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• South Dakota State University

Susan A. (Sedgwick) Jones was born on January 11, 1844 at No. Adams, Massachusetts. She married Henry R. Jones on May 3, 1865. They moved from Massachusetts to Clintonville, Wisconsin in 1866. They had six children: Clara, Lillie, Jessie, Stella, Bert and another boy. Henry died in 1897.

Susan and her daughter, Jessie, came to South Dakota and homesteaded in Hughes County in 1905. While her daughter was proving her claim, she taught school in Wisconsin and South Dakota. Susan resided on the claim but went back to Wisconsin in the winter.

Susan died on June 23, 1925 at Clintonville, Wisconsin.

• South Dakota State University
• Weight Class: 174 lbs., 184 lbs.
• 2 time conference champion

• South Dakota State University
• Position:
  • 165 Weight Class
  • 174 Weight Class
• 2019-2020 SDSU Wrestling Roster

South Dakota State University wrestler
Position: 125 Weight Class
Hometown: St. Paris, Ohio
High School: St. Paris Graham HIgh School
Major: Wildlife and Fisheries Science 2020-2021 SDSU Wrestling Roster

• South Dakota State University
• Position:
  • 126 Weight Class
  • 134 Weight Class

• South Dakota State University
• Position:
  • 137 Weight Class
  • 147 Weight Class

• South Dakota State University
• Position:
  • 157 Weight Class
  • 167 Weight Class
  • 177 Weight Class

• South Dakota State University
• Position: 177 Weight Class

Joanita Kant was born on January 4, 1947, to Harlan R. and Caroline H. Kant of Watertown, South Dakota. She graduated from Watertown high school in 1965. Joanita first went to Northern State teachers' college from 1968-1969, but transferred to the University of South Dakota where she received her B.S. in Sociology Education in 1972. She received her M.S. degree in Geography from South Dakota State University in 2008. She also received her Ph.D. in Biological Sciences with plant science specializations from SDSU in 2013. She also worked in the Civil and Environmental Engineering department as a research scientist from 2015 to 2018.

During the 1980’s she was Executive Director of the Codington County Historical Society and museums. She authored and co-edited many books, and published journals.
Her interests were in South Dakota history, the Hutterite Brethren, engineering education, and Native Americans in South Dakota.

Joanita married Dean Fisher of Marshall County, South Dakota. They had one daughter Michele.

Joanita Kant passed away March 29, 2021, in Brookings, SD.

• South Dakota State University
• Position: 123 Weight Class

Kappa Epsilon Chi Chapter at South Dakota State University began when the Galen Society was organized in February 1955. It became a part of Kappa Epsilon on March 24, 1956 after the girls of the Galen Society met with North Dakota’s Iota Chapter of Kappa Epsilon. Twenty-one members and one advisor, Mrs. G.C. Gross, were initiated into the fraternity.

Over the years, Chi Chapter has been active on campus and within the College of Pharmacy and Allied Health Professions. Chi Chapter has been supporting Kappa Epsilon’s national project of breast cancer awareness for many years. Traditional events and activities including participating in the SDSU Wellness Fair, collecting Yoplait yogurt lids, and distributing pink ribbons. The newest additions to Chi Chapter’s support of breast cancer awareness are the breast cancer baskets for local chemotherapy patients, the Black and Pink Party, and Relay for Life. / Chi Chapter has received several recognitions from the national fraternity over the years. Chi Chapter was recognized as the Outstanding Collegiate Kappa Epsilon Chapter in 2002-2003. Chi Chapter’s longtime advisor, Dr. Joye Billow, has received numerous recognition's over her time as advisor including the Outstanding Advisor Award, the Unicorn Award, and the Career Achievement Award. Many KE members have been recipients of the Zada M. Cooper Scholarship, and three Chi alums have received the Nellie Wakeman Graduate Fellowship.

Kappa Epsilon Chi Chapter at South Dakota State University began when the Galen Society was organized in February 1955. It became a part of Kappa Epsilon on March 24, 1956 after the girls of the Galen Society met with North Dakota's Iota Chapter of Kappa Epsilon. Twenty-one members and one advisor, Mrs. G.C. Gross, were initiated into the fraternity.

Over the years, Chi Chapter has been active on campus and within the College of Pharmacy and Allied Health Professions. Chi Chapter has been supporting Kappa Epsilon’s national project of breast cancer awareness for many years. Traditional events and activities including participating in the SDSU Wellness Fair, collecting Yoplait yogurt lids, and distributing pink ribbons. The newest additions to Chi Chapter’s support of breast cancer awareness are the breast cancer baskets for local chemotherapy patients, the Black and Pink Party, and Relay for Life.

Chi Chapter has received several recognitions from the national fraternity over the years. Chi Chapter was recognized as the Outstanding Collegiate Kappa Epsilon Chapter in 2002-2003. Chi Chapter’s long time advisor, Dr. Joye Billow, has received numerous recognition's over her time as advisor including the Outstanding Advisor Award, the Unicorn Award, and the Career Achievement Award. Many KE members have been recipients of the Zada M. Cooper Scholarship, and three Chi alums have received the Nellie Wakeman Graduate Fellowship.

• South Dakota State University
• Position: 137 Weight Class

Robert F. Karolevitz, a native of Yankton, South Dakota, was born at Sacred Heart Hospital on April 26, 1922. He began his writing career in high school as editor of the school newspaper and yearbook. He also wrote a sports column for the Yankton Public Opinion. After graduation from Yankton High School in 1940, he began studying printing and journalism at South Dakota State College.

From 1943 to 1946, Karolevitz served with the United States Army Infantry in Japan and the Philippines during World War II. He attained the rank of captain of the 25th Infantry, and, as division historian, wrote his first book, The 25th Infantry Division and World War II which was published by the Army and Nave Publishing Company in 1946. Following his military service, he returned to South Dakota State College and graduated in 1948 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Printing and Rural Journalism. From Brookings, Karolevitz went on to study at the University of Oregon, where he earned a master's degree in journalism.

As an army reservist in 1950, Karolevitz attended a 14-week course at the Armed Forces Information School in Pennsylvania and gained national attention for his article about the program in Quill, a magazine for professional journalists. In 1951, he was recalled to active duty as a public-information officer at the Seattle (Washington) Port of Embarkation where he organized and promoted welcome home celebrations for returning Korean War veterans. Later in the Korean War, he worked as a public-information officer with the United States Eighth Army. His duties included serving in Korea as a feature writer, document censor, and press escort for the Panmunjom Peace Train.

In 1951, Karolevitz and his wife, Phyllis (Gunderson) settled in Seattle, Washington. He began working as a freelance promoter and publicist for the 1962 Seattle World's Fair. He also worked at political ghost writing, commercial writing, and advertising, eventually becoming president of the Seattle Advertising Club. Karolevitz established himself as a writer of popular history with his book Newspapering in the Old West: A Pictorial History of Journalism and Printing on the Frontier, published in 1965 by Superior Publishing in Seattle. He won a special award for excellence from the Washington State Chapter of Sigma Delta Chi for this book.

After almost two decades in the Seattle, Washington, area, Karolevitz returned to South Dakota with his wife Phyllis and two daughters, Jan and Jill. Here he continued his freelance writing career and began building a publication list that included numerous historical works. These included Where Your Heart Is: The Story of Harvey Dunn, Artist which earned Karolevitz the National Cowboy Hall of Fame Wrangler Award, presented to outstanding writers in the field of western literature; Challenge: The South Dakota Story an historical overview of the state written in conjunction with the South Dakota Division of Elementary and Secondary Education and for which he was presented the Western Writers Award for Achievement by the Center of Western Studies at Augustana College, in Sioux Falls, S.D; and Flight of Eagles: The Story of the American Kosciuszko Squadron in the Polish-Russian War, 1919-1920, written with Ross Fenn. This is the story of a group of World War I American fliers who choose to stay in Europe to fight with Polish forces during a year-long war against Russia. Karolevitz and Fenn were awarded a Gold Merit Cross from the Polish Government-in-Exile in London. / Along with his historical works, Karolevitz authored a column entitled "Writer at Large," which appeared in a number of South Dakota newspapers. He also wrote "The Way It Was," a historical column featured in the Yankton Daily Press & Dakotan. He compiled his favorite columns into two books, Tears in My Horseradish (1983) and Toulouse the Goose and Other Ridiculous Stories (1985).

Karolevitz has served as a board member for many institutions, including Yankton County Historical Society, the South Dakota Hall of Fame, and the South Dakota Art Museum. He was elected to the South Dakota State Historical Society Board of Trustees in 1973 and served for over thirty years, retiring in June 2005. He also played a role in the establishment of the South Dakota State Historical Society Press in 1997, acting as financial advisor and author's advocate. He has served as president of the South Dakota State University Alumni Association and has received its Distinguished Alumni Award. He is past chairman of Sacred Heart Hospital board of trustees and the South Dakota Health Systems Agency. He was chairman of the board of Lewis & Clark Health Education & Service Agency, and served on the board of directors of the Yankton Area Health Education Center.

Throughout most of his professional career, Karolevitz has published nearly forty books, written dozens of columns, and sold over one thousand magazine articles, features, and poems, many to national publications. In honor of his years of achievement, he was inducted into the South Dakota Hall of Fame in 1973 and selected as the organization's Writer of the Year in 1986. The South Dakota Newspaper Association named him Distinguished Citizen of the Year in 1981, and the South Dakota Council of Teachers of English named his Author of the Year for 1989-1990. Karolevitz received the Pankow Media Award in 1991 and was chosen as Yankton's Citizen of the Year in 1981 for his literary work and civic involvement. He also earned the Bishop Dudley Media Award from the Diocese of Sioux Falls (2004) and the Sertoma Service to Mankind Award (2005).

• South Dakota State University
• Position: 141 Weight Class
• Hometown: Medford, Minnesota

• Navy
• Position: 149.5 Weight Class

• University of Michigan Coacn 1925-1970

• South Dakota State University
• Position: 167 Weight Class

• Oklahoma State University
• Position: 142 Weight Class

• Oklahoma State University
• Position: 123 Weight Class

2010-11
Finished his senior season with a 13-17 overall record, including 6-9 duals record and 3-3 in the Western Wrestling Conference ... named to the WWC Coaches' Honor Roll with a 3.195 GPA as a health, physical education and recreation major

2009-10
Won a pair a matches at heavyweight during his junior season ... picked up his first win of the year in a 4-1 decision over Joe Arthur from North Dakota State to give SDSU their first win over the Bison since 1997 ... won a match at the West Regional defeating Justin Tuell from Northern Colorado 4-1 ... finished fourth in the West Regional after a defeat by LJ Helbig of Wyoming by fall in 4:59

2008-09
Had a 6-11 record as a sophomore wrestling mainly at 174 pounds ... recorded a pin during the Warren Williamson Open ... was pinned against #18 ranked Alex Dolly of Northern Iowa in a home meet

2007-08
Named a Junior College All-American after placing seventh at 197 pounds..

2006-07
Redshirted at Iowa Central Community College in Fort Dodge, Iowa

Before SDSU
Increased his wins each year from his sophomore year to senior year while in high school from 12 to 23 to 36 in his senior year

• University of Wisconsin
• Position: 150 Weight Class

OBIT

Donald Gene Kenefick was born on July 4, 1929, the son of John E. and Ora “Sylvia” (Reierson) Kenefick. He was the second oldest of six children. They lived in 14 different homes in and around Rio, WI., during Don’s first 16 years. Moving frequently by the family was an essential requirement for his father to find employment, a source of income and housing. The WPA (Workers Progress Administration) was one source, created by the Federal Government to provide work for hardship cases. His father was fortunate to receive WPA assistance in addition to farm hand labor in exchange for basic shelter and food. In addition, Columbia County distributed outdated food to our home.

Valuable life lessons were gleened from those difficult years - - “You gotta be worth more than you get”, and “challenges are the fodder of life”. His parents provided valuable ingredients of stability, dependability, and compassion for their family.

Don received his early education in Rio. After graduating, from high school in 1947, he enrolled at the University of Wisconsin and received a B.S. degree in 1951. To meet the military requirement, he enlisted in the Air Force and was discharged in 1955.

Don was united in marriage to Ruth Haines on August 13, 1955, in Arcadia, WI. Shortly thereafter they moved to East Lansing, MI, where he enrolled in a PhD program at Michigan State University with a major in Plant Physiology. He graduated in April of 1959 and accepted a position in Agronomy, later Plant Science with a joint appointment in the Chemistry Department at South Dakota State University. His duties at SDSU included research of freeze resistance of winter cereals. The renowned biochemists Watson and Crick and predecessors provided the original insight about the biology of inheritance in the early 1950’s. Their discovery gave a clue as to the direction of Don’s 36 year career at SDSU.

During his employment at SDSU, he was a visiting professor in physiology at the University of Illinois (1965-1966). In 1975, he was invited by the USDA as part of a four member team to visit USSR on a mission to exchange research views about crop stress. In 1980, the National Academy of Science granted Don a three month visit in USSR and Yugoslavia as a visiting scientist to exchange views about the status of their plant research. He was a charter member of SDSU Academic Senate, a chairman and served 11 years as an elected member.

His mutant wheat research continued on for 25 years into his retirement, including formation of a company to extend that research. It resulted in a novel mutant wheat collection and an authentic 10 chapter copyright manual describing his research. These efforts were donated to the South Dakota Crop Improvement Association. Don also authorized 40 referred journal articles, several original research articles about his primary responsibilities.

Don’s interests also involved baseball, first playing in the American Legion and then at the University of Wisconsin, and later after the start of his research career. He coached youth baseball, going with a group of talented Brookings players who went to the National Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) Teener Tournament in Hershey, PA.

He sang in numerous church choirs, with eight different men’s quartets, and participated in two Brookings Civic Musicals. Don also enjoyed woodworking.

After a lifetime of family care and dedication, Ruth extended those attributes to her career choice as a RN. While employed as a Community Health Nurse, she completed requirements for a B.S. degree in nursing. Subsequently she obtained a M.S. degree in Public Health and became an instructor in that profession at SDSU until her retirement. Thereafter they traveled abroad several times and in the United States, often visiting children. Ruth died on February 23, 2004. Don often implied that Ruth was his angel in life. Ruth and Don were generous contributors to the college of Nursing and SDSU Athletics.

Don and Ruth were blessed with eight children; Karla (Tom) Murphy of Sioux Falls, SD, Julie Onisk of Columbus, OH, Kari Kenefick of Madison, WI, Jane Kenefick of Sioux Falls, SD, Thomas Kenefick of Brookings, SD, Sara Heffernan of LaCrosse, WI, Paula (Mathew) Pardy of Sioux Falls, SD, and Bill Kenefick, who died as the result of an automobile accident in 1978. Beside their many accomplishments, they provided numerous other gifts to humanity. Family gatherings with letters and through telephone visits they relayed family experiences as grateful reminders of life together.

In 2005, Don met Peggy Settle and were married on April 28, 2006. After marriage they spent time traveling in Europe, and later in the Caribbean.

• South Dakota State University
• Position: 157 Weight Class

• Simley High School
• Position: 218-263 lb.
• Sub in Minneapolis
• Ohio State University
• Position: Heavyweight
• 6'3", 230 lb.

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.

Robert Floyd Kerr was born April 12, 1850 at Sugar Grove, Indiana. He attended Wabash College and later DePauw University, where he graduated in 1877. After teaching in Indiana for 2 years, he taught English and Mathematics at Hirosaki, Japan in 1879. Upon his return to the United States in 1880, Kerr taught again throughout the Midwest, settling finally in Brookings in 1885, where he was professor of political economy and Principal of the Preparatory Department. In 1892, he was ousted from the college and went to Illinois to work but he returned to Brookings in 1898, this time as Librarian and Principal of the Preparatory Department.

In addition to these roles, he also served as steward and manager of a boarding club, ran the men's dormitory and acted as advisor to the Dakota Agricultural Cadets, the military organization on campus. In addition to his work on the SDSU campus, Kerr was also active in Brookings. He was instrumental in founding the Forum, a men's association in town, and he was active with the Masons. In 1905, Kerr accepted a position as private Secretary to Governor Elrod. In 1911 and 1913, he served on the South Dakota legislature. In his later years, he lived in Brookings, edited a farm paper and remained active in many community organizations. He died October 16, 1921.

South Dakota State University wrestler
Position: 149 weight class
Hometown: Buckingham, Iowa
High School: Con Bosco High School
Major: Exploratory Studies

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• South Dakota State University
• Position: 149 Weight Class
• 2020-2021 SDSU Wrestling Roster

South Dakota State University wrestler
Position: 174/184 Weight Class
Hometown: Waseca, Minnesota
High School: Owatonna High School
Major: Business Economics

2020-2021 SDSU Wrestling Roster

• South Dakota State University
• Position:
  • 123 Weight Class
  • 130 Weight Class

• South Dakota State University
• Position:
  • 174 Weight Class
  • 184 Weight Class

• South Dakota State University
• Position:
  • 134 Weight Class
  • 142 Weight Class
  • 150 Weight Class

• South Dakota State University
• Position: 142 Weight Class

• South Dakota State University
• Position: 147 Weight Class

• Lapeer West High School, Michigan
• University of Minnesota
• Position: 184 Weight Class
• North Dakota State University head coach
• NDSU Wrestling Roster