New superintendent brings outgoing energy to Michael J. Fitzmaurice State Veterans Home

  • Photo by Beth Bogart/Fall River County Herald-Star Danny Tiger, the new State Veterans Home head, explains the “missing soldier” table in the main building’s entryway, an area he hopes to improve with a volunteer-staffed kiosk, part of his priority to create more connections with the local community.
    Photo by Beth Bogart/Fall River County Herald-Star Danny Tiger, the new State Veterans Home head, explains the “missing soldier” table in the main building’s entryway, an area he hopes to improve with a volunteer-staffed kiosk, part of his priority to create more connections with the local community.

    HOT SPRINGS — Danny Tiger may have only started as the new Superintendent of the South Dakota Veterans Home in Hot Springs three months ago, but in showing a visitor around the campus, he greeted patients and staff cheerily by name — and they responded in kind to his warmth.

    “He’s very outgoing — that was a big reason he was selected for the role,” said John Lane, who has been the Home’s pharmacist…