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Thursday, June 29, 2006 Golden Valley News & Billings County Pioneer 5
Obituaries
Tamala Curtis
Tamela A. Curtis, age 47,
of Wibaux, Montana, died on
Thursday, June 15, 2006 in
Wibaux.
Memorial Services were
held at 2:00 P.M Wednesday,
June 21, 2006, in the Wibaux
County High School Gymnasium
in Wibaux. Silvernale-Silha
Funeral Home of Wibaux was
entrusted with arrangements.
Tamela was born January 7,
1959, "in Owasso, Michigan, a
daughter of Robert Perkins and
Audrey Bartlett. Tamela was
raised and educated in Owasso.
Tamela married William
Curtis on April 30, 1996 in
Wibaux, Montana. She has
resided in Wibaux since 19941
Tamela was employed at the
Wibaux County Nursing Home
in Wibaux and at the Glendive
Medical Center extended care
in Glendive, Montana. She loved
working with elderly and raising
her (and everyone else's) grand-
children. Tamela was very atten-
tive to her parents and enjoyed
when her extended family were
all home. She especially" loved
to-cook and spend time with her
family.
Tamela enjoyed collecting can-
dles and knick knacks. She was
a mother to many young people
in the community of Wibaux and
surrounding areas. She will be
missed by many.
Tamela was preceded in death
by an infant son, Robert Perkins
and one brother, Gary Bartlett.
Tamela is survived by her hus-
band, William Curtis of Wibaux;
four sons, Faron Taylor II of
Butte, Montana; Jesse Perkins of
Beach, North Dakota; Johnathon
Taylor of Wibaux and Zachary
Curtis of Wibaux; one daughter,
Sammi Reneau and her hus-
band, Derek of Baker, Montana;
her parents, Robert and Audrey
Perkins of Wibaux; three broth-
ers, Jim' Perkins of Arizona;
Robert Perkins Jr. of Tampa,
Florida; Tim Perkins and his
wife Lacey of Baker; four sisters,
Llonda Bebe and her husband,
David-of Indian River, Michigan;
Polly Babbitt and her husband,
Murray of l~ederic, l~Iichigan;
Brenda Laca and her husband,
Jim of Miramar, Florida; and
Shanna Perkins of Mancelona,
Michigan; two special friends
Julie Rogers and Marlene Bailey
both of Wibaux. Remembrances
and condolences maybe shared
with the family at: www.silver-
nale-silhafuneralh0me.com.
Ethel Vivian Walker
Ethel Vivian Walker, age 94, the State School for the Blind
of Park Rapids, MN, formerly of and continued her teaching
the Beach, ND area, passed away career in Portland, OR until her
on Tuesday, June 20, 2006 at St. - retirement in 1964.
Joseph's Area Health Services in She was a devoted teacher
Park Rapids. for over thirty years and loved
Ethel was born on February working with children.
2, 1912 in Sentinel Butte, ND to After her retirement she
Ernest and Martha Ann (Smith) moved to Park Rapids, MN to be .
Walker. near her sister, Lottie McGrane
She graduated from SentinelShe was a member of the
Butte High School and then Seventh Day Adventist Church
Dickinson Teacher's College. and enjoyed volunteering in the
She taught elementary school church school.
in various counties in western In 2001, Ethel was the first
North Dakota before moving to resident in Heritage Manor
Oregon where she received her Assisted Living Complex in Park
teacher's degree from Monmouth Rapids.
College in Oregon. She will be lovingly remem-
She taught for two years atbered by her sister, Lottie
McGrane and her brother, Joe
Walker both of Park Rapids as
well as nieces, nephews, other
relatives and friends.
Ethel was preceded in death
by her parents and two brothers:
Walter and Eugene Walker.
Funeral services were held
at 2:00 P.M. on Friday, June
23, 2006 at the Heritage Living
Center Chapel in Park Rapids
with Reverend Erik Galenieks
officiating. Dr. Vern Erickson
and Clair Erickson provided spe-
cial music.
Interment was at the Beach
Community Cemetery in Beach,
ND at 2:00 P.M. on Monday,
June 26, 2006.
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By Lloyd Omdahl
As the North Dakota Board of
Higher Education contemplates
the authority of its "chancel-
loft' before the July 11 meeting,
Chancellor Robert Potts would
be well advised to be exploring
all options.
At its June meeting, the
chancellor issued an ultimatum:
North Dakota State University
President Joseph Chapman gets
in step or the Board should start
negotiating for Potts departure.
The roller coaster started
when some Board member told
a legislator with loose lips that
Potts was on his way out.
(Loose lips seem to be a pre-
requisite for serving in the
Legislature.)
This comment was repeated to
the media, forcing the Board to
respond by giving Potts a vote of
confidence. That was in May.
In June, Bruce Christianson
proposed that the Board respond
to the Chapman ultimatum
by amending the chancellor's
contract to give him the neces-
sary muscle to bring Chapman
around,
But the motion failed when a
couple of other Board members
expressed concern about grant-
ing the authority.
Potts then asked that the
Board grant its president author-
ity to negotiate for his departure.
The Board left that proposal
hanging.
Christianson pointed out that
there shouldn't be any question
about who's in charge.
It's the Board, he said, l~ecause
the chancellor and the umversity
presidents are all appointed by
the Board.
Well, that happens to be the
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crux of the problem. The Board
has an unworkable chain of com-
mand.
Molding the institutions into a
unified state system has been an
elusive objective since the Board
was created in the 1930s with a
chief administrator carrying the
title of"commis.sioner'.
When the institutions contin-
ued their independent ways, the
Board decided to lower the boom
in 1990 by declaring that higher
education would be a one-univer-
sity system headed by a strong
administrator with the title of
"chancellor".
However, the authority neces-
sary for a strong administra-
tor was never delegated so the
chancellor could be chancellor. In
fact, he still looks very much like
a commissioner.
The Board is faced with a sim-
ple truth. The chancellor can't be
~i chancellor if the presidents of
the institutions are going to be
appointed by the Board.
The problem Potts is now hav-
ing would be solved very quickly
if he had the authority to hire
and fire presidents.
But that idea is frightening
to the Board - and most of the
people involved in higher educa-
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tion.
Vesting the chancellor with
such authority would violate
North Dakota's political culture.
We are a state ofequals~ in or out
of office.
For validation of our egali-
tarianism, we need only look
at our executive and legislative
branches of government where
power is structured so that no
one person - not even the gov-
ernor - rises too high ann. ong the
officeholders.
Potts said that he was recruit-
ed to be a strong chancellor. That
is very likely true. He didn't
know that we've been kidding
ourselves about chancellors since
the title was created.
We want them to have the
authority to manage the system
but we don't want them to have
the authority to manage the sys-
tem. Ambivalent is the word.
Because North Dakotans
instinctively do not like concen-
tratibns of authority, even when
necessary, it would be logical to
assume that the Board would
rather have Potts leave than
deal with the politics of giving
him the authority to deal with
wayward presidents.
Potts has no political base;
Chapman has the North Dakota
State University, its alumni and
the City of Fargo.
However, if Potts leaves when
denied the authority he needs,
his departure will establish an
undeniable precedent.
Future candidates for the
position will know that the job
will not be one of management
but one of coordination, mean-
ing the Board should consider
changing the title back to "com-
missioner".
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