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Dr. Marcus Stanley Zuber was born on January 10, 1912, in Gettysburg, South Dakota, to John and Mary Maas Zuber. He earned a bachelor’s degree in agriculture from South Dakota State University in Brookings, followed by a master’s degree and Ph.D. in agronomy from Iowa State University in Ames. Zuber served as professor emeritus of agronomy at the University of Missouri-Columbia and worked as a research agronomist for the U.S. Department of Agriculture from 1946 to 1970.

A leading figure in corn breeding, Dr. Zuber was recognized for developing techniques and genetically improved inbred lines that were widely adopted by hybrid corn breeders. His work significantly advanced the development of single-cross hybrids, notably through the release of lines such as Mo17. His innovations in measuring root and stalk strength became valuable tools in both public and private breeding programs.

Dr. Zuber was active in academic and community life. He served as the first faculty advisor to Beta Sigma Psi, Iota Chapter, at the University of Missouri from 1963 to 1979, and was a member of the Campus Lutheran Church, the Golden K Kiwanis Club, the Association of Retired Agricultural Professors, and several professional organizations. He received numerous honors, including the University of Missouri Faculty Alumni Award in 1972 and the Outstanding Educator of America award in 1973. In 1983, South Dakota State University awarded him an honorary Doctor of Science degree.

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Gertrude Stickney Young (September 14, 1883–January 1965) was born in Sioux Falls, Dakota Territory, to Emma and Sutton Young, the first Speaker of the South Dakota House of Representatives. She earned her bachelor’s degree from the University of Wisconsin in 1910 and pursued additional studies at Cornell University, the University of Chicago, and the University of California.

Young served on the faculty of South Dakota State University from 1907 to 1942, where she gained a reputation as an engaging and respected instructor. Upon her retirement, she was named Professor Emeritus and continued to contribute to South Dakota’s intellectual life through her writing. She authored numerous historical sketches, including South Dakota: An Appreciation and Dakota Again, many of which were privately published and remain in library collections across the state.

A dedicated civic leader, Young was the first president of the Brookings Branch of the American Association of University Women and an active member of local organizations such as the Faculty Women’s Club and the Brookings Woman’s Club. She passed away in January 1965.

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Charles Woodard earned a Doctor of Philosophy in English Language and Literature from the University of Oklahoma in 1975. He joined the faculty of South Dakota State University the same year, where he taught courses in American literature, with particular emphasis on American Indian literature, American poetry, and the literature of the American Midwest and West. His teaching also included peace and conflict studies, composition, and Honors College courses.

During his career, Woodard developed four annual programs at SDSU: the SDSU Great Plains Writers’ Conference, the Oak Lake Tribal Writers’ Retreat, the SDSU Wacipi, and the Consider the Century Conference. His scholarly and professional work focused primarily on American Indian studies and veterans affairs, and he frequently collaborated with individuals and organizations outside the university to develop programs intended to serve broader communities.

Among the notable recognitions of his career, Woodard was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in 1990, was named a Distinguished Professor in 1992, received South Dakota State University’s Excellence in Outreach and Engagement Award in 2012, and was awarded the South Dakota Council of Teachers of English Author of the Year in 2013.

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Hugh Parker Warren was born on December 3, 1922, in Huron, South Dakota, to Charles Parker and Angie Warren. He attended South Dakota State College in Brookings and later the University of South Dakota in Vermillion, where he majored in history. His college education was interrupted by four years of service in the U.S. Army Signal Corps during World War II. While in the Army, Warren completed Radio Repair School and served overseas in England, France, and Germany.

After the war, he attended library school at the University of California, Berkeley. On August 11, 1951, he married Lois. Warren worked at the Chicago Public Library and the Dow Memorial Library in Midland, Michigan, before joining the St. Joseph County Public Library in South Bend, Indiana, where he served as Personnel Services Administrator from 1963 until his retirement in 1988. He and his wife lived in South Bend for more than 40 years. Active in civic life, Warren was a member and past president of the South Bend Lions Club. He died on April 11, 2015, at the age of 92.

Grace Wangberg was born on June 5, 1927, in Woonsocket, South Dakota. She earned a B.S. degree from South Dakota State College in 1950 and married John S. Wangberg of Egan in 1953. A home economics teacher at Artesian High School in the early 1980s, she retired with her husband in 1997. They had three children: Michael, Timothy, and Silvana.

Richard Wahlstrom graduated from the University of Nebraska in 1948 with a Bachelor of Science in Animal Husbandry. He then attended the University of Illinois, where he earned a master’s degree in animal nutrition followed two years later by a Ph.D. in the same field. While at Illinois, Wahlstrom served as a graduate assistant focused primarily on research. From 1951 to 1952, he pursued research with the Merck Institute of Therapeutic Research.

After his work with Merck, Wahlstrom joined South Dakota State College in 1952 to research and teach animal husbandry, a position he held until 1959. That year he was appointed Head Professor of Animal Husbandry, and in 1960 he became Head of the Department, serving until 1967. He returned again as department head for the academic year of 1987.

Wahlstrom was active in professional and community organizations, including Rotary International, the First United Methodist Church, and the American Society of Animal Science (ASAS), where he was named a Fellow. He received numerous awards during his career, including being named Teacher of the Year three times. Other honors include the ASAS Animal Management Award (1976), the SDSU Gamma Sigma Delta Award for Research (1980), the F.O. Butler Award for Outstanding Research (1986), the ASAS Animal Industry Service Award (1989), and recognition as Distinguished Professor Emeritus by SDSU (1988).

Robert Todd Wagner was born on October 30, 1932, and died on January 17, 2011. He earned a degree in philosophy from Augustana College in 1954. That same year, he married Mary Mumford, a native of Howard, South Dakota, before the couple moved to Evanston, Illinois, where Wagner attended Seabury-Western Theological Seminary. They later returned to South Dakota, where Wagner earned his Ph.D. from South Dakota State University. Mary Wagner earned a master’s degree in social sciences in 1974 and a Ph.D. in sociology in 1978.

Wagner joined South Dakota State University in 1971 as an assistant professor of rural sociology and gained wide recognition through his Marriage 250 course. The class enrolled nearly 1,200 students annually across three sections and filled every seat in Rotunda D, the largest classroom on campus.

Wagner served two years as assistant to the vice president for academic affairs and later spent one year as vice president and chief administrator at Dakota State University in Madison. He was subsequently called back to SDSU to assume the university presidency, a position he held from 1985 to 1997.

During his presidency, Wagner guided SDSU from a period of controversy into a more stable era. His emphasis on internal academic and administrative operations, rather than external politics, contributed to significant institutional growth. Despite persistent budget constraints, the campus expanded by more than 380,000 square feet, twenty-two faculty positions were added, and technology became an increasingly central component of university operations. The College of Education and Counseling was established, and major facilities were constructed, including Berg and Bailey Apartments, the Animal Disease Research facility, and the Northern Plains Biostress Laboratory.

Mary Wagner also served as an SDSU staff member, was a member of the Brookings School Board, and represented her district as a Republican legislator for twelve years. She died in 2004.

In 2010, South Dakota State University renamed the Nursing, Family and Consumer Sciences, and Arts and Sciences building in honor of Robert and Mary Wagner, following approval by the South Dakota Board of Regents. A scholar as well as a popular teacher, Wagner authored sixty-four publications and chaired numerous academic committees.

Dr. Vivian Virginia Volstorff joined the faculty of South Dakota State University (SDSU) in 1932, where she served as Dean of Women, Director of Student Activities, and professor of history. She graduated from high school in Elgin, Illinois, and received an associate degree from Elgin Junior College. She continued her education at Northwestern University, earning three degrees: Bachelor of Science, Master of Arts, and Doctor of Philosophy.

During her tenure at SDSU, Volstorff was instrumental in founding organizations for women students, including chapters of Mortar Board and two national social sororities. In 1934, she established Women's Day, an annual campus event celebrating women and awarding scholarships. This tradition continued until 1970.

Volstorff was active in numerous professional and honorary organizations. Her memberships included the American Historical Association, National Association of Deans of Women and Counselors, and Phi Kappa Phi. She held honorary membership in Mortar Board and was a leading member of the Brookings Branch of the American Association of University Women (AAUW). She advocated for SDSU's accreditation to ensure the Brookings Branch could gain official recognition.

Beyond campus, Volstorff was widely known across South Dakota as a speaker on international affairs and contemporary student issues. She was listed in multiple directories of professional achievement, including Who’s Who, Who’s Who of American Women, Who’s Who in American College and University Administration, Leaders in Education, Dictionary of International Biography, and the Directory of American Scholars.

Audrae Eugenie Visser was born on June 3, 1919, near Hurley, South Dakota, to Harry J.L. and Addie Mae (Perryman) Visser. She attended rural schools in Turner and Moody counties and graduated from Flandreau High School in 1938. Visser earned degrees from Black Hills Teachers College, South Dakota State University, and the University of Denver.

Her 52-year teaching career began in Moody County country schools (1939–1943) and continued in communities across South Dakota and Minnesota, including Hot Springs, Pierre, Elkton, De Smet, Flandreau, Windom, Verdi, and Lake Benton. From 1954 to 1955, she taught children of U.S. Air Force personnel in Nagoya, Japan.

Visser began writing poetry at age twelve, publishing her first poem in Pasque Petals at twenty-one. Her first poetry collection, Rustic Roads and Other Poems, was published in 1961. She was named South Dakota Poet Laureate in 1974 by Governor Richard Kneip and published nine additional volumes of poetry between 1974 and 1998, often incorporating her own artwork. Her honors include second prize in the 1984 National Federation of State Poetry Societies contest, judged by May Swenson. She also sponsored numerous poetry contests and established the Perryman-Visser scholarship at South Dakota State University. Visser served as associate editor and editor of Pasque Petals during her tenure as Poet Laureate and remained active in the South Dakota State Poetry Society.

She had one son, Lou H. Guardino, and a brother, Donald Visser. Audrae Visser died on October 8, 2001, in Mabank, Texas.

Loto Rollinstahl Underwood was born on August 22, 1888, in Bryant, South Dakota, to John E. and Mary M. (McLees) Underwood. She was one of four daughters—Ethel, Genevieve, Loto, and Beatrice—the latter three of whom attended South Dakota State College. Her parents emigrated from Canada in 1882 and settled in Garfield Township, Hamlin County, South Dakota, where John Underwood worked in the hardware business. While attending South Dakota State College, Loto was a member of the Athenian Society. She married Orland Emilie White on July 28, 1913. Loto Underwood White died on April 21, 1968, in a nursing home in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Andrew Benjamin Trump was born on November 28, 1950, in Brookings, South Dakota, to Alfred G. Trump Jr. and Anne A. Trump. His father served as librarian and archivist at South Dakota State University, and his mother worked at the Brookings Public Library. He later resided in Fargo, North Dakota, and passed away unexpectedly in Sioux Falls on October 27, 2021, at the age of 70.

Alfred “Al” George Trump Jr. was born April 23, 1907, in Kahoka, Missouri, to Alfred G. Trump Sr. and Elizabeth Bonnett Trump. At age eleven he moved with his family to Chicago, where he graduated from Hyde Park High School in 1924. He earned a bachelor’s degree in Germanics from the University of Chicago in 1929 and later completed the A.B.M.S. degree in 1933 and the A.M.L.S. degree in 1938 at the University of Michigan. Prior to coming to South Dakota, Trump gained broad professional experience in both public and academic libraries, holding positions at the Chicago Public Library, the University of Chicago Library, the University of Michigan Library, the Michigan State Law Library, and Virginia Junior College in Minnesota. During World War II, he served in the United States Navy from 1944 to 1946 as a lieutenant, performing intelligence work in the continental United States and Hawaii.

Trump joined South Dakota State College in 1948 as a librarian and was at that time the sole faculty member assigned to the library. The collection comprised approximately 90,000 volumes housed on the second floor of Lincoln Library, serving a student body of about 900. Appointed director of libraries in 1959, he oversaw a period of substantial expansion that paralleled the institution’s growth and the introduction of doctoral programs beginning in 1954. By his retirement in 1972, the library system held roughly 270,000 volumes and 3,000 journal subscriptions in Lincoln Library, with additional specialized collections located across campus and at nursing facilities in St. Paul, Minnesota. Trump attributed the rapid growth of holdings, particularly in scientific journals, to expanding research needs and played a central role in developing one of the strongest research library collections in the state. After retirement, he continued to serve as archivist emeritus and assisted with planning and logistics for the 1977 relocation of collections to the Hilton M. Briggs Library.

Active in professional service, Trump served as president of the South Dakota Library Association (1958–1959), represented the state in the Mountain Plains Library Association, and served on the governing council of the American Library Association. In Brookings, he participated in St. Paul’s Episcopal Church and university and community organizations for retired faculty and teachers. On August 22, 1935, he married Anne Harris Arnold, a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Oberlin College who earned a master’s degree in history from Case Western Reserve University and worked in academic and state libraries before serving as assistant librarian at the Brookings Public Library from 1960 to 1986. Together they had four children: Michael, Peter, Jeane Gautier, and Andrew. Alfred G. Trump Jr. died November 26, 1994; Anne Arnold Trump died January 11, 2004.

Valerian Three Irons is a Native American educator, oral historian, and advocate for Indigenous language preservation. He served as a professor of American Indian Studies and Associate for Diversity at South Dakota State University from 1997 to 2011. After leaving SDSU, Three Irons joined the faculty of Nueta Hidatsa Sahnish College in New Town, North Dakota, where he has been actively involved in teaching Native American Studies and supporting Mandan language revitalization efforts. In 2018, he received a National Endowment for the Humanities grant to create a publicly accessible archive of Mandan language resources. Throughout his career, he has contributed to tribal education, cultural preservation, and service-learning initiatives.

Verl Thomson was a pioneering South Dakota broadcaster. Born on April 26, 1906, he began his career at Sioux Falls' first broadcast radio station in 1924. He later served as an announcer and program director for KSOO and KELO, and worked as an announcer for NBC in Chicago. In 1948, he established radio station KSID, which he operated until its sale in 1966. From 1962 to 1987, Thomson served as executive director of the South Dakota Broadcasters Association. He passed away on July 7, 1989.