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Sherwood O. Berg was born and raised near Hendrum, Minnesota, where he actively participated in 4-H and took on responsibilities managing the family farm after the death of his father. He began his post-secondary education at the University of Minnesota's School of Agriculture before transferring to South Dakota State College (SDSC) in 1940, drawn by the strength of its agricultural program. His education was interrupted by military service in World War II, during which he served in the U.S. Army as a field infantryman and later as a Military Government Food and Agricultural Officer.

Following the war, Berg completed his B.S. degree at SDSC in 1947, earned an M.S. from Cornell University in 1948, and received his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in 1951. He served internationally as Agricultural Attaché to Yugoslavia, Norway, and Denmark (1951–1957) before returning to academia as Professor and Head of Agricultural Economics at the University of Minnesota. In 1963, he was appointed Dean of the Institute of Agriculture at the same institution and served as chair of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s National Advisory Commission on Food and Fiber.

From 1973 to 1975, Berg directed The Indonesia Project of the Midwest Universities Consortium and later returned to SDSU as its President on August 1, 1975, becoming the first alumnus to hold the role. His presidency was marked by institutional growth, international partnerships in Syria, Botswana, Senegal, and Mauritania, and increasing numbers of international students. He also facilitated the creation of SDSU’s first endowed faculty position—the Ethel Austin Martin-Edward Moss Martin Chair in Human Nutrition. He retired in 1984 as President Emeritus.

Berg married Elizabeth Ann Hall in 1952. They had two children.

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Professor Donald Berg earned a B.A. in History from North Dakota State University in 1964 and an M.A. in History in 1966. He completed a second M.A. at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1971 and received his Ph.D. in Geography from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1976.

Berg served in the U.S. Army from 1966 to 1969, including service in the Vietnam War from 1967 to 1968. During the summers of 1970, 1971, and 1972, he was employed as a seasonal ranger naturalist at Sequoia National Park in California.

He joined South Dakota State University as a professor of geography and history in 1990 and retired in May 2011. He also held earlier appointments at SDSU from 1983 to 1986. Berg taught courses primarily in physical geography, world regional geography, and environmental disasters and hazards, as well as seminars in regional geography, transportation, energy, and illegal drugs. His teaching also included courses in the history of the American West and American Indian history and culture. For more than fifteen years, he provided orientation sessions for students participating in the International Partnership for Service-Learning program.

Berg served as secretary treasurer of the Great Plains Rocky Mountain Division of the Association of American Geographers from 1994 to 2008 and was faculty sponsor for the Delta Zeta Chapter of Gamma Theta Upsilon beginning in 1994. He was the first instructor at South Dakota State University to offer live, real time interactive television courses on the Brookings campus and received two Governor’s Grants in 2000 and 2002 for the application of computer technology to online instruction in physical geography.

His research, professional presentations, and publications addressed topics including Native American casinos, the historical geography of railroads, federal defense and water development programs, and related book reviews and encyclopedia contributions. His later work focused on the historical geography of the Dust Bowl era in the northern Great Plains and the development and significance of the American Indian Reservation system in South Dakota.

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Lt. Ward B. Bates was born on February 17, 1895, in Yankton, South Dakota. His father, Charles Homer Bates, served as a U.S. Deputy Surveyor and conducted boundary surveys between South Dakota and North Dakota from 1891 to 1892. Bates attended the State University of Iowa in Iowa City.

He enlisted in the Army National Guard on December 1, 1912, and was honorably discharged on December 1, 1915. With the onset of World War I, Bates re-enlisted and was commissioned as a second lieutenant of field artillery on August 15, 1917. He served in the American Expeditionary Force (A.E.F.) in Europe and traveled across the United States with other newly commissioned officers during his training and assignments. He was honorably discharged on August 1, 1919.

Following the war, Bates moved to California, where he met and married Eunice Morey Wolcott. They had one daughter, Nancy Farley. Ward B. Bates died on October 21, 1946.

Madge A. Kerlin was born February 9, 1901 in Iowa to Marvin P. and Anna R (Kisling) Kerlin. They moved to Chamberlain, South Dakota in 1903 and to Murdo, South Dakota in 1906. She attended South Dakota State College from 1920 to 1921.

Sometime between 1921 and 1923, Madge married World War I veteran Lloyd S. Bastian, who was born in Redfield, South Dakota on December 8, 1898. The 1930 United States Census shows Lloyd and Madge living in Beverly Hills, California with a one-year old son. Lloyd was listed as a dentist and Madge a homemaker. The 1940 US Census shows them living in Oxnard, California, with their two sons. Madge Kerlin Bastian died in Ventura, California on March 6, 1989. Lloyd Bastian died on September 20, 1989.

Robert “Bob” Wilbur Bartling was a lifelong resident of Brookings, South Dakota, whose life was marked by dedication to athletics, business, education, and community service. Born on August 26, 1926, to Earl and Daisy Bartling, he graduated from Brookings High School in 1944, where he was Homecoming King and excelled in football, basketball, and track. His college education at South Dakota State University was interrupted by service in the U.S. Air Force during World War II. After the war, he earned a business degree from the University of Minnesota and completed training at the St. Louis College of Mortuary Science in 1952.

Bartling returned to Brookings and joined the family business, Bartling Furniture and Funeral Home, before later founding Bartling’s Shoes, South Dakota’s first Nike dealership. A devoted distance runner, he co-founded the Prairie Striders Running Club in 1970 and served as its first president and longtime treasurer. He ran the Jack 15 road race 38 times, held a U.S. Track & Field Masters record for the 30-kilometer distance, and remained active in athletics into his later years.

Bartling was deeply involved with South Dakota State University, where he established the Prairie Striders Running Library at the Hilton M. Briggs Library and began volunteering in the archives in 2015. He was honored by the South Dakota Library Association as “Friend of the Library” in 2019. Other recognitions included the Prairie Striders’ Friend of Running Award in 2007 and induction into the Brookings High School Sports Hall of Fame in 2009.

A longtime member of First Presbyterian Church in Brookings, Bartling served in various leadership roles and was named Outstanding Senior Presbyterian in 2016. He and his wife, Katherine Jean Taylor, were married in Brookings on June 11, 1949, and had two children, Jane and David. Bartling remained active into his 90s, including biking the Mickelson Trail at age 97. He passed away on February 24, 2024, at the age of 97.

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Allen Barnes was born on June 12, 1926, in Newport, Nebraska. He graduated from Hastings College in 1948, pursued further studies at the University of Idaho, and earned his Ph.D. from the University of Madrid in 1952. He held teaching and administrative positions at Chadron State College in Nebraska before serving as Executive Director of the Bi-national Institute in Tehran, Iran, followed by a similar role in Concepción, Chile.

In 1961, Barnes relocated to Brookings, South Dakota, to become head of the Department of Foreign Languages at South Dakota State University (SDSU). In 1967, he was appointed Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, succeeding Frank G. Schultz and serving in that role until 1985. He was followed by Rex Myers.

As Dean, Barnes advocated for the advancement of the College of Arts and Sciences within a university historically centered on agriculture and practical arts. He supported improvements to departmental facilities and led a campaign to establish a performing arts center on campus. He regularly promoted the work of faculty through biannual reports and “state of the college” addresses.

Barnes also emphasized international education, supporting the expansion of foreign language instruction and promoting study abroad opportunities. He assisted international students in their transition to SDSU and the Brookings community. After stepping down as Dean in 1985, he returned to teaching in the Department of Foreign Languages until his retirement in 1989. This collection was donated to the university archives at that time.

Edgar J. Banks was an antiquities enthusiast and itinerant archaeologist active during the final decades of the Ottoman Empire. He served as American consul in Baghdad beginning in 1898 and acquired large numbers of cuneiform tablets through the antiquities market, which he sold in small groups to museums, libraries, universities, and theological seminaries across the United States, including institutions in Utah and the American Southwest. Many tablets originated from local excavations at sites such as Telloh and other tells in central Mesopotamia, while others were obtained through dealers in Istanbul. During this period, the Ottoman government did not regulate the trade in minor antiquities. Although initially funded to excavate at Ur, Banks was denied permission to dig at major sites such as Babylon and Tell Ibrahim. In 1903, he was authorized to excavate at Bismya, the site of the ancient Sumerian city of Adab in present-day Iraq. His 1912 publication on the Bismya excavations documents both the archaeological work and administrative challenges encountered under Ottoman authority.

In 1909, Banks became a professor of Oriental languages and archaeology at the University of Toledo. After World War I, he traveled widely as a lecturer and continued to distribute cuneiform tablets to collectors and institutions. Tablets he sold to Charles W. Ames are now held by the Science Museum at the University of Minnesota, among other public and private collections in the United States. Banks is also associated with the sale of the cuneiform tablet known as Plimpton 322 to publisher George Arthur Plimpton; the tablet later entered Columbia University’s collections and is recognized for its importance to the study of Babylonian mathematics, frequently cited for its relevance to early understandings of relationships later formalized as the Pythagorean theorem. Banks was additionally involved in early motion picture ventures and undertook an expedition to Mount Ararat in search of Noah’s Ark, and he reportedly served as a consultant on biblical films in the early 1920s. He settled in Eustis, Florida, in 1921 and remained there until his death in 1945 at the age of 79. The Eustis Historical Museum maintains a permanent exhibit interpreting his life and work.

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Professor Emerita Mary Peterson Arnold was born in December 1947. While a student at Dakota Wesleyan University in Mitchell, she worked as a city desk reporter and women’s editor for the Mitchell Daily Republic. After earning a master’s degree in English from the University of South Dakota, she spent four years from 1973 to 1977 as a reporter for the Vermillion Plain Talk.

Arnold later taught high school journalism and served as a newspaper and yearbook adviser in Minnesota and Iowa. She joined the faculty of the University of Iowa in 1986, where she earned a doctorate in mass communications. At Iowa, she directed the Iowa High School Press Association and coordinated summer journalism workshops.

She subsequently served as a professor at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana, where she directed the American Society of Newspaper Editors High School Journalism Institute. From 1989 to 2004, Arnold served on the board of the Student Press Law Center, including a term as president.

From 1996 to 2001, Arnold worked in Washington, D.C., managing the Newspaper Association of America Foundation’s high school journalism and youth outreach programs. During this period, she helped establish a student newspaper and a youth editorial program. Afterward, she returned to Ball State University, where she taught journalism courses and directed a high school journalism workshop for two years.

Arnold also worked as a consultant and author for the Media Management Center at Northwestern University, where she wrote a series of four books focusing on women in senior management positions within news organizations.

In 2002, Arnold was hired by South Dakota State University as head of the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication. She retired from the university in 2017.

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The Army Administration Schools, Enlisted Branch No. 3 at South Dakota State College was established on December 3, 1942. Initially designed to train clerks for general administrative duties in the Air Corps, the school graduated a total of eleven such classes. On May 19, 1943, a classification course was added, focusing primarily on classification subjects with some administrative training included. Six classes completed this segment of the program.

Students of the Army Administration School shared all South Dakota State College facilities with civilian students. The program fully occupied the Central Building, Old North Building, East Men’s Hall, West Men’s Hall, and Wecota Annex. For the convenience of the trainees, an exchange was maintained in East Men’s Hall. Health services for the command were provided by local physicians, thereby freeing military medical personnel for other assignments.

Military discipline and ceremonial practice were emphasized through close order drill and organized transitions between classes. Weekly retreat parades were conducted, some held in honor of visiting dignitaries. Each class had formal opening and closing exercises in the college auditorium. Additionally, in the fall of 1943, school personnel assisted with the regional harvest in the Brookings area, helping to meet labor shortages caused by the war.

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