About the NDSU Foundation Magazine
The NDSU Foundation Magazine is committed to providing NDSU alumni, benefactors, industry partners, and friends with engaging storytelling, artwork, and design that promotes affinity to the University.
This publication prioritizes dynamic stories that demonstrate the University’s impact on the state, region, and world; the ways philanthropy, volunteerism, and mentorship advance that impact; and the importance and relevance of presidential, campus leadership, and/or Foundation funding priorities.
It is supportive of NDSU’s brand and public image.
PUBLISHER
NDSU Foundation
EDITOR
Micaela Gerhardt
DESIGNER
Leah Ecklund
MARKETING
Emily Erickson ’15
WEB MANAGER
Shane Herman
CONTRIBUTORS – 2025 EDITION II
Levi Dinh
John Glover
Bethany Hardwig ’27
Kara Lidberg ’17
Zachary Lucy
Breanna Pretz
Kari Sayler ’04
Alyssa Teubner ’13
Kensie Wallner
NDSU FOUNDATION MAGAZINE EDITORIAL BOARD
Sarah Coomber
Dave Goodin ’83
Dr. Prakash Mathew ’76, ’21
Heidi Reisenauer
Jessica Wachter ’09
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.