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The University of South Dakota Rodeo Club
In 1964, the University of South Dakota (USD) student newspaper, the Volante and the Vermillion Plain Talk mentioned USD Rodeo Club activities several times. That March the club signed a contract for livestock for the upcoming fourth annual intercollegiate rodeo held in Vermillion on May 2nd and 3rd. Events those two days included a parade, […]
Kyle Gruhn
Feb 29, 20242 min read
The papers of Archie M. Gubbrud, governor of South Dakota 1961-1965, contain folders on Civil Rights.
These are in the Archives and Special Collections. In the I.D. Weeks Library are the reports of the South Dakota Advisory Committee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights. The earliest one in the library is dated March 1963 and is about discrimination against Black airmen (especially with housing, restaurants, and bars) in Rapid […]
Kyle Gruhn
Feb 20, 20241 min read
Wouldn’t this make a great Charter Day cake?
I would eat a cake decorated to look like concrete letters surrounded by green bushes. How about you? Click here for the location and history of the University of South Dakota hillside letters, This year marks the 162nd anniversary of the establishment of the University by the first Dakota Territory Legislature in 1862, 141th anniversary […]
Doris Peterson
Feb 4, 20241 min read
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