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van Sunday, December 18, 1994 The Bismarck Tribune Page3E HOMETOWN Open Your Heart campaign needs gifts, volunteers evening at 7 p.m. to pack the baskets. Basket delivery will begin at 8 a.m. Friday. Drivers with enclosed vehicles will be needed.

All activities at the Civic Center will take place in the loading and exhibition area on the south side of the new addition. Access to this area is from the east parking lot off Bowen Ave. Contributions may be mailed to Open Your Heart, Box 753, Bismarck, N.D. 58502. baskets.

Roesler said the committee plans to approve requests for 360 food baskets this season. Food for the baskets has been ordered. Longtime food basket chairman Robert "Booty" Boutrous, said, "Many people don't realize that we buy about 75 percent of the food needed, including all of the big-ticket items like turkeys, milk, bread, coffee, sugar, flour, oleo, potatoes, apples, cookies, peanuts and Christmas candy." The annual Open Your Heart campaign, sponsored by Lloyd Spetz Post No. 1 of the American Legion, is in full swing, but donations have been slow so far, according to John Conyne, general chairman. Only a little more than half of the $30,000 budgeted for the 1994 campaign has been received, he said.

"All of our committees are functioning," Conyne said. "We're hoping for another banner year; but to reach our goals, we need the help of the good citizens of Bismarck and Burleigh County. They have been more than generous in past years, and we are asking that they once again 'open their This is the program's 66th year. An investigating committee, headed by Bob Roesler, comprises representatives of nursing, welfare, housing, employment, the Salvation Army and city and county agencies, screens requests for the Many of the remaining items, mostly canned and boxed food, are donated by school children and by businesses, groups and organizations of Bismarck and Burleigh County. A committee headed by Howard Wolfe has purchased clothing for 130 children of the most needy families in the campaign area.

Boutrous said volunteers will be needed to help sort food at the Bismarck Civic Center at 9 a.m. Thursday and that 3 Diesz earns r. Jaycees treat refugee children HEARTS O' GOLD sang Christmas carols and had a lunch donated by McDonald's. Each child also received gloves or a stocking hat as a present from the Jaycees. The children were chosen by Lutheran Social Services, an agency instrumental in relocating many refugee families in the community.

Children represented many countries, including Ukraine and Romania. Funds for the shopping trip were raised through the Jaycees annual haunted house and Vikings basketball game. Twenty-one refugee children had a fun-filled shopping day Dec. 10, thanks to a group of Bismarck Jaycees who took the children shopping as part of their 1994 Bismarck Jaycees Christmas Shopping Tour. The children had juice and doughnuts before beginning their shopping at K-Mart, where each child received $30 to spend on gifts.

The small shoppers attended a Christmas party at Jaycee Leadership Hall at Jaycee Centennial Park. Children wrapped the presents they bought, made thank-yous for the sponsors, created tree ornaments, NASA prize Melissa Deisz has received NASA research fellowships for the spring 1994 and fall 1994 semesters. The fellowships are sponsored by the University of North Dakota Space Studies program. Deisz is participating in research to create polymeric materials that hold potential for space studies and equipment. She has been involved in synthetic organic research since 1993.

CAMPUS NOTES i Wide variety of help agenices receive Otto Bremer funding V.r 1 linnlfM 1 nonprofit organizations. The North Dakota Humanities Council Bismarck, received $25,000 to produce a documentary television program on the exodus of young people from the state of North Dakota and responses to this phenomenon. Richardton Park District was awarded $5,500 to develop a new community playground. United Tribes Technical College, Bismarck, received $13,985 to train nurses in communication and psychomotor skills. The Bremer Foundation gives to programs benefiting communities in North Dakota, Minnesota and northwestern Wisconsin; it gives priority to programs dealing with rural poverty and racism.

It supports programs in the areas of community affairs, human services, health and higher education. Nine area groups have received grants from the Otto Bremer Foundation, headquartered in St. Paul, Minn. Sakakawea Girl Scout Council, Bismarck, received $20,000 for an education exhibit, "Anne Frank, A Child of the World." Charles Hall Youth Services, Bismarck, received $10,900 to increase staff of their foster care program for troubled and abused adolescents. Minot Public Schools received $6,000 to purchase playground equipment for use by children with disabilities at Perkett Elementary School.

Nedrose Public Schools in Minot also received $6,000 to purchase equipment and make improvements for the playground. The North Dakota Community Foundation, Bismarck, was awarded $17,000 to study the feasibility or organizing a statewide association of 'AIrW. A v.l Salvation Army's reach extended through work of many helpers By MIKE MCCLEARY ol I he Tribune areas on behalf of the Salvation Army. Christmas bell ringers are still needed in the Stanley, Linton, Ashley, Dickinson and Valley City areas. Donations given to the Salvation Army stay in the giver's county to help with local needs, according to Odell.

For more information, or to volunteer, call 800-735-9625, or contact Odell at Box 3005, Bismarck, N.D. 58502. About 1,500 gifts for 20 North Dakota counties have been packaged by students from the North Dakota Industrial School in Mahdan for the Service Extension Program of the North Dakota Salvation Army. Sixteen volunteers and carolers distributed 50 gifts at the Golden Manor Nursing Home in Steele Dec. 8.

Greg Odell, state field representative for the Salvation Army, has completed 1,535 of his trek to North Dakota's rural SEASON'S GENEROSITY: The 6th District Medical Alliance went beyond the call of duty this holiday season with its annual gift donations to the Adult Abused Resource Center. The spouses of members from the North Dakota Medical Association received 110 names from the AARC and the group came back with nearly 300 gifts. Kneeling amongst a few presents are, from left, Lisa Mendoza, Maria Black of the AARC, Kathy England and Sandy Hyland. Leach Foundation bestows wealth on North Dakota colleges, agencies Deisz is a senior at North Dakota State University majoring in chemistry. She is graduate of St.

Mary's Central High School. Her parents are Mike and Angie Deisz of Bismarck. Schmid sings in Luther choir Sophomore Mark Schmid, son of Donald and Sylvia Schmid, Bismarck, is a member of the 1994-95 Luther College Cathedral Choir, Decorah, Iowa. The 86-voice choir performs on campus and will tour in the spring. Serine, Hodge elected in sorority Sherrie Senne and Tiff Hodge, both of Bismarck, have been elected to positions in the Alpha Theta chapter of Delta Gamma sorority at the University of North Dakota in Grand Forks.

Senne was elected Panhellenic delegate, and Hodge was elected Well Aware chair of Alpha Theta. Delta Gamma is a national scholarship, service and leadership sorority. LaDuke wins Harvard honor Jason LaDuke, a 1991 graduate of Century High School, has been awarded the honorary Harvard College Scholarship in recognition of his high academic achievement. He has been on the dean's list for six consecutive semesters. LaDuke, a senior majoring in government at Harvard University, is president of the A.D.

Club and a varsity football letterman. Rice elected Pan Hellenic president Kristin Rice, daughter of Jon and Roberta Rice, Bismarck, has been elected president of the North Dakota State University Pan Hellenic Council at Fargo. Rice, a senior in architecture, is a member of the American Institute of Architecture Students, Rho Lambda and Kappa Delta sorority. The Pan Hellenic Council is the governing body of all sororities on campus. Area students receive nurses' caps Among practical nursing students who received nursing caps and pins at a ceremony this week from the North Dakota State College of Science were Lori Huber of Bismarck, Jennifer Bruce of Williston, Paul Klein and Christine Volk, both of Minot.

The ceremonies were held at the NDSCS campus in Wahpeton and at Trinity Nursing Home Centre in Minot, through NDSCS's satellite program there. The capping marks the completion of students' preclinical campus and clinical studies during their two-year associate degree program. Dagnault earns college degree Vivian Ann (Hoffman) Dagnault, Minneapolis, was among the students at The College of St. Catherine, St. Paul, who received degrees at winter commencement.

Dagnault is the daughter of Philip and Irene Hoffman. She received a bachelor's degree in business administration. From left, Mary Beckler, Mary Ell, Liz Fisher, Anastasia Miller and Catherine Saunders. Uuitar player is janene wass. uick Corcoran, background, was the master of ceremonies.

Residents entertain peers, staff in St. Vincent's show Girl Scout Council For Towner Girl Scout Troops, Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation, Ronald McDonald House in Bismarck, Rolette County Senior Meals Services, Ruth Meiers Hospitality House, St. Alexius Medical Center's Hospice Care Program, St. Mary's Central High School, Salvation Army of Bismarck, School of Hope, Sertoma Club of Bismarck, Shiloh Christian School, Sleepy Hollow Summer Theatre, Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, Sweet Adelines, Theodore Roosevelt Medora Foundation, Towner Senior Citizens Club, University of Mary, University of North Dakota's School of Communication, Young Life of Bismarck-Mandan, $4,000. Officers and directors for the Leach Foundation are Paul Schliesman of Golden Valley, and Ernest Fleck, James Wachter, Russell Mather, Robert Hendrickson, Frank Bavendick, Brian Bjella, and Gilbert Olson, all of Bismarck.

Clement Weber, Bismarck, is executive director. of America Northern Lights Council, Burleigh-Morton Volunteer Caregiver Exchange, Charles Hall Youth Services, Dakota Junior Golf Association, Dakota Stage Limited, Dakota Zoological Society, Fort Abraham Lincoln Foundation, Girl Scouts of America Sakakawea Council, Great Plains Assistance Dogs, Jamestown College, Just Say No of the Dakotas, Make-A-Wish Foundation, Medcenter One's Diabetes Education Program, Medical Center Rehabilitation Hospital Foundation (CETP Program), Medical Center Rehabilitation Hospital Foundation (Rehab Program), Minot State University's Division of Music, Minot State University's Division of Special Education, Missouri Slope Areawide United Way, Missouri Valley Family YMCA, North Dakota FFA Foundation, North Dakota 4-H Foundation, North Dakota Literacy, North Dakota Safety Council, Northwest ND Fifty-three grants, including a $50,000 gift to the University of Mary, have been awarded by the Tom and Frances Leach Foundation Inc. A total of $337,300 went to help agencies throughout North Dakota and the Midwest. The University of Mary gift will be used for student scholarships through the Leach Memorial Scholarship established in 1986 in honor of Tom and Frances Leach, pioneers of the North Dakota oil industry. Leach, often called the father of North Dakota oil because of his persistent search for oil in the WUliston Basin, formed North American Royalties Inc in 1953.

Those receiving Leach Foundation grants and the amounts: Abused Adult Resource Center, American Diabetes Association, Big BrotherBig Sister Program, Bismarck Arts and Galleries Association, Bismarck Meals on Wheels, Bismarck State College Foundation, Bis-Man Transit Board, Bismarck-Mandan Civic Chorus, Bismarck-Mandan Orchestral Association, Boy Scouts Hildegard Schwindt. Talent performances included singing, dancing, poetry and music, guitar, harmonica and xylophone numbers. Highlight of the event was the grand finale, according to activity coordinator Janelle Glass, when participants joined hands with staff, family and friends to sing "Will the Circle Be Unbroken?" while forming a unity circle around the audience, symbolizing the unity needed to overcome difficulties during St. Vincent's renovation process, currently under way. Residents of St.

Vincent's Nursing Home in Bismarck entertained staff, visitors and other residents at St. Vincent's annual talent show Nov. 15. Eleven talent presentations involved 17 performers, including Lawrence Klein, Georgia Ayers, Emelia Berger, Margaret Doppler, Rose Vetter, Liz Fisher, Mary EU, Mary Ann Beckler, Catherine Saunders, Anastasia Miller, George McKenna, Vince Eckroth, Ida Edwards, Pauline Bonnet, Sister Agnes Moran, Sister Carol Woida, Sister Benigna Weisbeck and Sister Lubka presented Prairie Peacemaker award Fayetteville, N.C. President of First Security Mortgage Corp.

of Fayetteville, Holden is a graduate of Fayetteville State University and studied at the Mortgage Bankers Association of America. He is a licensed general contractor, real estate broker and a former president of the Mortgage Bankers Association. Holden is also a former director of the Volunteer Center of Fayetteville and the Cape Fear Community Volunteers. was its president in 1991 and 1992. The North Dakota Peace Coalition and its 19 member organizations speak out on behalf of peaceful and just community choices.

Holden takes seat on bank board Leslie A. Holden, son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Holden of Bismarck, has been named to the board of directors of First Union National Bank, to the United National Development Programme in Egypt, a lecturer in India and a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Benin in Nigeria. Lubka is a member of the North Dakota Martin Luther King Jr.

Holiday Commission and the board of governors of the Fargo-Moorhead Lighthouse, a facility for the poor and homeless. He is a precinct captain for the Democratic NPL party and has been a member of the North Dakota Peace Coalition since 1984; he State University at Fargo. He is currently directing a three-year project seeking alternative uses for the Grand Forks and Minot air bases in the event they are closed. The project is focused on developing industries using wind, photovoltaic and other emerging technologies. While, on the faculty at NDSU, Lubka was a member, officer and then president of the university chapter of the North Dakota Higher Education Association.

Before retiring in 1991, he was a consultant Lewis Lubka of Fargo has received the ninth annual Prairie Peacemaker Award, presented by the North Dakota Peace Coalition at its Fall Peace Congress at the University of North Dakota in Grand Forks. The award is presented each year to an outstanding North Dako-tan who has done distinguished work for peace and justice. Lubka came to North Dakota in 1973 to teach in the graduate program in Community and Regional Planning at North Dakota 5.