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Career choice is a matter of determination. We don’t often know at a young age what we want to be when we grow up. Our career choices are like that feather floating in the air at the start of the movie Forest Gump. It will land someplace, but we’re not quite sure where it will land. This was not the case for young Randall Waldner as he was growing up in Redfield, South Dakota. He knew where he wanted his feet to land, and at an early age he began putting himself in a position to make that dream happen...

The hallways of Doland school echoed with the voices of generations of students, including a young Hubert H. Humphrey, whose father was town mayor and owned a local pharmacy. The stairs were worn smooth from thousands of youthful feet running up and down them. Memories like these can’t be replaced, but over time, the three main buildings that cobbled together the Doland public school were showing their age. The cracks and creases of time could not be erased with simple repairs, the walls and windows leaked heat out into the cold winter air, and times had changed so that th...