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Alumnus of the Year
Ken Haines, a 1964 graduate from Charlotte, N.C., received the
2005 Alumnus of the Year award. Haines is the president and CEO
of Raycom Sports, the largest independent sports network in the
country. He has been called an innovator in the sports television
and marketing arena because of the relationships he has formed
with major television networks for coverage of college basketball
and football games.
Haines, a former member of the DWU Board of Trustees, is instrumental
in negotiating contracts with major college conferences. He also
organized Charlotte’s Continental Tire Bowl, an immediate
success story in postseason college football that generated millions
of dollars for the city of Charlotte.
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Outstanding Service
to Alma Mater
Don Screes, a 1960 graduate
from Tucson, Ariz., received the 2005 Outstanding Service
to Alma Mater award. Screes, formerly of Mitchell,
began working for DWU in 1963 as an admissions counselor. He left
the university in 1971 to pursue a master’s degree from Arizona
State University. He returned to DWU in 1988 as director of development
and in 1990 he became alumni director. He retired from DWU in 2001.
Screes was instrumental is organizing the university’s first
Alumni Days. He also reorganized the alumni board into its present
format and established the Class Challenge and Class Agent programs.
Additionally, he personally secured the funds needed to refurbish
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Outstanding Professional
Achievement
Sam Muyskens, a 1963 graduate from Wichita, Kan., received the
2005 Outstanding Professional Achievement award. Muyskens is executive
director of Inter-Faith Ministries, an inter-religious organization
that administers 12 major programs focusing on the needs of children,
youth and the elderly.
Muyskens led the growing organization from one that had no assets
and a $200,000 program debt in 1992, to one that has assets in
excess of $2.5 million today. He also travels back and forth to
Haiti where he helped build a school and medical clinic, an assembly
plant that produces solar ovens and a micro-lending bank. He also
initiated a nutrition program. |
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Outstanding Educator
LeRoy Hollenbeck, a 1950 graduate from Palm Springs, Calif., received
the 2005 Outstanding Educator award. Hollenbeck taught high school
English, speech and drama for 52 years, 38 of which were spent
in the Fullerton Joint Union High School District of Southern California.
He served the last several years as head of the English department,
leading a staff of 23 teachers. He retired in 2002.
Hollenbeck taught an international baccalaureate course to gifted
students for several years. The course allowed them to earn college
credit in high school. He also taught students with poor English
skills and directed plays and musicals. |
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Humanitarian of the
Year
Gladys Hall, a 1973 graduate from Mitchell, received the 2005
Humanitarian of the Year award. Hall has served as the executive
director for the Mitchell Area Safehouse since 1990. She has also
worked as a preschool teacher; the director of Project Threshold,
a group home for girls; and as a probation officer. In 1997, she
established the first third-party child visitation center in the
state.
Hall is also credited with initiating the Common Sense Parenting
Program and support groups for victims of abuse. Additionally,
her Domestic Abuse Intervention Project has led the courts to sentence
abusers to a mandatory program to teach them how to conduct themselves
while living with family members. |
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Young Alumna of the
Year
Toby Russell, a detective with the Mitchell Police Department
and a 1998 graduate, received the 2005 Young Alumnus of the Year
Award.
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