SDCTE announces the selection of a new vice president, Nancy Kampfe of
Martin. Mrs. Kampfe will serve two years in this capacity, the following two years as president, and the
final two years of her six-year commitment as outgoing president on the Executive Board.
Mrs. Kampfe teaches junior-senior English and is in charge of the
newspaper and yearbook at Bennett County High School in Martin. In addition, she is the National Honor Society
adviser, in which capacity she assists NHS members in sponsoring three community blood
drives during each school term in addition to completing other chapter service projects.
Mrs. Kampfe also serves as Teacher Assistance Team Coordinator and is a member of the school-wide technology committee.
Mrs. Kampfe earned her BA from SDSU in 1968 and her MA degree in
English from SDSU in 1970. She has taught 18 years at all levels of education in South Dakota from college to
elementary school and has completed over 50 graduate hours beyond her master's degree.
Mrs. Kampfe has encouraged lifelong learning in her English classroom
via the reading-writing workshop approach pioneered in the early 1980's by Linda Rief, Nancie Atwell and
others. Following the "life-changing experience" of the Dakota Writing Project, which she
attended in the summer of 1998, Mrs. Kampfe began giving students more choices and
more responsibility in their own learning.
Mrs. Kampfe brings to SDCTE a West River perspective, having been
born and raised at Lemmon. She and her husband and family have lived in the Martin area since 1977, when
they moved to Longvalley to take over the family farming/ranching operation.
"We welcome Nancy to the leadership team
of SDCTE and look forward to having her work with us to support and encourage the teaching of
English in South Dakota," outgoing president Karen Harrington, Mitchell High School, said.
Mrs. Kampfe and her husband Greg have four daughters: Leanne, a
master's degree student in vocal music education at the University of Minnesota; Janice, Mail Center Supervisor at
Cendant (parent corporation of Super 8) and a junior in criminal justice at Northern State
University; Carole, a freshman music major at NSU; and the youngest, Amy, a high school
freshman.