History Club Meeting
December 11, 2002
Newman Center

· History Club T-shirt
· Character depictions
· Marmorstein – Nero
· Grettler – Montezuma
· Dias – Napoleon
· King – King George?  Emperor of India
· Bartusis – Russian emperor {tsar} with funny hat and big mustache?
· Tag lines
· Scott had a list of suggested tag lines from Jana Green
· “Our teachers will go down in history…some farther down than others.”
· “Sometimes the only difference between history and hysteria is the spelling.”
· “Our forefathers should have fought for representation without taxation.”
· “No one is dead as long as someone remembers him.”
· Tag lines from November 12th meeting
· “Rulers of men and teachers of history”
· “Ordained by God to rule the few”
· “The chosen few teach”
· Other tag line suggestions
· “History: Date one”
· From Dr. Grettler:  “Iron men and wooden courses”
· Decision will be made next semester
· Dr. Grettler asked how much money is made from t-shirts and where it goes
· Have sold 100 t-shirts in last two runs
· Spent money on
· Vermillion trip (food and traveling expenses)
· End-of-year party
· Future T-shirt design ideas
· Dr. Grettler:  Harry Potter: Seymour Hall and the knaves behind it
· Allison Hoff suggested to Professor Dias a “boy band” theme with the faculty’s heads on a bunch of buff “boy band” members
· Star Wars characters
· Design artwork
· Liz hasn’t told us about Jake Bosmoe yet so will assume he is a “no”
· Dakota Silk Screen does limited design work
· Dr. Grettler will contact Rocky Hartberg to see if he is interested
· Sales/ Advertising
· Dr. Grettler suggested selling t-shirts at the Spring Pancake feed during finals
· Dr. Grettler suggested entering a group in the Quiz Bowl so the shirts will be advertised when the Quiz Bowl is aired on Northern’s channel
· Professor Dias will send out a flyer when the design is finalized so people can pre-order t-shirts
· Badge
· Dr. Grettler suggested a badge on the shirt sleeve
· Malene suggested selling the badge separately
· It would have a tag line like “I survived” (or something similar)
· The badge would have spaces for each of the professors
· Individual professor pins/ stripes would be sold separately
· Dr. Grettler suggested the badge be similar to Benjamin Franklin’s Autobiography chart

· Future Activities (in part to boost retention)
· Reverse trick-or-treating
· January 16, 2002 at 7 p.m.
· Dr. Grettler agreed to join Professor Dias and the officers in this excursion
· Dinner with Dr. Grettler and Professor Dias
· To take place in March
· Dr. Grettler and Professor Dias will work out the details
· Student History Conference in Vermillion at USD on Thursday, April 24th
· Pierre trip to the SD Historical Society
· Will try to go in early spring or will make plans for a fall trip
· We will talk in January about the trip
· We will go to Bristol in April
· Muzzle loaders
· Dr. Grettler and Scott will set this up for late March/ April
· Will need $40 for insurance
· Will contact Bar N Silo to find members (they get together and have meetings; they wear animal skins for events)
· Get together, shoot things, have dinner cooked on the fire, sleep in a tipi
· Will have to remember to bring digital camera
· Dr. Grettler will contact Lois from the ARCC
· She does a 19th century re-enactment
· Can provide period costumes for 30-40 people
· Gettysburg “Where the war wasn’t” Civil War re-enactment
· Traveling classroom (maybe set up internships at same time)
· Webster, Parmely house
· Ellendale
· Faulkton (theater)
· Museums, historical society

· Movies brought to be watched:  choice of Thirteen Days or Enemy at the Gates

· Game Night
· Professor Dias brought Taboo
· Shanna’s WWII Jeopardy is for younger kids

· Meeting concluded at 7:55 p.m.

Members Attended

· David Bohlander
· Kraig Selken
· Jim Lorenz
· Scott Olson
· Dave Grettler
· Ric Dias
· Malene A. Little

Malene A. Little
NSU History Club, Secretary