Dorchester Times: News Briefs: Stutzman To Receive Doctor Of Pharmacy Degree

Wednesday, April 30, 2008

News Briefs: Stutzman To Receive Doctor Of Pharmacy Degree

Dorchester's Lee Stutzman will receive his doctor of pharmacy degree from the University of Nebraska Medical Center during UNMC's commencement ceremonies this week. We salute Lee for his impressive achievement and wish him best of luck on what will surely be a successful career.

Dorchester's Karmen Lawver added two more gold medals to her collection at the Crossroads Conference Invitational this past weekend. The DHS sophomore standout tossed the shot put 37-9 and threw the discus 113-10, earning her the top spot in both events. Another week, another great performance from Karmen.

Dorchester senior Lucas Apfelbeck has signed his letter-of-intent to play football for Doane College in Crete. Best of luck to Lucas as he prepares to don the orange and black at the next level.

We want to recognize Dorchester junior Wendy Boller and DHS senior Andrea Hansen for being named to the academic all-state honor roll by the Lincoln Journal Star. Both Lady Longhorns were awarded the honor for their contributions on the basketball court as well their superior performance in the classroom. Wendy holds a 3.8 GPA and is second in a class of 23. Andrea carries a 3.8 GPA and is second in a class of 26. We tip our hats to both of these deserving DHS students.

5 comments:

AnonymousMay 1, 2008 at 8:06 AM
Dorch has some fabulous young people. They give us alot to be proud about!
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AnonymousMay 1, 2008 at 4:45 PM
Way to go Lee, Lucas, Karmen, Wendy & Andrea.

You guys rock 4 sure
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AnonymousMay 1, 2008 at 6:35 PM
Mrs. Rockefeller:

Lee will definitely have a lucrative future. In Texas, the starting salary for pharmacists is even higher than that of lawyers. If you are going to remain in Nebraska, I would advise a career in healthcare or the trades. The aging demographics of the state are definitely favorable for healthcare workers.
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AnonymousMay 2, 2008 at 9:53 PM
Kearney High has a high school program for students interested in health care careers. Students can begin taking these courses their freshman year. Dorchester administration should look at something like this and maybe work with SCC or another local community college to get students eligible for college credits.
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AnonymousMay 17, 2008 at 3:04 PM
Here is a follow-up to the posting about healthcare workers in Nebraska. The article and link are from the Lincoln Journal/Star.

"Nebraska experiencing graying of health workers"

http://www.journalstar.com/articles/2008/05/17/news/nebraska/doc482dfaa16d1d3337420989.txt
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Dorchester: A Good Little Family Town

Dorchester, Nebraska (est. population 630) is located in northern Saline county. Close in proximity to Interstate 80, Dorchester is only 25 minutes from the state capital of Lincoln (est. population 250,000) and about 55 minutes from Omaha (metro population 725,000).

Dorchester's median resident age is 37 years. In 2005, Dorchester had a median family income of approximately $35,600. The median house value was about $63,000. About 95 percent of Dorchester residents commute to work via Interstate and highways.

The village has a quality public school, which received a $4.1 million expansion and modernization in 2008; it offers a small classrooms and individualized attention. Total enrollment of grades K-12 is around 230-250 students.

Ancestries of the Dorchester area are primarily German (42.4%), Czech (24.9%), Irish (12.5%), English (5.4%), and Dutch (4.9%).

Dorchester Historical Facts

* On July 4, 1871, the railroad reached Dorchester.
* Incorporated in 1881, Dorchester's population grew from 200 to 500 by 1882.
* In 1882, Dorchester had 90 buildings, 35 of which were businesses or public facilities. Brick buildings lined both sides of Washington Avenue for two blocks.
* Dorchester's longest-running newspaper was The Dorchester Star, which was published until the late 1940s.
* By 1889, Dorchester's population is said to have reached 800, while the town housed an opera house, a two-story brick schoolhouse with a bell tower, and four churches.
* By the 1910s, Dorchester had electricity, a water tower and a fire department.
* Dorchester's main arteries, Highways 6 and 33, were graveled in the 1940s.
* Dorchester's first irrigation well was drilled on Chris Weber's farm and rural electrification was finished following WWII.

A Village with History

Dorchester is one of the "alphabet towns" on the Burlington & Missouri River Railroad line built west from Lincoln. The town site was selected for its pleasant location in the northern part of Saline County, about eight miles west of Crete. This situation is an attractive one, being on the level prairie land, midway between the West Blue River and Turkey Creek. The first named stream is three miles north, and the latter about the same distance south from the town. Dorchester was platted in 1870 and incorporated in 1881. The name "Dorchester" came from either for a suburb of Boston by that name or a town in England. No one is sure. Two of the very first settlers were James Seely and Edward McIntyre, who both made Dorchester their permanent home.

Dorchester: In The Beginning

Here is a look at Dorchester around 1890, less than a decade after its official incorporation, as documented by Andreas' History of the State of Nebraska:
* POPULATION: "About 300, and is made up of a substantial and progressive class of citizens, who are moral and industrious. ... The town grew but very little until the year 1879, for the reason that Pleasant Hill, on Turkey Creek, a short distance south, was the county seat and naturally drew a trade for quite a large scope of country."
* BUSINESS: "The business and professional interests of the town are represented by three general merchandise stores, two drug, one grocery, one furniture, two hardware, and two millinery stores, one bank, two restaurants, two hotels, three livery stables, a post office, one newspaper office, two elevators, two lumber yards, two coal yards, two blacksmith shops, two lawyers and four physicians."
* SCHOOL: "The schoolhouse is a good one. The schoolhouse was built in 1872, since which time the public schools have been continually kept up. The present schoolhouse is 24' x 40' in size, two stories high. The school is graded and consists of three departments. The house is found too small, and arrangements will soon be made to increase its size."
* CHURCHES: "There are three substantial churches."
* HOMES: "The residence portion of the village is made up of neat houses of different styles of architecture, but none of them very large."
* NEWSPAPER: "The Dorchester Star, which was established August 21, 1881, by H. C. Bittenbender, who edited it until January 19, 1882, when he sold it to Ryerson & Bullock, the present proprietors. The Star is a bright weekly paper, five-column quarto, in size, and is Republican in politics."