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 | MMC 29th Annual Golf Classic
Wednesday, May 15
Hillcrest Country Club
Yankton, SD | Join other Mount Marty College alumni, business partners and friends in sponsoring or participating in the MMC 29th Annual Golf Classic. Your participation provides support for scholarships, academic resources and many campus improvements.
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Arts Calendar
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MMC Student
Art Show
Bede Art Gallery
April 22 - May 10
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MMC Lancers
Athletic Calendar
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The spring sports season is winding down, but there are still a few events on the schedule.
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Have you served or do you currently serve in the military?
Mount Marty College is seeking names of our alumni and students who have ties to various areas of the U.S. Military. We want to collect this information in our database so we can share information with you about upcoming events that celebrate or honor your service.
Please send your information to:
call 605.668.1542.
Thank you!
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 | Mount Marty's
Family History | Sister Aidan Bourke and several staff members are working on Mount Marty's Family History. If you had brothers and/or sisters who attended any of the schools - High School, College, Sacred Heart School of Nursing/Anesthesia, please send us the names and the school attended. Be sure and include your full name. Did your parents or grandparents attend any of these schools? Please send us their names, too.
Send the information to Sister Aidan at abourke@mtmc.edu or mail it to:
Mount Marty College
Office of Advancement
1105 W. 8th Street
Yankton, SD 57078
Thank you for helping us build this history! |
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All Schools "Rockin' Reunion" June 28-30
Registration forms will be sent out via mail soon to all alumni for this summer's All Schools "Rockin' Reunion," but online registration is now available. Here is a schedule of events for the weekend. We hope to see you there!
Friday, June 28- Heart of Mount Marty Hallway open in lower Roncalli
- 6:00 pm - Tailgating at Riverside Park
- 7:00 pm - Alumni Baseball game
- Bookstore will be open until 4 pm
Saturday, June 29- 7:30 am - Reflect and Remember Sunrise Mass on the green
- 9:00 am - Walking tours
- 9:30 am - Service Project - Painting headstones in Monastery cemetery
- 11:00 am - 7:00 pm - Bookstore open
- 11:30 am - 1:30 pm - Lunch & photos of honored classes in Cyber Café (years ending in 3 and 8)
- 1:30 pm - Bingo in Cyber
- 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm - Ice Cream Social with Sisters
- 4:00 pm - 8:00 pm - "Hog on the Hill" Pig Roast and Carnival
- 7:00 pm - ?? pm - "Shattered Science" Band Concert & Dance
Sunday, June 30- 10:00 am - Mass in Bishop Marty Chapel
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Alumna Named Executive Director at Avera
 Marcene (Tomjack) Dickes, MMC Class of 1975, recently relocated from Chicago back to Sioux Falls, South Dakota where she has been named as the Executive Director of eCARE Clinical Services at Avera Heatlh.
Avera eCARE is Avera Health's telehealth network which currently serves 162 hospitals and clinics across a 7 state area. Through eEMERGENCY, eICU, ePHARMACY, eCONSULT, and other eACCESS Services for Long Term Care, Acute Care in rural hospitals, and Urgent Care in Correctional Facilities. This visionary model provides rural patients 24 hour access to specialty care physicians, expert nurses, and pharmacists through advanced information and communication technologies. Prior to this position, Marcene had worked in staff, leadership and executive administrative roles throughout her nursing career in Omaha, Sioux Falls, Kansas City and Chicago.
Marcene graduated from Mount Marty with a degree in Nursing in December 1975 and married her classmate and Yankton native, David Dickes in October of 1976. Their family consists of five children and 3 grandchildren. On Sunday, May 5 Marcene was inducted into the MMC Athletic Hall of Fame with the 1972-1973 volleyball team. Marcene was especially honored and proud to be inducted into the Mount Marty Hall of Fame with her eldest son, Dr. Christopher Dickes, a point guard on the Hall of Fame's 1997-1998 Lancer's Men's Basketball Team and a 2000 graduate of MMC.
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MMC Names Alumna as New VP of Finance
While Ginger Moeller isn't very familiar with Yankton, her recent arrival to the city feels like a homecoming.
The new Vice President of Finance at Mount Marty College actually has an accounting degree from the school, but took her classes at the MMC campus in Watertown. Still, that fact doesn't keep Moeller from feeling she is now where she belongs.
Moeller most recently served as the associate controller at South Dakota State University in Brookings, but was primarily the accounting operations manager there since 2010. Full story from the Yankton P&D...
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Seeking Alumni Award Nominations
All Schools Reunion Weekend June 28-30, 2013!
 Once again, we will be honoring three distinguished alumni at the All Schools Reunion during the weekend of June 28-30.
The three alumni achievement awards include:
- Distinguished Service to Mount Marty
- Distinguished Service to Church and Community
- Distinguished Professional Achievement
To nominate a fellow classmate or alumnus, please fill out the nomination form online. |
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Dr. Krause to Receive Honorary Degree
 During spring commencement exercises on May 11, 2013 Mount Marty College will award an Honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters to Dr. Carrol Krause. Commencement is being held in the Laddie E. Cimpl Arena at 2:00 pm.
Dr. Krause graciously came out of retirement to serve as Interim President at Mount Marty College from June 2001 - October 2002 and then again from April 2010 - June 2011.
Dr. Krause has an MS and BA from Wayne State College and an Ed.D. from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He and his wife, Jo, currently reside in Rapid City, SD. They are the parents of six grown children and grandparents to 18 grandchildren and 3 great-grandchildren. Full story... |
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MMC Athletic Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
 Mount Marty College held its annual Lancer Athletic Recognition and Hall of Fame Induction ceremonies May 5th, 2013 on the campus of Mount Marty College in Yankton, SD.
Inductees in to the Hall of Fame were Kate Heine Pesicka, a women's basketball player from 1998 to 2002, the 1972 Lancer Volleyball Team, and the 1998 Lancer Men's Basketball Team.
Current student-athletes were also recognized at the event. Award winners for the Lancer Club Awards, Lancer Champions of Character Award, and the Yankton Quarterback Club Male and Female Athlete of the Year.
Full story... |
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Campus News
The Mount Marty College Division of Natural Sciences' Seminar on the "Interpret a Genome" program was held Friday, May 3. The "Interpret a Genome" program provides students in colleges and universities with access to recently sequenced microbial genomes selected as part of the DOE JGI's Genomic Encyclopedia of Bacteria and Archaea (GEBA) project. Full story...
Mount Marty College Nurse Anesthetists Director Dr. Alfred Lupien was recently selected for Program Director of the Year honors by the American Association of Nurse Anesthetists. He was nominated through the efforts of both the first and second year classes in the program. Full story...
Mount Marty College was honored to learn recently that grant writers, Dr. Paul Anders, Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies, and Dr. Nicholas Shudak, Assistant Professor and Division Chair of Education were awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Enduring Questions grant. Full story... |
For more than 75 memorable years, Mount Marty College has provided a quality education to thousands of students that have entered our doors.
We found some of these passionate alumni that believe in the mission of MMC and asked them to share their story. Check out Vi Ranney's (Class of 1982) story to the right and then view other videos at www.mtmc.edu/believe.
Do you believe in Mount Marty College? Share your story with us on Facebook or send it to us at alumni@mtmc.edu and we will share it with our alumni and friends. |
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