Summer 2007

Cover Story: Tracy Settle takes South Dakota to Suriname

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It’s a cold and blustery late March day but you wouldn’t know it by looking at the man setting up his power point presentation behind the podium at the Camp Rapid Armory. Strikingly tanned and dressed in military fatigues, Lt. Col. Tracy Settle looks like he’s just returned from a long vacation on the beach—making those of us in the audience who bravely delved...

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Learning Curve: Golf 101 – James Flays the Course

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Golf, I’ve always thought, is not so much a sport as a lifestyle, and because my own life-style choices have left me with a fairly noticeable lack of wealth, I’ve never considered golf to be one of my options. This summer, however, I was assigned to write my second “Learning Curve” article for FACES magazine and the subject was to be golf. The publisher arranged for me, because I’d never held a golf club (outside of Pirate’s Cove), to take a lesson from Meadowbrook golf...

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Joyce Johnson: A Brush with Freedom

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This is not exactly a news flash: a HUGE percentage of garages in the U.S. are never used to park a vehicle – at least a working vehicle. Aside from the usual cache of junk, yard tools, last year’s garage sale holdovers, and other miscellaneous goodies, the neighborhood garage might house a vintage car in various stages of restoration: the prized project of the man of the house. It’s a guy thing.And for sure, you’re not likely to find a horse in someone’s garage. That...

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Duncan Olney: On Land, Water and Air

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It wasn’t that long ago that Lt. Colonel Duncan Olney commanded a squadron at Ellsworth Air Force Base and served as a navigator. These days he commands a different kind of personnel as manager of Rapid City’s aquatics program. How different? Let’s just say that in the summertime, his list of employees swells by more than 100, nearly all of them teenagers. But he applies the same focused management skills to the task at hand as he did serving more than 20 years in the...

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Judy Joba: Horseplay the Right Way

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Horse sense. Horses know a lot more than you think they do. They possess an inborn understanding of physics and geometry. They have definite ideas regarding inertia (which they prefer) and momentum (which they will occasionally put up with). They know that the shortest distance between two points is a straight line, and that it doesn’t make sense to walk around that orange cone, way over in the corner, to get from point A to point B. They know that it’s wiser to go around an...

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