USD to celebrate South Dakotas 125th statehood anniversary with birthday cake
VERMILLION, S.D. -- The University of South Dakota Department of History will celebrate the 125th anniversary of South Dakota’s statehood tomorrow by serving birthday cake for all at the Muenster University Center.
The celebration will begin at 11:30 a.m. with Kurt Hackemer, Ph.D., chair of the USD Department of History, and Theodore (Ted) Muenster, former USD Foundation President, cutting the cake at 12:30 p.m. In addition to music, the event will feature exhibit materials detailing South Dakota’s statehood that was signed into order by U.S. President Benjamin Harrison on Nov. 2 1889, and a call for continued reconciliation in the state among descendants of settler society and the Lakota, Nakota and Dakota Nations on whose land the state was built.
For more information about the USD Department of History, please visit the website: www.usd.edu/history or contact history@usd.edu or call (605) 677-5218.