, problem solving and
communication.
SDSU won its first-ever Missouri Valley Football
Conference title in the inaugural season of the
Dana J. Dykhouse Stadium, marking another
exceptional year for academic and athletic
success within the program.
The football team was ranked 6th in a year-end
poll, its highest final ranking since moving to
Division I.
The men’s basketball team qualified for its
fourth NCAA tournament in six years. The
women’s basketball team made the post-season
for its 11th consecutive year. Wrestlers drew
all-time record home crowds and produced its
first two All-Americans in the Division I era.
SDSU hosted The Summit League
Championships for indoor track – another
first for the university – thanks to the Sanford-
Jackrabbit Athletic Complex. All-conference,
all-tournament and all-academic honors were
prevalent throughout SDSU’s 19 different
sports.
The SDSU Human Anatomy and Cadaver
Laboratory Expansion will enhance
undergraduate and graduate students’
opportunities for critical hands-on dissection
and learning in multiple pre-professional
and other medical-related disciplines.
The enhanced laboratory environments
will foster students’ abilities to develop
important skillsets that will continue to
make them competitive regionally and
nationally for careers and for graduate and
professional programs.
On average, more than 750 students
annually from a wide range of undergraduate
majors and programs will be impacted by the
Human Anatomy and Cadaver Laboratory
Expansion. The expansion will also impact
current and future graduate programs.
We are preparing for the future as well as
improving these lab environments for our
current students.
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THE SDSU FOUNDATION GIFT PLANNING OFFICE
We are excited to highlight a newly published guide for friends and alumni of SDSU that are interested in creating or leaving an estate gift for SDSU. The guide has been designed to help in the decision making process and to highlight important questions that need to be answered for an estate gift to have the impact you intend on campus.
Contact the Gift Planning Office for a copy today.Planning an
Estate Gift for SDSU
A guide for Friends and Alumni Interested in Creating or Leaving a Legacy at
South Dakota State University
Marc Littlecott, CAP®
Director of Gift PlanningBrookings Office 605-697-7475 ext. 1017Marc.Littlecott@SDStateFoundation.org
Bruce Nearhood, CFP®
Senior Gift Planning OfficerRapid City Office605-697-7475 ext. 1018Bruce.Nearhood@SDStateFoundation.org
Carolyn PossGift Planning Coordinator605-697-7475 ext. 1027Carolyn.Poss@SDStateFoundation.org
Our Gift Planning team is your expert resource in:
• Estate Planning Ȥ Proper will, trust, and beneficiary language Ȥ Zero-tax estate planning Ȥ “Give-it-Twice” estate planning
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