Broadcaster Press 11 January 29, 2019 www.broadcasteronline.com 38 years in business 32 yEarS in buSinESS 32 yEarS In BuSInESS 32 years in business 29 yearS in buSineSS 27 gift shop. In 1973, things suddenly changed for the W.H. Over Museum. Explains Bradley: “While June Sampson was Director of the Museum (1973-1979), ownership of W. H. Over Museum was transferred abruptly by the Kneip administration from the South Dakota Board of Regents to the State Board of Cultural Preservation, as were three other museums associated with State Universities under Executive Order 73-1,” Bradley said. “Little forethought was given to the long-term consequences of this change in governance.” In 1985, when the Board of Cultural Preservation was disbanded, control of the W. H. Over Museum’s holdings were taken over by the South Dakota Historical Society. This organization continues to “manage” the museum with substantial assistance from the Friends of the W. H. Over Museum. During the 1980s, after 100 years of existence, the W. H. Over Museum acquired its own space in a newbuilding located at the edge of campus. The Vermillionaire Debuts In This Week’s Plain Talk There’s a newspaper within the pages of the Vermillion Plain Talk this week. The premiere edition of The Vermillionaire, the student newspaper of Vermillion High School, is included in this week’s edition of the Plain Talk. The Vermillionaire’s first edition will also appear in the Sept. 25 edition of The Broadcaster Press. The stories and photos of The Vermillionaire have been written, edited and composed by VHS students. “The newspaper had been around for quite a while at VHS, and we actually decided to bring it back with its old name,” said Justin Brunick, an art teacher at the high school who also advises students who work on the school yearbook and its newspaper. “It was originally called The Vermillionaire and for a short time I believe it was The Tanager Times, but we decided as a class that we wanted to bring back the old name for the newspaper, which is The Vermillionaire. “Previously, the paper had been done through a journalism class with Cindy Heckenlaible,” he said. “And when she left, I took over her position as far as doing the yearbook. I looked into possibilities of bringing it (the school newspaper) back as a class.” Brunick’s roles at VHS include teaching photography. “Being that I’m a photography teacher, we actually brought it back as part of the photojournalism class rather than through the journalism class,” he said, “so we handle both the yearbook and the newspaper as part of the class now, which is great. I feel it gives the kids more of an investment in it because it’s part of their class and part of a learning experience as opposed to being fully a club.” Students who are unable to participate in the photojournalism class because of scheduling conflicts or other issues may still take part in the student newspaper’s production on a club basis. “We still have the club for kids who can’t take the class,” Brunick said. “They’re able to participate in the newspaper and the yearbook even if they can’t fit it (the class) into their schedule. But offering it through the photojournalism class gives it a little bit more flexibility for the kids that may have been looking for another class to help fill their schedule.” Some of the students involved in the newspaper’s production have already taken Brunick’s photography class. “The kids can take it as many times as they want, which is nice, and the plan is that the more times they take the class, their roles (in producing the newspaper) will increase,” he said. “They may be just writing stories and taking photos for those stories the first time around, along with some random assignments. “As they take the class more times, they’ll be able to move up to different editing positions within the class,” Brunick said. “They might move up to photo editor or copyeditor or assistant editor, or one of the editors for the newspaper or the yearbook.” The inclusion of The Vermillionaire into the pages of the Plain Talk and the Broadcaster Press means Vermillion High School students are now producing another print product. “The only print product that we had before was the yearbook,” he said, “and so that’s changing quite a bit. The kids are really excited about it.” Exciting Metamorphosis In Store For NMM Over The Next Two Years Over the next two and a half years, there will be an exciting metamorphosis taking place at the National Music Museum. Those changes to the world class museum began this past weekend during a gala event that included a Night at the Museum fundraiser, groundbreaking on a separate Preservation Center that is being heavily supported by the Vermillion Chamber and Development Company, and preparations for the museum’s upcoming closure, which will take place Oct. 7 and could last several years. “Oct. 6 is the last day to visit the museum for a while,” said Patricia Bornhofen, manager of communications at the National Music Museum. “Throughout the preparation period and construction phase, the museum will be temporarily closed. Groundbreaking for the Carnegie addition is slated for early summer 2019, with the years in business October Gestring Reveals Priorities In First State Of The University Address University of South Dakota President Sheila Gestring said the university’s School of Law and the University Center in Sioux Falls are top priorities as she addressed USD faculty and staff in her first State of the University address since becoming USD’s president last July. 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MAIN 121 MAIN Vermillion, SD 57069 605-624-2829 years in business 26 museum reopening in 2021.” When the museum does reopen, it will sport an approximately 16,000 square foot expansion onto the existing Carnegie building, which was built in 1910. The project will add two floors and an underground level, resulting in more exhibit space, a gallery dedicated to temporary exhibits, a new performance hall, a classroom, a new research and conservation lab, a new photography lab, more archival storage, and more. The addition will be built on the west side of the building and include a new ADA-accessible entrance into a grand, glass-fronted, two-story lobby. Schwartz/ Silver Architects of Boston, Massachusetts, created the integrated look with Koch Hazard Architects of Sioux Falls serving as the on-site authorities and architect of record. Ground-breaking on the NMM addition will not take place until 2019, however, the museum must close now in preparation for the huge project. With more than 15,000 instruments in its collection, packing and moving the museum’s holdings will take several months. And precious and delicate instruments that are – in many cases – priceless, can’t be moved just anywhere. So, enter the Vermillion Chamber and Development Company and the new NMM Preservation Center, a separate building being constructed at 1225 N. Carr Street, east of Polaris, south of Highway 50. “People may not realize that only about eight percent of the National Music Museum’s collection of musical instruments is on display,” said NMM Deputy Director of Operations Rodger Kelly. “The Preservation Center will be a working facility where NMM staff, students, and visiting researchers can study the thousands of instruments not on display. The first use of the Preservation Center, however, will be to temporarily house the collection while the Carnegie building is renovated. We are very fortunate to be partnering with the Vermillion Chamber and Development Corporation, who stepped forward with a win-win solution on the creation of a Vermillion structure that would be purpose-built but also flexible for the future.” Henderson’s PR September MyPI Program To Engage Teens In Disaster Preparedness If all goes as Lauren Hollenbeck hopes it will, several other tasks associated with running a museum. Students have provided research and exhibit construction skills in the past. Currently, seven retirees provide a range of necessary skills for museum operation.” The W.H. Over Museum spent its first 90 years as a university endeavor. It began in 1883 as part of the University of South Dakota. In the beginning, the “museum” was located in University Hall and consisted of several mineral cabinets and natural history displays created by curator Dr. Gabriel Agorsberg, a physician, veterinarian, pharmacist, amateur ornithologist, and USD zoology instructor. The collection of cabinets and displays grew through the years. In 1926, W.H. Over became the Director of the Museum, a position he served in until 1948. After Slagle Hall was constructed in 1925, the museum relocated from University Hall to the basement of that new building. “Under W. H. Over’s leadership, the Museum increased its holdings and status at the University in many areas including archeology, ornithology, botany, Native American studies, and geology,” explains Bradley. “In addition, he and colleagues wrote seminal books on South Dakota amphibians, reptiles, birds, mollusks, and Indian picture writings. Over also wrote newsletters on specific topics and described recent museum accessions. Aside from collecting inanimate objects, he also collected some live specimens for the Museum and started a reference library. Having had little more than an 8th grade education, Over made up for it by extensive reading and research evident in his correspondence, drafts of papers, and scrap books held by the Museum. Over received an honorary doctorate degree from the University of South Dakota in 1936. Because of his significant, long-term contributions to the Museum and the University, in 1949, the Museum was renamed in his honor as the W.H. Over Dakota Museum.” In 1967, the W.H. Over Dakota Museum landed a new home at USD in the Carnegie Building, the previous University Library. During that era, from 1963 to 1968 under Director and anthropology professor James Howard, the museum employed five staff members and several specialized curators (usually USD faculty members), in addition to the Director, who reported directly to the President of USD. When the Museum moved to the Carnegie Building in 1967, the non-profit organization, Friends of the W.H. Over Museum, was formed by faculty women to support the Museum monetarily and to help increase community participation in Museum activities. The group also developed and managed a S August OLLI Strengthens Bond With Vermillion Life-long learners in the Vermillion community have something special to celebrate. OLLI (Osher Lifelong Learning Institute) was formally welcomed as a new member of the Vermillion Chamber with a ribbon cutting and reception at the First Dakota National Bank Gallery, located next to Coyote Twin Theatres in downtown Vermillion. Following the ribbon cutting, the audience moved to one of the theatres to hear Timothy Schorn, associate professor of political science at the University of South Dakota, present a lecture entitled “What In The World Is Happening (In The World?).” The lecture is just a sample of the learning opportunities available to Vermillion citizens. Vermillion courses scheduled for this fall deal with serious subjects, such as long term care needs, a session that teaches participants how to deal with agerelated memory changes and class about pain management without opioids. Cultural offerings are also available, including courses on basket making, ceramics, preserving fresh produce and presentations that touch on aspects of local history. The sessions are presented by local citizens with expertise in the wide variety of OLLI courses. “This is a new exposure to let people know about all the things we are doing with OLLI,” said Nancy Wehrkamp of Sioux Falls who is the director of OLLI in South Dakota. “We’ve been here for quite a few years but we hadn’t yet joined the Chamber, and we thought it was time to finally do that. “We decided that it is so important for us to do that,” she said, “because we want to be part of the community and we want to make sure that people know about us and we also have a better connection with the city itself.” OLLI is directed toward people who are retired or semi-retired, “but you don’t have to be,” Wehrkamp said. “You can be a person who is curious about learning without getting any continuing education credits. Our classes don’t have tests, homework or stress and there are no credits associated with it – it’s basically learning for the love it. “We have classes in history and current events, we have literature, we have science, math and technology,” she said. “We have health and wellness classes, we have fine arts classes.” Presenters range from active to retired USD professors, Wehrkamp said, and also include other community members in the education field, novice historians and people with expertise in other subject areas. teenagers in Clay County will receive training that will help them respond to disasters and in turn, help their neighbors better cope when severe weather, fire or other happenings create an emergency situation. “I also hope that more than just high school students become aware of this program,” Hollenbeck, the 4-H Youth Program Advisor in Clay, Union and Yankton counties, said. “We want people to be aware of this (program) because after the students participate in the class, the goal is that they will prepare a disaster supply kit for themselves and for six other families. “There’s a chance that somebody in the community might be approached by a high school student and be asked to commit to building one of these supply kits as part of their requirement to graduate this course,” she said. The program is called My Preparedness Initiative, or MyPI. It is focused on disaster preparedness, specifically for youth. It allows them to be leaders in their neighborhoods and to learn valuable life skills using a hands-on method. “This fall, the Clay County Sheriff’s Department Deputy Paul Pederson and I with 4-H are excited to have partnered to offer a new program through Vermillion High School and Irene-Wakonda High School,” Hollenbeck said. “ I’d really like to get awareness out, because I would like kids to sign up for the class but also because community members may be asked to be a part of it – some may be asked to help teach lessons if they are a firefighter, EMT, or in emergency management.” Youth who complete the program will be certified in CPR & AED use and the operation of HAM radios. They get hands-on experience in the event that a natural disaster or state of emergency happens in the community. “These youth will know what to do and can help assist first responders,” Hollenbeck said. “They get hands-on experience with fire extinguishers and at the conclusion of the class, a disaster simulation.” W.H. Over Museum Celebrating 135th Birthday Next Weekend Next weekend, the W. H. Over Museum will celebrate an incredible milestone: 135 years of existence. The museum, which receives no state or federal funding and operates through donations and fundraising only, is the oldest museum in South Dakota and has played an important role in Vermillion’s history. Everyone is invited to celebrate the 135th Birthday of the W. H. Over Museum on Sunday, Sept. 16, at the museum from 2 until 4 p.m. Birthday cake and light refreshments will be served, and, of course, the museum and its gift shop will be open and available for browsing during that time. There is much at the museum that should not be missed, said Larry Bradley, volunteer co-director of the museum and a retired USD anthropology professor. “A visit to the museum provides an educational opportunity,” he said. “The Over Museum has a range of cultural and natural materials of the region including EuroAmerican and Native American artifacts and ancient fossils millions of years old. We provide tangible evidence for learning about South Dakota’s past. … The staff takes pride in the range of materials exhibited in newly created displays of Native American technology, immigrant settler’s adaptations and the shift to modern technology in rural areas.” Bradley, who has been involved with the W. H. Over Museum for 12 years, says that the museum is unique not only because of its status as the oldest museum in South Dakota, but also because it survives thanks to a strong network of volunteers, Friends of the W.H. Over Museum supporters, and community supporters, like Clay County, the City of Vermillion, and USD, among others. “The museum currently has four paid employees: a custodian, a receptionist, a data entry person and a collections manager,” said Bradley. “One of these positions is funded through a state works program. All other staff and board members volunteer their time and skills to keep the museum doors open. … The museum depends on volunteers. The volunteers provide skills in management, archival research, construction of exhibits, advertising, fundraising and E tina continued to act under the direction and control of the Russian official for the purpose of advancing the interests of the Russian Federation after she entered the United States.” The Russian official, whose identity is known to the grand jury, is a Russian citizen and a high-level official in the Russian government. 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