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May 26, 2005
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Quarter Commission Selects Bison Design For ND Quarter
BISMARCK, N.D. - The North Dakota Quarter Design Selection Commission today selected the bison design for the North Dakota state quarter. Commission members met at the Capitol in Bismarck to review the thousands of comments received from all across the state before voting on the final design. After the commission meeting Gov. Hoeven approved the recommended design, which will be forwarded to the U.S. Mint by May 31, 2005.
"This has been a great process with tremendous input from the public all along the way," Lt. Gov. and Chairman of the Quarter Design Selection Commission Jack Dalrymple said. "The bison design will represent our state well for many years to come."
The 50 State Quarters Program Act, passed by Congress in 1997, provides for the redesign of the reverse side of the quarter dollar with images emblematic of each of the 50 states. Under the Act, a series of five quarter dollars with new reverses will be issued each year through 2008 celebrating each of the 50 states of the Union. The coins will be issued in the sequence that they became part of the United States of America. North Dakota joined the Union in 1889 as the 39th state.
Hoeven established the commission, chaired by Lt. Gov. Jack Dalrymple, to guide the process and develop the narrative design concepts to be presented to the United States Mint. Members include:
o Jack Dalrymple, Lt. Governor o Jan Webb, North Dakota Council of the Arts o Dina Butcher, former Exec. Director of the N.D. Agriculture Coalition, public member at large o Karen Krebsbach, North Dakota Senate o Nancy Johnson, North Dakota House of Representatives o Al Jaeger, Secretary of State o Merl Paaverud, Director, North Dakota Historical Society o David M. Gipp, President of the United Tribes Technical College o Sara Otte Coleman, Director, Tourism Division, Department of Commerce
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