Thursday, Apr. 28, 2022
Holiday Inn Fargo
3803 13th Ave S. | Fargo, ND 58103
Social at 5:30 p.m. | Dinner served at 6:30 p.m.
$50 per person
You’re invited to celebrate outstanding NDSU award recipients and recognize exceptional community donors at this elegant event.
Thursday, April 25, 2024
Hilton Garden Inn
4351 17th Ave | Fargo, ND 58103
Social | 5:30 p.m.
Dinner and Awards Program | 6:30 p.m.
$100 per person
Registration is closed for this event. To be added to the attendee waitlist, please submit your information here.
Check back soon for news about the next Evening of Distinction, coming Spring 2024!
The 2024 NDSU Foundation Award Honorees include a trailblazer in agricultural science with a passion for helping young female scholars in their pursuit of academic excellence; a resilient geoscientist whose experiences around the world shaped a career of research, advocacy, and prestigious awards; a CEO who credits his NDSU education as his “ticket to the dance”; a farmer-owned cooperative whose philanthropy and dedication to NDSU brings “recognition, innovation, and sustainable economic growth to the heartland”; and a committed volunteer with a passion for agriculture, agribusiness, and athletics.
Each year, the NDSU Foundation recognizes the accomplishments of award honorees and recognition society donors at Evening of Distinction, presented by SEI.
2024 Presenting Sponsor:
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 co-chaired 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.
