CSC to present three Family Tree Awards

The families are the Husseys from Chadron, the Johnsons from Cody and the Schwartings and Hensleys from Gordon. Members of three generations of each family have graduated from the college.

The late Eva Hussey received her bachelor’s degree from Chadron State in 1960 and taught in Dawes County rural schools and the Kenwood School in Chadron for at least 30 years.

Her son, Delbert, and his wife, Aletta, are CSC graduates. Del worked at the college 33 years, serving as the director of financial aid 25 years and as director of cooperative education eight years.

The Husseys’ daughters, Deborah White of Alliance and Cindy Everett of Scottsbluff, are CSC grads. Deb’s daughter, Nikki White, represents the fourth generation of the family to attend CSC. She is a sophomore and was recently elected a college cheerleader.

The late Margaret Jane Johnson, who earned her bachelor’s degree from CSC in 1964, and taught for three years prior to her marriage in 1933 and from 1957 through 1977 after she had raised her nine children. Most of her teaching occurred in Cherry County, including Cody and Valentine. She died in January 2003

Six of her children attended CSC. They are John, Edwin and Larry Johnson, Jeanette Hoffmann, Colleen Fredrickson and Carol Wobig.

John and his wife Susan are among the family members who have graduated from CSC. The couple lives in Cody and are on the faculty at the St. Francis School in South Dakota. Their daughter, Katie Johnson Gracey, lives at Arnold, and in 2004 was one of the first to earn a bachelor’s degree from Chadron State through classes offered at North Platte. She operates a day care center.

At least three more of Margaret’s grandchildren have attended CSC.

LaVon Baldauf Schwarting received her degree from Chadron State in 1985 after raising her family. She formerly taught at Stevens High School in Rapid City and in Colorado and is now a computers and business instructor at Oglala Lakota College on the Pine Ridge Reservation.

LaVon’s daughter, Jean Schwarting Hensley, earned two degrees from the college in the 1970s and is now a guidance counselor at Gordon High School. Jean and her husband, David or “Chic,” have two children who attended CSC. David attended in 1998 and is now the superintendent of the golf course at Holyoke, Colo., while Heather, a 2002 graduate, teaches kindergarten in Otis, Colo.

Several of LaVon’s siblings are CSC graduates, including Dr. Boyd Baldauf of Pueblo, Colo., Berthajean Baldauf Johnson of Omaha, Marie Baldauf Datus of Cheyenne and Josemay Baldauf Anderson of Westminster, Colo. Each of them married CSC graduates.

A number of LaVon’s nephews and nieces have attended CSC. Two great-nieces, Farris and Alysia Williams of St. Edward, Neb., are current CSC students. Their older sister, Carmen, graduated from the college in 2004.