Thursday, Apr. 24, 2025
Hilton Garden Inn | Grand Ballroom
4351 17th Ave. S. | Fargo, ND 58103
Social | 5:30 p.m.
Dinner and Awards Program | 6:30 p.m.
$125 per person
You’re invited to celebrate outstanding NDSU Foundation Alumni Award recipients at this elegant event.
Thursday, April 24, 2025 | 5:30-8 p.m.
Hilton Garden Inn | Grand Ballroom
4351 17th Ave | Fargo, ND 58103
Social | 5:30 p.m.
Dinner and Awards Program | 6:30 p.m.
$125 per person
Registration is closed for this event.
Questions? Call 701.231.6800.
Check back soon for news about the next Evening of Distinction, coming Spring 2024!
Each year, the NDSU Foundation recognizes the accomplishments of NDSU Foundation Alumni Award recipients at Evening of Distinction, presented by SEI.
This year’s honorees include exceptional individuals and organizations whose impact spans business, government, finance, science, and agriculture. From a dedicated community banker who has spent nearly four decades helping families and businesses thrive, to a state leader shaping North Dakota’s policies and securing vital funding for education and research. We celebrate an economist whose insights have influenced national housing markets, a renowned researcher revolutionizing companion animal and human nutrition, and three agricultural organizations whose philanthropic leadership fuels innovation and sustains North Dakota’s farming legacy. Their achievements exemplify excellence, leadership, and a profound commitment to progress.
2025 Presenting Sponsor:
Foundational Vendor Partnership
Supporting Vendor Partnerships
Margaret and her husband, Hugh Veit ’79, established the Eleanor S. Fitzgerald Memorial Graduate Student Scholarship to support NDSU students earning advanced degrees in the Department of Health, Nutrition, and Exercise Sciences or the Department of Human Development and Family Science.
Core areas of home economics remain part of current NDSU degree programs such as accounting; apparel, retail merchandising, and design; education; family and consumer science; financial planning; human development and family science; interior design; and nutrition science.
Home economics programs opened doors, particularly for women, to earn college degrees and pursue careers in education, Extension, state and federal government, business and industry, health care, and more. NDAC listed domestic economy as one of its courses in its founding year, 1890.
Established by Dr. Teresa Conner, dean of the NDSU College of Health and Human Sciences, and cochaired by Dr. Margaret Fitzgerald ’83 and Col. Esther Meyers ’75, the Wisdom Keepers provide support and share their knowledge and expertise with students, faculty, staff, and leadership in the College.
The home management house at NDAC was the first facility built on a college campus specifically for home management practice. In 1954, it was named in honor of Alba Bales, the first female academic dean at NDAC.