MY BOOK……..LILAGCS B4 (Blog 27)

September 12, 2012
Editor’s Note: It has been almost a month since I have posted a Blog here. I have taken a short break from writing in this Blog. I have spent time working on other articles that I post in another Blog ,,,One Day at A Time Blog. I just finished writing an article about our trip to Cape Cod, Massachusetts back in the 60s. I received some very good comments from my classmates on the Blog. I just want to thank those that read and responded to that Blog at: http://onedayatatimebydrdave.blogspot.com/    
                                   “Our trip to the East Coast”


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MY College Years

Buena Vista my senior year

While I was attending BV (Buena Vista) I ended up getting involved in a number of extracurricular activities. I was the art editor of the “Log” it was the yearbook that was published each year.

Photo of a 1968 copy of The Log

I also was the art editor of the “Tack” the school newspaper

Current copy of the TACK Not available

My senior years two of us were selected for a journalism scholarship as co-editors of the “Tack”. I remember when Miss Stolley presented Sally Shevel and I with our scholarship certificates. I ended up being the Managing Editor and again I snuck under the fence so I didn’t have to demonstrate my lack of reading ability.

I remember I was responsible for the story in the “Tack” and the photographs of the completion of the tower with the cross when it was placed on the chapel on the south side of the administration building. I had a friend type for me  as I dictated the story.

All of this happened BC (Before Computers) during my senior year at BV I devoted as much time as I could to the development of DaLe (my family business) In order for me to graduate at the end of 1963, I had to take 21 hours of credits. (the normal work load was 16 credit hours.)

Fortunately I had met and gotten well acquainted with a very influential professor in my Business Management field. Dr. Mathew Faith had come to Buena Vista the year before and held PhD’s in Law, Accounting, a Medical degree and Business Management. He was from South Dakota and we had mutual ties at USD (the University where I attended)

All but 3 of my 21 hours were classes in business courses. My senior thesis was a dissertation on the founding and development of DaLe, (the family business). It was published and placed the Buena Vista library.

I received a grade of “A” in all the 18 credit hours. He had made it clear that he did not believe in written tests and gave grades bases on “practical application” these were all based on his judgment.

We would go to a stock exchange. For example and spend time observing the application of the use of the stock exchange in business management. We went to actual businesses and experienced the businesses in action, then reported on what we saw. Again I escaped the “reading” of questions on written tests; my evaluation was all “practical application”. He also told us that if we attended class every day we would be assured an “A” grade. (I liked that teacher attitude!)

I would drive to USD (University of South Dakota)  and lecture on the development of DaLe and how my Art education in graphic arts at USD had been utilized in a practical way
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Dr. Faith paid for my  expenses In addition to my cost of attending his classes. He made arrangements at USD for the  transportation to USD and back plus when I was selected to receive an “honorary” PhD in graphic arts because of my extra efforts…. he was the main reason I received the honorary degree.

His wife (20 years his junior) was a Medical Doctor and he built her a Medical Clinic in Avon, South Dakota for her wedding present.

My grade point received a big boost with my senior year credits
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With all of this behind me I graduated in May of 1963 from Buena Vista with a double major in Business Management and Graphics plus an “honorary” doctor’s degree in Graphic Arts from USD


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