Art Gallery Exhibit Viewing
See Tricia Knutson’s work. No admission fee.
1:00-3:00 p.m., Upper Level, Campus Center
Homecoming Football Game
Mayville State University vs. Valley City State
Come out and show your Comet pride!
2:00 p.m., Jerome Berg Field
All-Alumni Homecoming Reunion
& Education Department Alumni, Faculty & Staff Reunion
All Alumni & Friends Are Welcome! Call your friends … bring some memories … greet Dr. Martin Johnson, as well as the Athletic Hall of Fame and Athletic Coaches Hall of Fame inductees. Education Department alumni ... meet your former classmates, professors, and friends! Come out and have some fun! Cash bar.
5:00-7:00 p.m. - Picnic-Style Supper
7:00-11:00 p.m. - Social
All activities will be held at Mayville Golf Club
Sunday, October 9
Homecoming Clean-Up
Join in this Student Life initiative to bring campus and community together to help maintain
the grounds. This will be a social outing that will provide a great outlet for volunteerism and
pride! Rolls, coffee, and juice will be provided.
11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Meet at MSU Campus Center Foyer
Homecoming Concert
Top off the weekend with a concert by the MSU Concert Choir and Band.
2:00 p.m., Classroom Building Auditorium
Education Alumni Reunion - Saturday, October 8
All alumni and former and current faculty and staff of the Mayville State Education Department
are cordially invited to attend.
Open House - 8:30 - 10:00 a.m. - Education & Psychology Facility
Come check out the new home for the Division & Psychology at Mayville State. Visit with alumni, faculty, and friends. Continental breakfast will be served.
Social - 5:00 - 11:00 p.m. - Mayville Golf Club
Meet your friends and enjoy a time of food and fun. Picnic-style supper will be served from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. Social continues until 11:00 p.m. Cash bar. Everyone is welcome!
Join in celebrating the naming of Dr. Martin Johnson Weight Room!
Saturday, October 8 - 11:30 a.m.
Athletic Coaches Hall of Fame Luncheon
Mayville State University Professor Emeritus of Health and Physical Education Dr. Martin Johnson has played an integral role in the development of weight training facilities for athletes at Mayville State over the years. Mayville State’s “Old Gym” has been transformed for use as a weight room, and this is where Mayville State athletes currently train.
Please join in honoring Dr. J for his many contributions to Mayville State University and the athletic department as the weight training facility is officially named “Dr. Martin Johnson Weight Room.” The official naming will take place during the Athletic Coaches Hall of Fame Luncheon which begins at 11:30 a.m. on October 8 in the MSU Campus Center Luckasen Room. The weight room will be open throughout the day on October 8, so you may stop by and check it out any time.
Martin Johnson graduated from Mayville State with a Bachelor of Science in Education degree in 1966, earning majors in physical education and health education and a minor in business administration. He graduated with a Master of Education degree from the University of Arizona in 1968 and a Ph.D. from Ohio State University in 1972. Johnson served as a faculty member, coach, division chair, and athletic director at Mayville State during his tenure which spanned from 1966 through 2001. He was inducted into the Mayville State Athletic Hall of Fame in 1994 and received the MSU Distinguished Alumni Award in 2004.
Are you celebrating a Mayville State anniversary this year?
Class of ... 2011 • 2001 • 1991 • 1981 • 1971 • 1961 • 1951 • 1941 • 1931
If you graduated from Mayville State in a year ending in “1,” the Alumni Association extends an extra-special invitation to you. Come “home” to Mayville to celebrate your special milestone. Contact your friends and classmates and ask them to join you for a time of fun, festivities, and reconnecting with your Mayville State family!
Get Your Comet Gear!
The Mayville State Bookstore will be open after the parade until kickoff on Saturday, Oct. 8!
Athletic Hall of Fame Inductees
The intent and purpose of the MSU Athletic Hall of Fame is to honor and preserve the memory of those athletes, teams, coaches, and others who have contributed in a very outstanding and positive way to the promotion of the promotion of the Mayville State University athletic programs.
1976 Softball Team. The 1976 Mayville State fastpich softball team defeated three-time champion North Dakota State University twice to secure the North Dakota Association of Intercollegiate Athletics for Women fastpitch softball title. They did so very decisively with scores of 13-6 and 10-3. Most of the Lady Comets were from North Dakota, and many of them played softball at Red Willow during the summers. They had to learn how to play fastpitch, as only the larger cities had fastpitch leagues at that time. As the district champions, the Comets earned a trip to the 8th Annual Women’s College World Series in Omaha, Nebraska. The Comets lost to defending champion Nebraska-Omaha in their first game of the World Series, and to University of Oregon in the second game, thereby eliminating the Comets from the tournament. Through hard work and determination, this team of exceptional athletes accomplished great things with very little. Member of the team were Patty Puppe, Janel Rudel Gaugler, Jeri Fugleberg, Karen Moreland David, Kathy Kerlin Horbacz, Penny vonRuden Kern, Cindy Sevigny Holt, Teri Helling, and Jennifer Oby, Alice Larson Olson, Janna Hjelseth, Connie Larson, Pam Fitzsimonds Matte, Leana Loftsgard Miller, Deb Adolfsen Crowder, Kathy Scanson McCracken, and Kathy Lang Maus. The team was coached by Maxine Mehus.
H.L. “Curley” McLain. H.L. “Curley” McLain is a Comet through and through. He has often been quoted as saying that “he bleeds Comet Blue.” McLain graduated from Mayville State in 1950, and played basketball under legendary Mayville State coach Al Meyer while a student. He became a high school coach at Hatton, N.D., where he coached multiple sports. His basketball teams won the competitive Red River Valley Conference in five of his 11 years as coach. Curley had the opportunity to mentor many athletes along the way. So many of the life lessons that he learned through sports and passed on to his athletes were “Mayville State stories” because that’s where he learned them. His steadying influence promoted athletics in general, with an unsaid bias toward Mayville State. No doubt Curley influenced all of his four sons who became Mayville State athletes and earned their degrees at Mayville State, a tradition that has now been passed along to two grandsons. Curley McLain will be the first to tell anyone about how good Mayville State has been to him. He served as coach, teacher, principal, and then superintendent at Hatton High School for 37 years, retiring in 1987.
Ron McLain. Ron McLain was a standout student, athlete, and leader at Mayville State. He was a three-sport athlete who played football, basketball, and baseball. In 1974, Ron led the nation in batting for small colleges of the NAIA with a 507 average. He was co-captain of the baseball team and earned All American honorable mention, as well as all-North Dakota College Athletic Conference, and all-district honors that same year. McLain earned all-conference baseball honors as a junior as well. The Comets baseball team won the NDCAC baseball tournament in three of the four years in which Ron played. McLain was a starting quarterback on the Comets football team in his sophomore, junior, and senior years. A broken wrist was problematic and ended his football career at Mayville State as a senior. Ron McLain graduated from Mayville State with magna cum laude honors in 1974. He earned majors in English, physical education, and health.
Connie Tharaldson. Connie (Green) Tharaldson was a four-sport letter-winner at Mayville State, participating in softball, volleyball, basketball, and track. She was captain of the Comets volleyball team in 1986. Tharaldson is a member of the Mayville State Athletic Hall of Fame 1984 volleyball team. Athletics has continued to be a big part of Connie’s life after graduating from Mayville State in 1987, earning a Bachelor of Science degree in physical education and biology. Following graduation she became a high school teacher and coach. She has since become a full-time mother, but has never given up her love for coaching young people. She has remained active as a coach of youth soccer, basketball, and fastpitch softball, and she currently coaches junior varsity girls basketball. Connie continues to play on and sponsor softball teams in both Fargo, N.D. and Las Vegas, Nev. Through their philanthropy, she and her husband Gary have had a major role in the recent athletic facilities improvements made at Mayville State University. Many Mayville State students are benefitting not only from the improved facilities, but also the generous scholarship assistance they are receiving.
Coaches Hall of Fame Inductees
The MSU Athletic Hall of Fame adopted a new “Athletic Coaches Hall of Fame” in 2010. The purpose of this new division of the Hall of Fame is to recognize Mayville State alumni who have excelled in their coaching careers. The Alumni Association Awards Luncheon that has been traditionally held during Homecoming festivities is now being held each year in June. Mark your calendars. The Alumni Association awards will next be presented at a dinner scheduled for Friday, June 22, 2012.
Jack DeMaine. Jack DeMaine accumulated a record of 485 victories and 165 losses in 28 years of coaching boys basketball at Munich (N.D.) High School. His teams won the North Dakota High School Activities Association Boys Class B Basketball state championship in 1992 and state runner-up title in 1991. DeMaine coached teams to six NDHSAA regional titles and state tournament appearances. His record includes 11 conference championships, 12 district championships, and 19 regional appearances. DeMaine was named North Dakota Sportswriter and Sportscasters Association Coach of the Year in 1983. Jack was honored as North Dakota High School Coaches Association Boys Basketball Coach of the Year in 1991, 1992, and 1995, and was a NDHSCA Region 6 Boys Basketball Coach of the Year nominee in 1996. He was inducted into the NDHSCA Hall of Fame in 1996, and was the Lions All Star Basketball Coach in 1992. Jack graduated from Mayville State in 1967 with a major in business education and minors in social studies, physical education, and drivers education.
Kenneth Demester. Kenneth Demester was a head boys basketball coach for 21 years in the state of North Dakota, before becoming a head coach for eight years and an assistant coach for four years in the state of Wyoming. Most of his coaching has been in basketball, but he has served stints as head cross country coach and assistant track coach. Demester is one of the only North Dakota coaches to win coach of the year honors in both Class A and Class B. He was named North Dakota Class B Coach of the Year in 1972, and North Dakota Class A Coach of the Year in 1984. In 1972, he coached Mayville-Portland to the Class B state championship. In 1997, his Wyoming team was the state championship runner-up. He was named 4A Schools Boys Basketball Coach of the Year at that time. Demester’s teams have made numerous state appearances. Kenny graduated from Mayville State in 1968, with a major in physical education and a minor in business.
Rex Haugen. Rex Haugen coached football, basketball, and baseball during his coaching tenure which began in 1959 and ended in 2004. Most of his career was spent at Pelican Rapids (Minn.) High School, where he was head basketball coach and assisted in football. Rex has received coach of the year honors at the conference, district, and section levels. His teams were conference champions 15 times, district champions six times, and region-section champions three times. He took teams to the state tournament three times, winning one state championship and earning two runner-up titles. After retiring at Pelican Rapids, Haugen assisted with varsity basketball at North Dakota State University and Moorhead (Minn.) High School. Rex Haugen was inducted into the Minnesota Basketball Coaches Hall of Fame in 1993. He graduated from Mayville State in 1959 with a major in physical education and minor in social studies.
Clint Lein. Clint Lein spent three years coaching basketball and track at Thompson, N.D. before going to Larimore, N.D., where he spent the remainder of his career. He served as head football coach for two years, then spent 26 years as assistant football coach. He was head wrestling coach for 31 years, and also did short stints as head track and assistant track coach. Lein’s wrestling teams notched two conference championships. He coached two state champion individual wrestlers, 21 state placers, and 40 region champions, and was named region wrestling coach of the year in 1986 and 1994. Clint Lein was inducted into the North Dakota High School Coaches Association (NDHSCA) Hall of Fame in 2007 and the North Dakota Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association (NDIAAA) Hall of Fame in 1999. He was named region athletic director of the year in 1982, 1983, 1987, 1992, and 1999, and North Dakota Athletic Director of the Year in 1982. He received the NDIAAA State Award of Merit in 1994 and the NDHSCA Distinguished Service Award in 2006. Clint Lein was inducted into the Mayville State University Athletic Hall of Fame in 2000. He graduated from Mayville State in 1961 with a major in physical education and minor in business education.
Grady Rostberg. Grady Rostberg has a football coaching record of 277 wins, 89 losses, and two ties. After graduating from Mayville State, he spent a year coaching basketball, baseball, and football at Hatton, N.D. From there, he went to Brownton, Minn., where he coached football and basketball. His longest coaching tenure, from 1969 to 1998, was spent at Hutchinson, Minn., where he was head football coach. He also served as head girls basketball coach there from 1975 to 1981. His football teams won state championships in 1983, 1984, and 1998. He was named the Minnesota Football Coach of the Year in 1984, and the Minnesota 4A Coach of the Year in 1983 and 1998. Grady has been inducted into five halls of fame: Minnesota Football Coaches Hall of Fame, Mayville State University Athletic Hall of Fame, Minnesota Coaches Association Hall of Fame, KDUZ Hall of Fame, and the Hutchinson High School Hall of Fame. Grady graduated from Mayville State in 1961 with majors in mathematics and physical education.
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