Team Makers Make an Impact

When Trey Lance was making his college decision, everything about Fargo — from the university to the people and community support — drew him to NDSU. He says fans care about student-athletes on and off the field, which makes this community special. Scholarships also played an important role in his decision to become a Bison. Financial support from Team Makers and named athletic scholarships lessen financial burdens for student-athletes. These scholarships allow them to perform at their best in the classroom and on the field.

“Receiving a scholarship from North Dakota State is a lifelong blessing. Not only does it make a difference for me and my family financially, but it also allows me to form lifelong relationships with current and former NDSU student-athletes. The financial support from Team Makers also allowed me to realize how special the Fargo community is, as well as create long-lasting relationships with community members that go so much deeper than athletics.”

Trey Lance, Team Makers and named scholarship recipient, Strategic Communications

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.