BEMIDJI — Like many youngsters who grew up in Bemidji during the 1950s and '60s, Steve DeKrey remembers enjoying an idyllic childhood. Steve DeKrey, shown here teaching a leadership class in China, got his own education started at the Bemidji State College Lab School. In collaboration with his alma mater, Northwestern’s Kellogg School, DeKrey helped found an EMBA program that since 2007 has been repeatedly ranked No. “I had never intended a business school career,” DeKrey said. What a marvelous man.”"Wherever I've gone, I've tried to make an impact where it improved the development of people,” says Steve DeKrey.