Alumni Reunion

On Saturday, alumni of Chadron State College gathered in Chadron to reminisce and tour the new rangeland facility on the outskirts of campus.

Nineteen people were present for the tour including alumni and their spouses. The group listened intently as Connie Rasmussen, Chadron State Foundation executive director, and Karen Pope, Chadron State Foundation director of alumni and development, described the process by which the rangeland facility was fundraised and built.

According to facts given during the tour, the new facility was funded completely with private money. Additionally, Dale Grant, finance and administration project coordinator, told the alumni how he and the architects that partnered with CSC on the project designed the facility to maximize the effectiveness of the budgeted square footage. This included building two separate buildings; one for the arena and one for the classrooms/labs.

After the tour, the alumni and their spouses went out of town to spend the afternoon together, but came back to Chadron for a social Saturday evening.

They reconvened at the fairgrounds where they had the chance to look at old yearbooks and talk with the rodeo team members, Coach Dustin Luper, and Coaching Assistant Wyatt Clark.

There were 27 attendees at the social, not including the rodeo team members or rodeo coaches.

Each of the attendees at the social received free admission to the rodeo performance on Saturday night, courtesy of Luper.