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• South Dakota State University
• Position: 165 weight class
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Born April 26, 1906, Verl Thomson was a South Dakota broadcaster who worked for the first broadcast radio station in Sioux Falls in 1924 and later went on to be an announcer and program director for KSOO, KELO, and an announcer for NBC in Chicago. He began KSID in 1948 and sold the station in 1966. From 1962 to 1987 he was the executive director for the South Dakota Broadcasters Association. Thomson passed away July 7, 1989.

• South Dakota State University
• Position: 177 Weight Class

Melvin Lloyd Thorne was born on August 18, 1917, near Stickney, South Dakota, to John Harry and Elizabeth (Haisch) Thorne. After his father's death during the 1919 flu epidemic, he was raised primarily by his grandmother and step-grandfather, Cornelia and William Davis, on a farm. His family later moved to Philip, South Dakota, during its early development, where Melvin experienced pioneer life.

Growing up during the Great Depression, he worked to support his family. At sixteen, he moved to Lead, South Dakota, where he graduated from high school while working and living resourcefully. He began his career with the J.C. Penney Company, eventually becoming its youngest store manager at the age of 24.

In 1946, Melvin founded Thorne’s Clothing Store in Gettysburg, South Dakota. His interest in livestock nutrition led to his involvement with Daffin Manufacturing Company, where he conceptualized and promoted the mobile feed mill. In 1958, he entered the tourism industry, establishing Kamp Dakota, Inc., one of the earliest franchised tourist campgrounds.

A lifelong historian, Melvin extensively researched family genealogy and shared South Dakota pioneer history with schoolchildren. For the state’s centennial, he constructed a log cabin and trained oxen for educational displays and parades.

Melvin was active in the First Presbyterian Church as an Elder, Deacon, and Trustee. A Mason since 1949, he was a member of Ionic Lodge No. 83 and Brookings Lodge No. 24, as well as the Scottish Rite and El Riad Shrine. He also served in the South Dakota National Guard beginning in 1935.

Valerian Three Irons, was an American Indian Studies professor and Diversity Association at South Dakota State University from 1997 to 2011.

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• South Dakota State University
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• South Dakota State University
• Position: 141 Weight Class

• South Dakota State University
• Position: 123 Weight Class

• South Dakota State University
• Position: 167 Weight Class

• South Dakota State University
• Position: 285 weight class
• 2020-2021 SDSU Wrestling Roster

• South Dakota State University
• Position: 147 Weight Class

Alfred “Al” George Trump Jr. was born April 23, 1907 in Kahoka, Missouri to Alfred G. (Senior) and Elizabeth (Bonnett) Trump. When he was 11 years old, his family moved to Chicago, where he graduated from Hyde Park High School (1924) and from the University of Chicago with a degree in Germanics (1929). In 1933, he received an A.B.M.S and, in 1938, an A.M.L.S from the University of Michigan.

Prior to arriving at SDSU in Brookings, Trump worked in several libraries, including the Chicago Public Library, University of Chicago Library, University of Michigan Library, Michigan State Law Library, and Virginia Junior College Library in Minnesota. He also served in the US Navy as a Lieutenant (1944-1946) and was stationed in the continental US and Hawaii where he engaged in intelligence work.

Trump came to South Dakota State College in 1948 as a librarian and the only faculty member in the library, which had 90,000 volumes and occupied only the second floor of Lincoln Library (built to serve 900 students). He was named director of its libraries in 1959. He held this position until his retirement in 1972. At his retirement in 1972, the library occupied the entire building, served 6,500 students, and had 270,000 volumes and subscribed to approximately 3,000 journals. Many of the books were housed elsewhere including Hanson Hall (35,000), East Men’s Hall (10,000), Shepherd Hall’s chemistry library (15,000), and the nursing facilities in St. Paul MN (2,000). Trump attributed the growth to the addition of the doctoral program in 1954, “We began subscribing to many of the scientific journals and now have one of the strongest research libraries in the state.”

Following his retirement, Trump continued at SDSU’s library as archivist emeritus and was instrumental in the logistical challenges of its move of from Lincoln Library to the Hilton M. Briggs Library in 1977, after which he fully retired.

Trump was active in library associations, including the state South Dakota Library Association (President 1958-1959), regional Mountain-Plains Library Association (South Dakota’s representative), and national American Library Association (where he was South Dakota’s representative and a member of its governing council). In Brookings, he was an active member of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Retired Teachers Association, and SDSU Retired Faculty Association.

On August 22, 1935, he married Anne Harris Arnold, who was born to Jacob H. and Bertha (Harris) Arnold in Wilmington, NC, on February 16, 1908. She grew up in Washington, DC, and Northfield, MN. She attended Oberlin College, graduating Phi Beta Kappa with degrees in history and Latin in 1929. After she earned an MA in history from Case Western Reserve, she worked at Johns Hopkins University Library (1932-1935) and at Michigan State Library (1936). She returned to librarianship in 1960 as Assistant Librarian at the Brookings, SD, Public Library, where she worked until 1986. The Trumps had four children: Michael, Peter, Jeane Gautier, and Andrew. Alfred G. Trump, Jr. died November 26, 1994. Anne Arnold Trump passed away on January 11, 2004.

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• 2013-2014: 10-12 overall, 0-0 dual
• TOTAL: 10-12 overall, 0-0 dual

• Oklahoma State University

• Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical College

Born August 22, 1888 to John E and Mary M. (McLees) Underwood in Bryant, South Dakota, Loto Rollinstahl Underwood was the one of four daughters, (in birth order) Ethel, Genevieve, Loto, and Beatrice, the latter three of whom attended South Dakota State College. In 1882, her parents emigrated from Canada and lived in Garfield township, Hamlin County, SD, where John was in the hardware business. Lotto attended South Dakota State College where she was a member of the Athenian Society. On July 28, 1913, Loto married Orland Emilie White. On April 21, 1968, Loto Underwood White died in Charlottesville, Virginia nursing home.

President Lyndon B. Johnson established the National Advisory Commission on Food and Fiber on November 4, 1965 on which Sherwood O. Berg served as chairperson. President Johnson instructed the Commission to make an appraisal of agricultural and foreign trade policies; to conduct a study of the effects of agricultural policies on the performance of the economy and foreign relations; and to prepare a report, which would serve as a guide for future decisions and policies The work of the Commission was initially divided into six major areas: 1. Production and consumption trends and potentials in the world, 2. Policies for commercial agriculture, 3. Policies for the non-commercial sector of agriculture, 4. Policies for forestry and natural resources development, 5. Agricultural trade and foreign economic policies; and 6. The role of agriculture in world economic development. Five commissioners with staff and consultants were assigned to each area.

The full-time staff was small and included professional economists on leave from universities, from the federal government and from business. They were augmented by a group of consultants and experts from both the public and private sector. The Commissions research and study took many forms. Surveys were conducted; existing information was analyzed; position papers were prepared. The Commission was briefed by leading authorities and experts, and public hearings were held throughout the country.

The full Commission met 13 times over a period of 18 months for two or three days each time. At these meetings, the Commissioners heard testimony from leading authorities and experts and engaged in group discussions. The staff and consultants who later proposed recommendations prepared analyses and materials focusing on specific issues.

The Commission was made up of 31 members who represented agriculture, economics and labor throughout the United States. The chairperson was Sherwood O. Berg, who was Dean of the Institute of Agriculture at the University of Minnesota at the time. The remaining members were Harry B. Caldwell, Willard W. Cochrane, C.W. Cook, George C. Cortright, Woodrow W. Diehl, Edmund H. Fallon, Carl C. Farrington, Frank Fernbach, Roscoe G. Haynie, Fred V. Heinkel, Roy Hendrickson, William A. Hewitt, George K. Hislop, J.G. Horsfall, Herbert J. Hughes, D. Gale Johnson, Herman S. Kohlmeyer, Robert Magowan, L.L. Males, Edward F. Mauldin, Paul Miller, W.B. Murphy, Ernest J. Nesius, Leon Schachter, Janice M. Smith, Lauren Soth, Jesse Tapp, Jay Taylor, Herman Wells, and John Wheeler.