| Summary: | HONORABLE MENTION MSGR. GEORGE P. ABERLE, pastor Of St. Mary's Catholic Church at Hague, had a long and distinguished career as a clergyman and author. He wrote "From the Steppes to the Prairies", then wrote two volumes entitled "Pioneers and their Sons". He was promoted to Protonatory Apostolic in 1965, the highest rank of monsignors. MARINE CORPORAL ROBERT J. ALBRECHT, rural Linton, became a member of the Guard Co. at Washington, D.C. as a member of the ceremonial unit. He was a pallbearer at the funeral of the late Senator Robert Kennedy, and also at the funeral of former U.S. President, Dwight D. Eisenhower. He accompanied the body to Abilene, Kansas for the burial services. MYRLE S. ANDERSON, Temvik H.S. graduate, was elected President of the Minnesota Automobile Dealers Association in Dec. 1974. He is president and general manager of Anderson Pontiac Co. in Moorhead, Minn. He received the "Quality Dealer Award" presented by Time Magazine. JOHN BACKHAUS, Linton, was selected for inclusion in the 1970 volume of "Outstanding College Athletes of America". PATTY BACKHAUS, Linton, became "Miss Rodeo North Dakota" and competed for the title of U.S. Rodeo Queen at Las Vegas, Nev. HENRY BALLIET, Linton HS graduate, was program administrator for the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Nome, Alaska, and selected by the Office of Education, Washington, D.C, to attend a seminar held at the Educational Research Center in New Delhi, India, for 6 weeks study and 2 weeks of research and travel in Calcutta, Madras and Bombay areas. He moved to Alaska in 1966 to work with the Eskimos. TOM BAUMGARTNER, Strasburg, became a member of "Who's Who in National High School Athletics" in 1973. He was an all-conference selection in football, and was named his team's most valuable basketball player. JOSEPH BAUMSTARCK, Linton, is a trophy winner in the State Class B Speech tournament, 1st boy to be named top student librarian, a member of the National Honor Society and an outstanding Grit salesman. BOB BECKER, Linton HS graduate, had a poem, entitled "Stuffing", published in "National Poetry Anthology, 1974". He also wrote a fiction novel about teaching while he was in Australia. He was elected president of the Warracknabeal Jaycee chapter in Australia in 1972. RON BECKER, 21, Pollock, and a friend rescued a fraternity brother when the Tau Kappa Epsilon house burned in Fargo. After getting him out of the burning room, they applied artificial respiration, thus sustaining his life until the emergency equipment arrived to revive him. Ron was the recipient of the "Yes" award for responding unselfishly in an emergency, to a person in need. RUSSELL BECKER, 1952 Linton HSgraduate, isa commerical artist. He has illustrated two books published by A. G. Rand and Co. One is called "The Commodore Perry Story". DENNIS BENZ, Hazelton, received the 1966 State Class B "Outstanding Player" award. DENNIS BESTGE, Linton, 1st year manager of the local J.C Penney Store, acquired the largest percent sales gain (42 percent) over the 1,800 J. C Penney stores in the United States in 1975. HOWARD BIER, Hazelton, served in the House of Representatives for 7 consecutive terms and was elected Speaker of the House in 1971. He served 2 terms on the U.S. President's Advisory Committee on Agriculture, receiving his certification from Sec. of Agriculture, Earl Butz, He has been appointed as a member of the ASCS. MARK BITZ, Linton High School senior, won a State Class B wrestling title in the 155 pound division in Feb., 1975. MRS. WALTER BOHLIN was presented with a plaque recognizing her 47 years of membership in the Wildrose Homemakers Club. She was a charter member in the oldest Emmons County club, and held offices 33 of those years. ERNEST BORR. JR., Strasburg High School graudate, was head music man at Mandan High School for 14 years, became director of instrumental music and assistant professor in the Div. of Humanities at Mary College, Bismarck. He is a past president of the NDEA Music Educators Association. JOEY BORR, formerly of Strasburg, is an artist in Jamestown. Her paintings have won awards and high praise at the Fine Arts Association show. A recent picture "Steeples of Jamestown" has been reproduced on note paper and is being sold to benefit a Stutsman County charity. WILLARD W. BRANDT, State Commander of the American Legion in 1959 was elected one of five National Vice Commanders the following year. KATHLEEN LILJA CHAUDHRY, Linton, lives in Lahore, Pakistan with her husband and 4 children. Anwar Aziz Chaudhry, her husband, is a key government administrator. He is the managing director of the Livestock, Dairy and Poultry Development Board for the state of Punjab. THE REV. THOMAS. CONWAY, C.PP.S., assistant pastor of the Linton St. Anthony's Catholic Church, wrote the script of an episode in the "Combat" series on ABC-TV. He also wrote the words of a song called "Marching Home for Christmas", but had help from Lawrence Welk in composing the music. He wrote the script for an original program "The Christmas Bells" which was aired on radio station KSJB, Jamestown. GEORGE W. CORNOG, Manager of KEM Electric Co-op of Linton, was elected President of the Midwest Electric Consumers Association, a 9-state regional organization serving 1,500,000 consumers in the Missouri Basin. In 1971 he received the North Dakota Association of Rural Electric's "Man of the Year" award. KATHLEEN DEKREY, formerly of Linton, won top State honors at the annual nationwide 4-H competition in 1972. In 1971 she was a member of the court of honor at the State Dress Revue. AL DOSCH, 1950 Strasburg High School graduate, was nominated for the title of North Dakota Class B Coach of the Year in 1972. As a coach he had one of the best football records of any high school coach in the State. MRS. MIKE (HELEN) DOSCH, free school lunch advocate, was nominated as a candidate for the position of Midwest Regional Director of the American School Food Service Association. She attended a legislative workshop in Washington, D.C. to meet with Senators Young and Burdick and Congressman Andrews. THE REV. GREG DUES, assistant pastor of St. Anthony Catholic Church, Linton, from 1966-68, has published a handbook for church migrant programs, which has been adopted by both the Catholic and Protestant migrant ministry. Father Dues left Linton to serve the Mexican-American Apostolate on a permanent basis as a special missionary in St. Peter's parish in Rocky Ford, Colorado. REV. HERMAN EFFA, former pastor of the First Baptist Church of Linton, and his wife, served a three-year tour of duty as missionaries to Brazil. CHERYL ENGLEMAN, former Hazelton High School student, won 1st place award at the North Dakota State Fair, from the North Dakota Veterinary Medical Association Auxiliary for the outstanding exhibit in the field of biological science; North Dakota Academy of Science award for 2nd place sweepstakes winner; citation from the American Society for Microbiology for one of the best projects in that field. In 1968 she was selected to be one of 14 at the State HS Science Fair to exhibit her project at the International Science Fair at Fort Worth, Texas, going on to Baltimore in 1970. JAMES ENGLEMAN, Hazelton, received a letter of commendation honoring him for high per formance on the 1971 scolastic aptitude test of the National Merit Scholarship. He rated in the top 2 percent of high school students in the U.S. JERRY ENGLERTH, Linton High School class of 1949, was head of the science department of Cuttington College for Vh years at Liberia, West Africa. DUANE EVENSON, Linton, Emmons County FHA supervisor, was selected to appear in the 1971 edition of "Outstanding Young Men of America", an annual awards volume honoring the achievements and abilities of the nation's finest young men. DARCY FAHLSING, Linton, was the Operations Officer of "Angel Flight", and auxiliary of the Arnold Air Society in 1974. She represented the UNSU contingent in a 5 state contest during the "Little Colonel" competition. KELLY FISCHER, Hague, at 21 was the 1974 North Dakota champion livestock auctioneer. As such, he is the youngest ever to win the State title and probably the youngest in most, if not all, of the U.S. COLLEEN FLEGEL, Linton, received an expense paid trip to the 48th annual Association of Collegiate Press and National Council of College Publications convention in 1972. WM. E. FLEGEL, Cubmaster, was cited by the American Legion for his 20 years of work with the Scouting program in Linton. In 1970 he was presented the Silver Scout Award for outstanding service to Scouting. ROBERT D. GAUKLER, mayor of Linton for 10 years, was elected president of the North Dakota League of Cities at its 41st annual convention. He had served as vice president, and two terms as a trustee. This position made him a delegate to the National League of Cities convention at Honolulu, Hawaii. He is Emmons County Commissioner of the third district. ADAM GEFREH, Emmons Attorney, served in the House of Representatives, and in the Senate, and was elected a District County Judge in 1962. He resigned as Judge of the Third Judicial District to accept a position as Hearing Examiner with the Bureau of Hearing Appeals, Social Security Administration, Department of Health, Education and Welfare. ANTONIA GOETZ, Linton, was among the 1600 delegates attending the 1971 national meeting of Future Homemakers of America in Kansas City, Mo. She is the first girl from Linton to hold an FHA State office. RICHARD GRENZ, president of the Strasburg State Bank, was elected the North Dakota State Commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. He has been named an All-American Commander for his leadership during 1974-75. He is president of the Southwest Group Bankers Association. IRVIN GROGAN, native of the Omio area, spent 35 years in service at federal prisons. He joined the U.S. Federal Prison System in 1939, serving at Leavenworth Federal Prison in Kansas, Sandstone Federal Correctional Institution in Minnesota, and at Terre Haute, Indiana. It was said that the big 6'3" red-faced Irishman could outwork any 10 inmates. BEN G. GUSTAFSON, Supt. of the Linton schools in the early 1930s, was dean of the Division of Continuing Education at the University of North Dakota. He joined the UND chemistry department in 1941. During WWII he was employed as a quality control chemist by the American Foods Co. HUGH J. HANSEN, a Kintyre native, as president of the American Society of Agricultural Engineeers (ASAE); was publisher-editorial director of "Electricity on the Farm" magazine. From 1952 to 1955 he was on the staff of Perdue University, teaching and doing research in agricultural engi neering. TERRY HAVEMAN, Linton, was serving aboard the USS Lake Champlain, an aircraft carrier which participated in recovery operations for Navy Commander Alan Shepard, first U.S. Astronaut. KATHY HOGUE, Linton, won a trip to Washing ton, D.C. in one of KEM Electric's essay contests. She was crowned 1969 Miss North Dakota Teenager, and received the title of National Cover Girl for 1969, and had her picture on Co-Ed Magazine and was featured in a story in that publication. In 1970 she was named Outstanding Teenager for North Dakota. PATTY HOGUE, Linton, was crowned Miss Emmons County and became the 1973 Junior Miss of North Dakota. She was named to a group known as "Who's Who Among High School Seniors". In 1974 she was a finalist in the National Model of the Year, and has been modeling for Steward Model Agency in New York. MRS. LAVONNE HOLZ, was named on the list of Outstanding Young Women of America for 1972. She was an active member of the Dickinson State College Journalism staff and served as editor of the college paper, "Western Concept". For 3 years she served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Brazil. GEORGE J. HORNER, Linton, invented a device to make covering a truck box with a tarp a comparatively easy job. The invention attracted much favorable attention at the 2nd annual North Dakota Inventors Congress. JAKE HUBER, Temvik, was honored in 1975 for having served 38 years on the Temvik Farmers Elevator Board, 20 years of which he was president. JOE IBACH, Linton High School graduate, received the H. J. Wienbergen Award for best athlete of Dickinson State College in 1975. He received honorable mention on the all NDCAC conference team in his 1st two year; was all conference his junior and senior years; was on the NAIA all Dist. 12 squad his senior year and judged state champion heavyweight wrestler in the Class B tournament in - 169 Scanned with a Zeutschel Zeta book scanner at 300 dpi. Edited with Multi-Page TIFF Editor.
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