10 Broadcaster Press August 26, 2014 www.broadcasteronline.com Vermillion's Ofstehage earns grant from UNC Andrew Ofstehage, a 2003 graduate of Vermillion High School and later South Dakota State University was one of 19 students and recent graduates of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to be awarded the Fulbright U.S. Student Program grant. "I am really honored by the award," Ofstehage said. "Last Fall I applied for several grants and awards for my research and received a few grants in addition to the Fulbright, but none were as prestigious as the Fulbright. The grant will fully fund nine months of fieldwork that I will conduct in Brazil and this is a huge help for my academic and professional career, but even more than that it is really a personal honor." The grants are for self-designed research and study projects or to teach English abroad during the 2014-2015 academic year. "The application process was long and relatively difficult," Ofstehage said. "I submitted a full research proposal, application form, CV, personal statement and references in the Fall. Then in mid-winter I had an oncampus interview and in the early spring I was told that I made it through the first round. The first round is judged by the U.S. Fulbright Commission. After that, the U.S. Commission sent about 60 recommended applications to the Brazil Fulbright Commission which made that final decision on the winning applications. "One great thing about this process is that both the U.S. funders and the Brazilian commission have to approve of the research, and this means a great deal." n OIAV From Page 01 theater. It’s sad. I hope they turn it into a theater. It was a nice big theater and they had good sound.” Johnson, who has worked for March since 1978 when he was a college student at Wayne State University, notes that films like the recent Star Trek reissue, the Shrek films, and the Rise of the Planet of the Apes all played well at the theater. But nothing matched the power of the force. “I remember when they re-issued Star Wars in 1998 before they made chapters one, two, three,” Johnson said. “We had lines going out this door and all the way down to where Café Brule is today. People were camping out to get tickets.” He also had a soft spot for the kiddie matinees that would play free, fulllength films for kids. Those days are now a fixture at the Coyote Twin. “This was my favorite Andrew Ofstehage of Vermillion received a coveted award from the University of place to watch the movies,” Johnson said. North Carolina recently. “I’d work here and it is such close quarters I could stand and watch the movie and come back and check the front and watch traffic. This was my place to watch movies.” Now as Johnson moves over to work full time across the street at the Coyote Twin, he will ponder the future of his favorite place to hang out, eat popcorn, and catch some of the best flicks around. “It’s sad to see them driving smalltime theaters out,” “Now you get 20 theaters in one place and the numbers you need to support that is big.” Maybe the old quote, "I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse,” will play out when March sells the building. Maybe they can find a way to keep the theater as it is. “It could still be a theater and the building is for sale,” Johnson said. “It would be hard to convert it into anything else. It is a possibility. So if someone made the investment in the digital equipment it could be a theater again. “I don’t know what’s going to happen.” (Courtesy photo) This was the highest number of Fulbright grants awarded to UNC students in a single year. 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