Micah Friez

Momentous momentum: The Bemidji State Alumni & Foundation’s 2023 year in review

By Micah Friez / December 31, 2023

As the calendar turns over to 2024, there’s one more item on our 2023 to-do list: Look back on the year that was.

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Inspired by grandparents, Bella Vannavong pursues medical vocation behind door-opening scholarship

By Micah Friez / December 15, 2023

Bella Vannavong was inspired to enter the healthcare field so that she could create a better life for people like her grandparents. Vannavong is also the recipient of the Sam & Peggy Johnson Scholarship in Biology, and because of her donors’ support, she’s able to pursue an education at Bemidji State.

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Career Services helps Peyton Barber map job path to The Travel Chalet

By Micah Friez / December 4, 2023

When Peyton Barber first applied to work at a travel agency, she didn’t even have her own passport. But, thanks to Career Services at Bemidji State University, she booked a new professional path anyway.

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The heist in Deputy Hall: Investigating the ‘smoothly executed’ safecracking caper of 1955

By Micah Friez / November 22, 2023

From breaking and entering to cracking the safe to drowning evidence in a riverbed, here’s how unidentified thieves coordinated a heist in Deputy Hall – and how Bemidji State Teachers College still came out on top.

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60 years after graduation, alumna Margaret Laurich makes first Homecoming return

By Micah Friez / October 6, 2023

When Margaret (Hanka) Laurich graduated from Bemidji State College in 1963, she bid farewell to Bemidji for more than half a century. But after 60 years away, Laurich made her triumphant return to campus at Homecoming this fall.

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Thousands join Bucky’s Hoedown in lively Bemidji State Homecoming week

By Micah Friez / October 3, 2023

What do you get when you combine a beaver, the Wild West and thousands of alumni and friends? One heck of a Homecoming week for Bemidji State University.

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A record-raising Howe-Welle ‘remarkable’ in the eyes of Ruth Howe

By Micah Friez / August 30, 2023

Even as someone always ahead of her time, Ruth Howe is still blown away by how far the Beavers have come.

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Gallery: Root, root, root for the Twins during BSU Night at Target Field

By Micah Friez / August 28, 2023

Bemidji State University alumni and friends were taken out to the ballgame on Friday, Aug. 25, for the always-festive BSU Night at Target Field.

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Descendants of Bemidji hero Jack McCormick reclaim lost history on campus

By Micah Friez / August 15, 2023

More than 80 years after his death, John “Jack” McCormick still stands as one of the greatest athletes Bemidji has ever seen. And on Monday, he was reunited with his family.

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Bemidji community bids farewell to Bensens in spirited send-off

By Micah Friez / August 11, 2023

In a spirited celebration of Jim and Nancy Bensen, BSU and the Bemidji community bid farewell during Thursday’s send-off reception and basked in the contagious Bensen zeal one last time.

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