Glenn L. Jorgenson
South Dakota Hall of Fame inductee Glenn Leroy Jorgenson, 91, who with his wife Phyllis helped to save and transform hundreds of lives through River Park alcohol and drug treatment programs in South Dakota, died peacefully Friday, July 23, 2021, at Dougherty Hospice House, Sioux Falls, S.D. Phyllis was at his side, as she’s been throughout their 70-year marriage.
River Park, with facilities in Pierre, Rapid City and Sioux Falls, and outreach offices, was South Dakota’s first non-profit, privately funded treatment center for addiction. As a recovering addict and alcoholic, Glenn maintained his sobriety for 18,765 days and taught that drug addiction is a disease not a human failing or character flaw. Glenn led a movement to change societal attitudes toward addiction, to correct misinformation and to eliminate the shame and stigma often unfairly attached to addiction. Glenn was inducted into the South Dakota Hall of Fame in 1996. He was recognized for his
By 1972, Wold and family had relocated to Grand Forks, N.D., where he became president and CEO of First National Bank, which then had three locations and dealt primarily in traditional deposit and lending activities.
Having himself benefited from the mentorship of coaches and others in life, Wold delighted in mentoring younger people at the office as well as at home. His daughters said he imbued in them the value of hard work and a love for reading and music, and all three worked at the bank as youths in some capacity or another. We started at an early age, and it was just a given that we were going to go and either file checks or work in bookkeeping, Wold s daughter, Susan Kraft, said. He made sure during college that we all worked part-time, too.
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