Broadcaster Press 03 June 17, 2014 www.broadcasteronline.com DAKOTA SENIOR MEALS Served at The Main Street Center & Town Square, “Meals on Wheels” Please call before 9:00am to schedule or cancel a meal at 6247868. Menus listed below are June 18 – June 24. Menus are subject to change without notice. All menus are served with whole grain bread and 1% milk unless otherwise noted Wednesday – Pork Chop, Baked Brown Rice, Broccoli, Fruit Cocktail, Cranberry Juice Thursday – Turkey Tetrazzini, Tossed Salad w/tomatoes, Orange Friday – Chicken Fried Steak, Mashed Potatoes & Gravy, Peas, Apricots Monday – Hot Dog, Baked Beans, Carrot Raisin Salad, Cantaloupe Tuesday – Lasagna, Tossed Salad, Plums, French Bread Daugaard to Girls Staters: Get technical CHAMBER CHAT Vermillion Area Chamber of Commerce & Development Company 116 Market Street, Suite 103 Vermillion, SD 57069 (605) 624-5571 vcdc@vermillionchamb er.com www.vermillionchambe r.com Chamber Business: VCDC Annual Golf Social June 23: Everyone is welcome to join in the fun at The Bluffs Golf Course. The Four-Person Best Ball Scramble Golf Tournament will begin with team sign-in and pictures at 11:45 a.m. and the open format shotgun start is at 1 p.m. The buffet dinner will be served at 6 p.m. followed by the golf awards and door prizes. Call the VCDC office at 624-5571 or e-mail annb@vermillionchamber .com for more information, to register your team, be a hole sponsor, or donate a pin or door prize by June 13. Proceeds from the golf tournament help support the overall efforts of the VCDC. Business after Hours: Are you looking for an opportunity to showcase your business and network with your peers? Sign up to host a Business After Hours event. These events generally run from 5-7 p.m. on a weeknight and the hosting business provides hors d’oeuvres and refreshments. If interested, contact Ann at annb@vermillionchamber .com or at 624-5571. Announcements: Vermillion Area Community Foundation (VACF) updated grant application information. Beginning this year, there are only two grant periods: The second Thursday in April and the second Thursday in October. Grant applications for the second session are due by Sept. 15. Grant guidelines can be found at http://vermillion.sdcomm unityfoundation.org or applications can be picked up at the VCDC, 116 Market St. Summer Food Service Program, now through Aug. 1, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. at Jolley Elementary, 224 S. University, Vermillion. Free lunch will be served each weekday (June 2Aug. 1) for area children age 18 and younger. Closed July 4. For more information, contact vermillionbusinessoffice@ k12.sd.us (Vermillion School District). Story times for toddlers and preschoolers at Vermillion Public Library now through July 24. Call the library at 677-7060 or stop in for days and times. Registration for story rime is required. Berry is interim VP of research The University of South Dakota announced today that Mary Berry, Ph.D., will serve as interim vice president of research effective June 23 following the retirement of Laura Jenski, Ph.D. Berry, a member of the USD faculty since 1990, serves as director of Photo Active Nanoscale Systems (PANS) and director of South Dakota Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (SD IGERT). For more than a decade, she was chair of the Department of Chemistry and has been a professor of chemistry at USD since 2001. “Research is crucial to the mission of the University of South Dakota and I am honored for the opportunity to assist the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs in this period of Berry transition,” Berry said. Berry joined the department of chemistry faculty at USD in 1990 as an assistant professor after serving as a postdoctoral associate at the University of Pennsylvania. While at USD, she has been recognized for her outstanding research, including the President’s Award for Excellence in Research in 2012 and the Award for Academic Innovation and Excellence in 2005. Additionally, she was a visiting scholar at the University of Victoria (Canada), the University of California at Los Angeles and at Argonne National Laboratories. Berry earned a Ph.D. in physical chemistry from the University of Virginia and a B.S. in chemistry from the College of Charleston. “We are fortunate to have Dr. Berry in this position to serve as interim vice president,” stated USD President James W. Abbott. “Her credentials and outstanding reputation will provide a steady direction for the university while we identify the next long term leader for the university’s research mission.” ? Smile. Tell them you saw it in the Broadcaster! Gov. Dennis Daugaard told Girls State delegates Friday that South Dakota offers jobs in the fields of engineering, information technology, accounting, the health fields and in skilled trades. He urged them to seek post secondary education in those areas to seek a successful career path in South Dakota. (Photo by David Lias) By Travis Gulbrandson travis.gulbrandson@plaintalk.net Gov. Dennis Daugaard had some advice for the high-schoolers attending this year’s American Legion Auxiliary South Dakota Girls State. Get a technical degree. “If you don’t get anything else out of what I say today, get this,” he told the audience Friday morning at Aalfs Auditorium on the USD campus. “It used to be that if you got a four-year degree at a college, you’d have a pretty good ticket to success. That is no longer true. Wake up.” Rather than get just any degree, Daugaard suggested the girls seek a degree in one of the technical fields. “In South Dakota particularly, the demands that we’re seeing are in the sciences, engineering, information technology, accounting, the health fields and in the skilled trades, machining, welding, construction trades, manufacturing trades,” he said. There are both twoyear and four-year degrees in these fields that yield “spectacular job opportunities,” the governor said. “The right degree is the ticket to lots of job opportunities, but there are many degrees for which there is little opportunity at the end of your college path,” Daugaard said. “What you do have at the end of that path is a load of student debt and no way to pay it back, or much (difficulty) in paying it back. … “I’m not saying you shouldn’t follow your dreams,” he said. “If you’ve got your heart set on being a philosopher and you’re going to get a degree in philosophy, God bless you. Have at it. But know that at the end of that … four-year road, it’s very difficult to get a job.” While there are many good degrees, there are many others “that lead to virtually no opportunities,” he said. Daugaard said that while “more young people than ever” are attending college, when they earn their degrees, the jobs they end up getting are often no better than those they could have gotten right out of high school. “Be thoughtful about that, because now is the time you’re going to be making those decisions,” Daugaard said. “Inform yourself about where the demand is for job creation or job opportunities in South Dakota, and in the nation.” The governor encouraged the girls to visit with people who currently have the jobs they are considering. He also told them to visit SDMyLife.com, an online program assisting students with navigating the career development process. “If you dive down into that … site, it will help you see where the job opportunities are, and where they aren’t,” the governor said. Daugaard congratulated all of the girls who were chosen to attend Girls State this year. “It is a testament to your hard work and dedication that your auxiliary chose you to represent (them) here,” he said. 3 ????3???3???36??????? 6 624-4429 3 ???3?37??????34?3?3???35??????????3?????3????????  INTERIOR • EXTERIOR COMMERCIAL • RESIDENTIAL PRECISION PAINTING Come Celebrate the Quality Workmanship, Reasonable Rates Since 1983 CLINT TUCKER • 624-4621 A17407 COME on their 70th anniversary June 24th. 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