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Commencement Senior Class Message
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TitleCommencement Senior Class Message
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TranscriptOffice of University Relations SDSM& T News 501 E. St. Joseph Street Rapid City, SD 57701- 3995 Phone: ( 605) 394- 6082/ 2554 Fax: ( 605) 394- 6177 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ( December 17, 1998) GILLETTE STUDENT TO PRESENT SENIOR CLASS MESSAGE AT SDSM& T'S WINTER COMMENCEMENT ON SATURDAY, DECEMBER 19 Dawn Recker of Gillette, who will graduate with a Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry, will give the senior class representative's message at SDSM& T's winter commencement this Saturday, December 19. South DakotaTech's 138th commencement will begin at 10: 00 a. m., in the Rushmore Plaza Civic Center Theater. Eleanor Swent, a native of Lead, SD who is an oral historian specializing in mining history at the University of California- Berkeley, will give the commencement address. SDSM& T President Dr. Richard J. Gowen also will present Ms. Swent with an honorary degree as Doctor of Letters and Literature. Eleanor Swent is senior editor and specialist in mining history at the Regional Oral History Office, a division of the Bancroft Library, foremost repository of western American history, at the University of California at Berkeley. She is project director and research interviewer for the oral history series on Western Mining in the 20th Century which documents the lives of leaders in mining, metallurgy, geology, education in the earth and materials sciences, mining law, and the pertinent government bodies. The series includes the oral history of the late A. I. Johnson, distinguished SDSM& T alumnus and mine operator in the southern Black Hills. The volume on three Homestake mine workers, Clarence Kravig, Wayne Harford and Kenneth Kinghorn, documents various aspects of work in that mine. Eleanor Swent was born in Lead. Her mother, a geology major, and her father, a metallurgist and mining engineer, met through a college geology field trip in the Black Hills. Her father, Nathaniel Herz, became chief metallurgist for Homestake Mining Company and lived in Lead until he died just before his 90th birthday. Her mother continued to live in Lead, renewed her driver's license at the age of 94 and drove her Jeep Wagoneer until shortly before her death. ++ 30++ ( I:\ univrel\ pressrele\ 1298\ Commencement Senior Class Message fax/ Gillette)
CreatorSouth Dakota School of Mines and Technology. University Relations;
SubjectCommencement ceremonies -- South Dakota -- South Dakota School of Mines and Technology;
Local SubjectSouth Dakota School of Mines and Technology
Digital PublisherSouth Dakota School of Mines and Technology. Devereaux Library
Date1998-12-17
TypeText
Formatapplication/pdf
Languageeng
RelationIs part of Office of University Relations SDSM&T News Collection
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Submitting InstitutionDevereaux Library. South Dakota School of Mines and Technology.
Date Digital2009
CONTENTdm number1526
CONTENTdm file name1527.pdf
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