Kim Babula Zerr was a four-time letterwinner for the BSU women’s basketball team from 1983–87 and was inducted into the BSU Athletics Hall of Fame in 2015. Her daughters, Haley and Hanna, are now playing basketball for the Beavers. Haley is a freshman forward and Hanna is a junior guard.

C.V. Hobson is not only namesake of the Hobson Memorial Union but also part of a long tradition of Bemidji State alumni. His son, Ronald Hobson, graduated in 1949 and lives in Brainerd. Ron’s daughter, Susan, is a 1977 graduate, and Susan’s daughter, Kelli, graduated in 2005. Kelli is married to Jason Schmitz, a 2006 graduate. They live in Minneapolis.

Lisa Kittleson is a senior marketing communication major from Norwood Young America and a third-generation Beaver. Her father, John, is a 1987 graduate in business and marketing. John’s parents, his brother and his brother’s wife also graduated from Bemidji State.

David Marchand and his three brothers, Louis, Peter and William, all attended Bemidji State. Louis was on the BSU faculty for many years and was named a professor emeritus of theatre in 1992.

Todd Moen graduated from Bemidji State with a degree in industrial technology in 1979. His grandfather, Francis W. Soderberg ’54, graduated from Bemidji Normal School in the 1920s, and his late mother, Dionne, graduated in business in the mid–1950s. Todd’s brother, Del ‘82, graduated in political science in the mid-1980s.

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