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N.D. (NewsDakota.com) Herman Stern is now the 40th recipient of the Theodore Roosevelt Rough Rider Award.

Stern was 16 when he came to North Dakota from Germany in 1903 to work for his cousin Morris Straus in Casselton before managing the Straus Clothing store in Valley City.

Stern was able to save nearly 170 people of German Jewish ancestry who would have been executed under the Nazi regime during World War II. Michael Stern was one of those people, he was smuggled out of France in 1941.

Stern was a key figure to get the North Dakota Winter Show started in Valley City. He also encouraged Robert Ingstad Senior to get a radio license for a station in Valley City which is KOVC the flagship station of Dakota Country Radio.

Stern also promoted the Boy Scouts of America. He purchased several acres of land near Park Rapids, Minnesota for a camp. Many people believe it’s the finest Boy Scout camp in the United States.

Stern founded the Greater North Dakota Association in 1924 to promote North Dakota. Current G.N.D.C president Andy Peterson talked about just some of Stern’s accomplishments when Stern was president of the association.

The Theodore Roosevelt Rough Rider Award was presented to the family of Herman Stern during a luncheon at the Radisson Hotel in downtown Fargo during a Greater North Dakota Chamber meeting on March 13. That organization, formerly known as the Greater North Dakota Association was founded by Stern in 1924. Stern was also active in the Valley City Rotary Club and Masonic Lodge.