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| Spring 2002 | a publication for alumni, family, and friends |
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Dean
Semple Under his direction, the award-winning Chamber Singers of Bakersfield and Porterville Colleges performed at two western division and two national conventions of the American Choral Directors Association. "The teaching of choral music to high school and community college students has been a totally consuming occupation for me," Semple said. "The communication of human emotion through music is the element that excites me as well as my students, who then convey the emotion to the audience. When the expression in music is added to beautiful sound, the feelings of mankind are able to transcend generations." Semple received a bachelor's degree in music education from Dakota Wesleyan in 1955 and a Master of Arts degree from California State University at San Jose in 1962. The American Choral Directors Association of California honored him with the Howard Swan Award. The award is given annually to a conductor, retired from full-time directing, who has made significant contributions to the choral arts in California. Semple has served as president of the California Music Educator Association-Central Section and the Tulare, Kings County Music Educators Association. He has also served as the CMEA's California State Choral Representative and is a life member of the American Choral Directors Association, serving on three national convention boards. Semple and his wife, Joy, are the parents of three grown children and live in Springville, Calif. Douglas
Carpenter Carpenter received his bachelor's degree in music education from DWU in 1950 and a Master of Music degree from the University of South Dakota in 1960, with additional studies at the University of Iowa and South Dakota State University. He was named South Dakota Teacher of the Year in 1975 and became a member of the American Bandmasters Association in 1987. He was one of six band directors inducted in the South Dakota Bandmasters Hall of Fame in 1992. Carpenter has received several awards for his work, including the South Dakota High School Activities Association Distinguished Service Award and the National Federation of Interscholastic Music Association Award for Outstanding Music Educator. Carpenter has served as an adjudicator for numerous parades, marching contests and music contests, and as guest conductor and clinician several times throughout his career. He conducted the United States Army Band on one occasion and the United States Field Forces Band twice. During Would War II, he served two years as a bandsman in the U.S. Army and for more than 20 years as first chair trombone and trombone soloist with the South Dakota Army National Guard. Carpenter and his wife, Donna, live in Watertown and are the parents of four adult children. Marian Dettman
Johnson Johnson is always available and willing to help in any way to promote the university. She presented information on genealogy at the 1998 Alumni Days and will present an Alumni College session about writing memoirs at this summer's Alumni Days. Following her graduation from DWU, Johnson taught music in public schools at Mitchell; Sioux Falls; Westfield, Iowa; and Gibbon, Neb. She retired last year from her position as Elderhostel Lecturer at the University of Nebraska at Kearney. She also was a live-in director and curator of the Frank House, a historic museum owned by the university. She is the past president of the Buffalo County Historical Society and is a past board member of the Trails and Rails Museum. She is a member of the Nebraska State Historical Society, where she served as a board member for historic sites. Johnson represented the state of Nebraska for two terms as a member of the board of advisers for the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Johnson has written several historical articles, which were published by the Buffalo County Historical Society. She and her husband, Dr. Halvin S. Johnson, now deceased, jointly received the University of Nebraska Distinguished Service Award in 1990. Johnson is currently the president of the Pony Express Condominium Association and is a board member of the Golden K Kiwanis group in Kearney, where she lives. Linda Jo Finley
Lockner While living in Cedar City, Utah, where she managed a caseload of 190 clients with disabilities, she was recognized by the Division of Rehabilitation Services in 1994 and 1995. Lockner is currently the president of the South Dakota Chapter of the International Association of Personnel in Employment Security and is a member of the Rapid City Mayor's Committee on Disabilities. She is a certified rehabilitation counselor and holds a valid South Dakota teaching certificate, with endorsements in language arts and social sciences. She is also a certified public manager for the state of Utah and a certified rehabilitation counselor. Since her 1970 graduation from Dakota Wesleyan, she earned a master's degree from Northern State University in 1994, and has lived and worked in Webster, Aberdeen, Eagle Butte and Rapid City, and Cedar City and Provo, Utah. Lockner is in her second year as president of the Rushmore Optimists and she is a life member of the South Dakota Historical Society. The Lockners have a grown daughter. Don Bohning He has covered such world events as the 1973 Pinochet coup in Chile, the 1978 Jonestown Massacre in Guyana and the U.S. invasions of Grenada and Panama in the 1980s. He also reported on the 1976 Republican National Convention in Kansas City and the Democratic National Convention in New York. Bohning graduated from Wesleyan in 1955 and then served in the U.S. Army for two years. In 1959 he earned a bachelor's degree in foreign trade from the American Institute for Foreign Trade in Phoenix. He also did graduate work at the University of Miami. He joined The Miami Herald staff in 1959 as a reporter in its Hollywood (Fla.) bureau and was promoted to bureau chief in 1962. In March of 1964 he was named to The Miami Herald's Latin America staff and became the newspaper's Latin America editor in 1967, holding the position until his retirement in 2000. Bohning has contributed to various publications, including Saturday Review, Coronet, Progressive and Collier's Yearbook. He is an award-winning journalist with a list of citations that includes the James Nelson Goodsell Award for outstanding reporting on Latin America and the Caribbean, presented by Florida International University's Latin America Caribbean Center. In 1987 he shared with other editors and reporters The Miami Herald Pulitzer Prize for national reporting. He was also the winner of the Overseas Press Club's Hal Boyle award for best daily newspaper or wire service reporting for his coverage of Grenada, including the U.S. invasion. Bohning is married to Gerry Morris '55. They have two grown children and live in Fort Lauderdale. Kristy Gould For two years at Cornell University she was a post-doctoral research associate in the psychology department and, in 1999, received a post-doctoral research fellowship. She also served as a guest lecturer on the neurobiology of learning and memory for Cornell. Currently, Gould is an assistant professor of psychology at Luther College in Decorah, Iowa, where she lives with her 4-year-old daughter, Hanna. She teaches general psychology, learning and behavior, and animal cognition at Luther. She has presented information on her research at several universities throughout the country and returned to Wesleyan to speak in 1994, and again as the 1998 Carhart lecturer. In 1994, Gould received a scholarship to attend NATO Advanced Study Institute on behavioral brain research at Maratea, Italy. She conducted research at Repetek National Biosphere Reserve in Turkmenistan, and in 1995 she received the Individual National Research Service Award from the National Institute of Mental Health. Gould is a member of the Animal Behavior Society and the Society for Neuroscience. She is also a reviewer for several journals. Gould will receive her award during homecoming week in October. Dakota Wesleyan University |
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