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Fall 1985 University of Minnesota-Crookston • The University of Minnesota is an equal opportunity educator and employer. Vol. 5 No.3

Three h9Dored as Top Aggies *************************************************

Top Aggie awards represent the highest honor given by the NWSA Alumni Association . Each year class leaders and association directors select outstanding based on nomination information. Award winners have each ' shown out-standing contributions to their

communities, families, and careers.

The 1985 award recipients were Burnett Bergeson '35 of Hawley and Pauline Finkenbinder '45 of Red Lake Falls. Dr. Stanley Sahlstrom received an Honorary Top Aggie award.

Dr. Stanley D. Sahlstrom (right) received an Honorary Top Aggie award from alumni president Allan Dragseth '57.

S.D. Sahlstrom Dr. Stanley D. Sahlstrom, . In April he was elected to the

founding provost of the University Board of Regents for a University of Minnesota- six-year term representing the Crookston, received the first 7th ' Congressional District. Honorary Top Aggie Award. .

The alumni association board - "I shall always be committed of directors established the to this campus, to the University award in recognition of of Minnesota, and to the people of Sahlstrom's twenty years as head this state," said Sahlstrom. of the Crookston campus, years' Prior to coming to Crookston, when the values and mission of Sahlstrom was a member of the the Northwest School were St. Cloud State College faculty as ingrained in the traditions of the assistant to the president and new college. director of field services. A

Sahlstrom joined the native of Minnesota, he received University of Minnesota in 1965 B.S;, M.S., and Ph.D degrees as director of the then named from the University of Min-. .Technical Institute. ' He worked nesota. with Superintendent B.E., Both Stan and Mil Sahlstrom 'Youngquist to provide a smooth have actively' contributed to transition from the Northwest Crookston community events and School ,to UMC. His ongoing organizations. He is also in res p 0 n sib il it i e sin c 1 u d e d leadership positions for several curriculum development, staff national education associations, employment, and remodeling is president of Post International and building of new campus Network, commissioner of North facilities. UMC enrollment grew Central Association, and is a from less than 200 stUdents in 1966 consultant-examiner for the to nearly 1,200 in 1985 when Commission on Instructions of Sahlstrom announced his Higher Education of North '-' resignation. Central Association.

Pauline Finkenbinder Purath Pauline Purath '45 has a

multifaceted life ' whose core element is the land she grew up on in northwestern Minnesota. A Crookston native, Pauline first moved to Red Lake Falls as an assistant 4-H Club Agent. She married Willard Purath in 1948 and put down roots there while rearing their two sons and two daughters on a farm south of town.

She identifies community in-volvement. as an important part of life in small rural com-munities. Her involvement in-dudes the First Presbyterian Church, County Extension, homemaker programs, and commodity affiliations-.

Pauline and Willard Purath raise registered Black Angus cattle as well as farm. She is actively involved in the promotion of beef through con-sumer education programs. Pauline is currently serving her second elected term on the Minnesota Beef Council. For twelve years she . served on the Minnesota CowBelles, a women 's organization for beef producers, including two years as president. '

Burnett Bergeson While a NWSA student, Burnett

Bergeson was president of his freshman, junior and senior classes; three-year member of the debate squad; and active in athletic and academic organizations.

That leadership ability aided Burnett during his many years of public service to Minnesota. From 1938-42 he was county supervisor of Farm Security Administration, a position responsible for ten counties in northwest and southern Min-nesota.

In 1954 he was elected to the 64th Legislature as a represen-tative from Norman and Mahnomen Counties. Burnett served until 1962. Bergeson is remembered as a chief author of a resolution adopted in 1959 which urged the University of Min-neSota Board of Regents to change instruction at Crookston and Morris from the high school to technical collegiate level. He used his position on the Tax Committee to procure funds to establish vocational and collegiate education in rural Minnesota.

Following his terms in the legislature, Burnett was ASCS district supervisor for nor-

In 1979 the Puraths received the Honor Farmer and Homemaker Award for Red Lake County at the Red River Valley Winter Shows. They were honored again in January 1985 as Outstanding Farm Couple in their comII\unity.

Pauline enjoys her role as partner in the farm operation. She now incorporates the agricultural background in her own business, NorthCountry Straws. Using wheat, Pauline creates straw craft projects such as wall hangings and arrangements which (:Ire marketed across the l :.S,

She shares her enthusiasm for agricultural progress by serving on the Northwest Experiment Station Advisory Committee.

"I have learned what a vast impact the school, its staff and students really mak,e on the world and State of Minnesota," she said. "The experiment station has changed over the years and is a credit to agriculture, the sciences and research. It is something I have really learned to appreciate."

Paulin(' FiIl!H-nhindf"r Purath '.t:' res,ponded tu Top Aggil" honors at the reunion banquet.

Former NWSA superintendent B.E. Youngquist right) presented BurneU Bergeson '35 with his award.

thwestern Minnesota from 1961-69. During this time he also farmed 320 acres near Twin Valley raising turkeys and grain.

Now in retirement at Hawley, Burnett remains active at the

Bergeson Nursery and cares for his own lawn and garden. Burnett and his wife Adeline travel south each winter and visit their four children who live in Kansas, Nevada, and Texas.

r Dr. Donald -Sargeant has been named chancellor of the Crookston campus replacing founding provost Stanley Sahlstrom. Inaugural ceremonies for Sargeant are scheduled for early December.

Administrators identify new ' focus for UMC University President Kenneth

Keller outlined new directions-for ' the Crookston campus in his

February 1985 paper, "A Com-mitment to Focus." In late May Deputy Vice President Richard Sauer spoke to faculty and' staff at the University of Minnesota-Crookston about UMC's relationShip with the Institute of .-Agriculture, Forestry, and Home ' Economics. , Keller's Commitment to Focus,

which was 'presented to the University Board of Regents at its February meeting, was a direct response to the governor and the legislature which criticized the University' for not ' focusing itself. Sauer was on campus to discuss the principles and philsophy of what Keller'S plan would mean for UMC. Over 60 faculty and staff gathered to hear Sauer's comments.

Sauer talked about three areas of the report that would directly affect UMC. First, was to focus two-year agricUltural education on the Crookston and campuses, transferring ag programs from the other systems in which they are now offered. As a part of that trade UMC would be forced to examine its program

;and phase out those activities ' ' t ,hat do not depend upon 'agricultural offerings.

"The tr'ade-offs assume that other institutions are willing to :transfer ' agriculture·related programs to UMC," said Sauei'.

UMC's Chancellor Don Sargeant said that UMC's

,agriculture mission is ' best ,carried out as a part of the , University system.

Sargeant coordinated UMC's Planning Committee Report in response to Keller'S Commitment to Focus paper. ,In that report

,stated, "UMC is ser-ving its mission well. The fa111984 enrollment of , 1145 'students, reflected in the Minnesota Higher Education Coordinating 'SOard enrollment survey, was , com-prised of students from over 200 Minnesota high schools, 13 states,

, ' and 23 countries. Eighty percent ' of those students came from rural communities of less than 10,000 population. Two-thirds of all graduates have returned to rural communities for em-ployment.·' ApprolQrnately two-thirds of the UMC fulltime stUdent enrollment comes from within a 100 mile radius of Crookston. "

Reunion guests experience new look on campus

Allan Dragseth '57

"I didn't know what to expect at the reunion, but I realty had a good time once I got there!"

Many of you expressed tHis , feeling and we're glad for each of you who attended the 1985 NWSA Summer Reunion and made it a success . Over 325 alumni registered including members of ten anniversary and others who enjoyed previous

' reUnions so much they came back to another.

You who attended the reunion banquet met. Dr . Donald Sargeant, new chancellor at UMC. Sargeant was formerly UMC 's assistant provost for academic affairs. Dr . Larry

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Smith represented the Northwest Experiment Station. He assumed 'duties as superintendent in 1983 when Dr. B.E. Youngquist retired. Both these ad-ministrators welcome NWSA loyalties expressed by alumni involvement on campus and station committees and financial contributions.

Another new look on campus is the advancing restoration of the White House Alumni Center. ' Alumni are welcome to stop in and take advantage of this homelike center featuring yearbooks, archives, and alumni address records.

The next alumni-sponsored , events will be the annual winter dinners in early 1986. Look ' for them - and plan to attend!

Congratulations to 1985 Top Aggie recipients Burnett Bergeson, Pauline Finkenbinder Purath 'and Dr. Stan Sahlstrom. Each has contributed greatly to life in northwest Minnesota. Also congratulationt. ind appreciation for our newl ,,--elect'ed board members: Wiilbur Hallstrom, Bonnie Vc.,ledahl Holmquist , LeRoy Sondrol, and Leonard Yutrzenka.

Allan Dragseth '57 NWSA President

If the trading of programs is worked out between A VTI's and community colleges in the nor-thern part of the state, there is' a possibility that some faculty may not be as useful on a particular campus. , "As programs are transferred those faculty may want to apply at a different campus. Other faculty will need to become more adaptable, " said Sa'uer.

The second item in Keller's report to which Sauer responded was the recommendation that both Crookston and Waseca campuses become part of the Institute of " Agriculture, forestry, and Home Economics. Keller assumed that this could help to streamline the ad-ministrative operation of the campuses and help to achieve a

, fuller integration of activities to , take even greater advantage of

the association of these campus'es with the University. ,

"This does not mean a major change in the , programs and policies that are now being carried out at UMC," stated Sauer.

Rather, Sauer said that given the Institute's mission, there would be a strengthening of programs at UMC. UMC's Chancellor would still report to the University's president in

matters, but would report through the Institute for programmatic planning.

"The faculty in S1. Paul will not tell UMC faculty how to revise curriculum at Crookston, rather we'll work jointly to develop a balanced curriculum. We're looking at a full-shared responsibility and partnership."

By suggesting that 'UMC become part of the Institute of Agriculture, Forestry, and Home Economics, Keller uses that encompassing mission to define agriculture. That mission is a far '

Dr. Richard ' Sauer fielded questions by 'faculty and staff concerning UMC's relationship to the Institute of Agriculture, Forestry, and Home Economics.

broader scope than - just agriculture production. It en- ' compasses teaching at both the graduate and undergraduate level in production, processing, marketing and distribution of food and other agricultural products, ' also on forests and forest products, public policy, human nutrition, 'and overall environmental quality to the benefit of the citizens of Min-nesota, but also to the benefit of the nation and the -world.

UMC's Chancellor Sargeant will meet monthly with the Institute, Ag Extension, and Experiment Station to discuss budgets, long range planning, and detailed policies.

Finally, Sauer talked about the incorporation of University-wide expertise by tapping into areas in which the Agriculture Extension

Service does not typically have involvement. Sauer cited examples of graduate courses in northwestern Minnesota and transfe'r programs from Crookston to the S1. Paul campus.

Sauer relates Keller's com-mitment to excellence to having the best agriculture program at Crookston.

"We need to provide the best two-year agriculture program in the country and become one of the top five agriculture in-stitutions in the country."

"Once approved by the University Board of Regents, a comprehensive plan can be set forth," said Sauer.

"This is an exciting time for all of us to respond as we look for-ward to shared reponsibility to serve the people of the state with

. the strongest possible."

Four Aggie alumni 'join the NWSA board of directors following election at the reunion. From left : Leonard Yutrzenka '42 of Argyle, Bonnie Vesledahl Holmquist '51 o[ Crookston, Willbur Hallstrom '40 of Red Lake Falls, and LeRoy Sondrol '54 of Grand Forks, ND. Alumni president Allan Dragseth '57 of Eldred congratulates the new directors.

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NWSA-UMC alumni winter dinners are nearly as much a tradition as reunion. and homecoming. The 1986 dinners will again rotate among com-munities in Minnesota.Are there many alumni in your area who would like a dinner near there? Would you be willing to host an alumni dinner? Do you have program . ideas and publicity suggestions? Would you prefer joining other alumni at the White House Alumni Center for dinners like the ones held in 1985?

The Alumni Office welcomes your comments. Please send your ' ideas to The White House Alumni Center, UMC, Crookston, MN 56716.

NWSA photos highlight--campus alumni center

Joan Phillips Flaat '41 (left) and Marjorie Ofstedahl Hanson '43 discuss plans for needlework seat covers · at the White House Alumni Center. Flaat chaired the furnishings committee and Hanson is project leader for the needlepoint project.

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Reunion guests. · Curious visitors. Alumni .. volunteers. More and more former students stop ' to tour the White House Alumni Center and appreciate its addition to the University of Minnesota-Crookston campus. Even those who use the center frequently find new additions each visit.

Several "new" photographs accessorize the center's en-tertainment rooms and highlight the Northwest School's -role in agricultural education. The

I Published by the Office of Alumni- I llevelopment. Lowell LarSon, director; Cheri Viestenz, editor; Barb Weiler, contributing editor; Ardis Thompson and Maureen Emerson, secretaries. Photographs by Media Resources.

Alumni Association White House Alumni Center

University of Minnesota Crookston, MN 56716

Northwest Experiment Station donated two large framed pic-tures from their office building. The wall hangings were gifts to the school by the classes of 1915 and 1916.

A dairy herd grazing on the Experiment Station grounds now decorates the restored kitchen which houses a receptionist's work area and buffet serving space.

In addition, two designated display cases will feature por-traits of the NWSA superin-tendents and other campus photos and memorabilia .

The search for original NWSA furniture and accessories from the 1920's continues. Any per-sonal momentos from class rings to letter jackets to class projects will be included in the archives display area of the alumni center. For more in-formation contact the White House Alumni Center, UMC, Crookston, MN 56716 or call (218) 281-6510 extension 435.

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Incoming freshmen students at UMC will participate in Welcome Week September 5-8. Orientation sessions, meetings with advisors, and get-aquainted events help new students adjust to college life.

UMC sends judging teams to national competition

, UMC judging teams placed third in national held last April in

Seven judging teams from the University of Minnesota-Crookston competed at the National Association of Colleges

. Teaching Agriculture (NACTA) ' Conference in Bowling Green, Kentucky in April.

The annual NACTA com-petitive event drew teams from 33 colleges across the United

States. Contests were held in general livestock, dairy, horses, horticulture, mechanized agriculture, soils, and ' crop management.

UMC placed third in sweep-stakes competition. The crop management team placed first, horticulture team placed second, dairy cattle team tied for second,

ag mechanics team placed third, and soils team placed fifth.

UMC has participated in all contests sponsored by the host school since 1976 except 'in 1979 when UMC hosted the event, according to Truman Tilleraas, assistant professor of animal science.

Rural youth participate in fruit and project

A demonstration project to assist rural high school and young farmers to produce and market small fruit and vegetable crop's for sale in their local markets in northwestern Min-nesota was held June 11 to 13 at the University of Minnesota-Crookston.

"This year we are running demopstration-trial plots on the Northwest Experiment Station, holding several training wor kshops, and looking for people interested in participating as satellite producers during the final two years of the project," said Phil Baird, natural science . instructor and project hor-ticulturist.

The first year of the three year project will involve the establish-ment of small scale commercial fruit and vegetable demon-

stration trials at UMC and the development of marketing strategies. Work will also begin on an 'Ongoing technical assistance program for teachers, extension, staff, and producers.

A series of workshops and field days are planned to contact potential satellite producers interested in participating in subsequent years of the project. .

The first workshop for vocational-agriculture instru-ctors, county extension per-sonnel, and other interested parties was June 11-13 at UMC. The first day included a discussion of expectations, realities, and marketing strategies for the specialty crop producer.

The second day looked at strawberry and raspberry selection and culture, planting

and seeding techniques, and fertilizers.

Finally, there were cultural techniques and demonstrations with a tour of the field plots, and discussion of fruit and vegetable

. pests and pesticides. Workshop speakers included

Del Christiansen, consultant and horticulture instructor at Detroit Lakes A VTI; Dr. Wes Gray, horticulturist at the West Centr.al Experiment Station in Morris; Roger Wagner, associate professor and head of UMC's horticulture department; Dr. Luther Waters, extension hor-

. ticulturist at the University of Minnesota-8t. Paul; Dr. Marv Mattson, associate professor of agronomy at UMC; Dr. Penny Ives, assistant professor of en-tomology at the University of Minnesota-8t. Paul; and Baird.

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The Minnesota Legislature has approved funds to enhance dairy research and teaching thr-Ough the remodelling of facilities shared by UMC and the Nor-thwest Experiment Station. The original 1908 -dairy structure - will be replaced through this project.

CLASS OF It65-- First row, left to right: Allen -Sjostrand, Leslie Deckert, Cheryl (Lund) Kotrba, Carol ' (Lee) Cranney, Ilene (Vettleson) Bergerson, Janice (McElheney) Hadley, Rita (Dewhurst) Delaney, Darlyne (Kovar) Mathew Moe, Eldred Evenson. Second row, left to right: Ralph Kotrba, William "Buzz" Baldwin, David Lambert, Jerome Hermann, Larry Wilkens, Don Erdman, Ken Drees, Stanley Overgaard, Arden Berggren.

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, CLASS OF 1950- Left to right: Duane Wimpfheimer, LuElla (Brekke) Karevold, Chester Van Raden. _

CLASS OF 1930- Left to right: Arnold L. Hanson, Alvin Degerness, Emma Olson, William Strickler.

CLASS OF 1960- First row, left to right: Dan Straus, Duane Moe, KeQ, Straus, Bette (Hovet) Nelson, Jane. (Stromstad) Hasse, Gretchen (Connelly) Olsgard, Jim Breidenbach, Donna (Babinski) Kuta, Roberta (Bohnsack) Hagert, Wally Philipp, Ray Patenaude. Back row, left to right: -Ron Schultz, Roger Odegaard, Jerry Tjon, Gary Knepper, Terry Nelson, Hal Anderson, Joe Steffes, John Steinke, Mart Wall, Terry Stadstad, Greg Johnson, Coach Hersc h LYsacker.

CLASS OF 1955- Front left to right: Sheryl (Eisert) Hughes, Marlys (Love) Finkenbinder, Jean (Stromstad) Vigness, John Hoper, Willard Loing, Robert Kuznia, John Deschene, Orvin Drangstveit, James Olson, Ron Karlstad. Second row, left to right: LeRoy Sondrol, George Johnson, Glen Finkenbinder, Fred Clasen, Robert Eaton, Russell Carlson, Robert Johnson, Mary Lou (Arvenson) Wolden.

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The Class of 1935. members celebrated their 5O-year reunion.

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CLASS OF 1931- Left to right: Harold Olson, Gladys (Eggen) Jacobson, Ann (Thoreson) Anderson, C.E. "Buck" Johnson.

Alumni president ADan Dragseth '51 will represen,t the NWSA Alumni Association at UMC's Scholarship Recognition Banquet on October 26, 1985. This event honors both donors and student scholar-ship recipients. NWSA alumn i contributed $1,205 toward student -scholarships in 1985.

CLASS OF First row, left to right: Eugene (Sorenson) Nelson, Clifford Dahlsad. Back row, left to Mussleman, Owen Weckwerth, Wilbur Hallstrom, right: Morris Jensen, Ordell Frigstad, Donald Donald Esther (Norum) Gee, Margaret Jorgenson, Odney Flaat, Harvey Bloomquist, Andrew (Ristad) Bankers, Camilla (Ecklund) Johnson, Jean Skaar, Raymond Hoppe, Donald St. Marie, Violet (Halliday) Johnson, Eleanor (Olson) Snustad, Anne -(Anderson) Halfman, Ida (Bruer) Rife.

CLASS OF 194&- First row,left to right: Dick Nisbet, Youngren, Harley Youngren, Walter Larson. Back . . Loren Olson, Lloyd Dufault, Donald Dufault, Anna Mae row: Robert Davis, Charles. Ander:wn, Warr.en . . (Ecklund) Blade, Margaret (Johnson) Seeman, Olga . Mosbeck, .MelvIn Keith CLASS OF Left: Orville Anderson, Robert (Kowaliuk) Bourassa, Ruth (Norom) Ragsdale, Vietor, Pauline (Fmken.bmder) Purath, Patricia (Kurtz) Dresner, Lorraine (Myrum) Hansen, (Onstad) Ellertson, Marlon (Moe) DeBoer, Geneva Norma (Sylvester) Meyer, Moris Webster, Harold (Iverson) Spar by ,. Gordon Lyberg, Arnold Egtvet.

CLASS OF Left to right: Carl Narveson, Vivian (Lundberg) Aakre.

CLASS OF 1925- Left.to right: Mrs. Anna (Hoper) Davids, Mrs. Amy (Onneland) Love, Bennett Sharpe,Ross Jacobson, Harold Amundson.

CLASS OF 1935- First row, left to right: Laura '. (Hanson) Sherwood, Ebba (Maattala) Kral, Alvina

(Urbaniak) Tulibaski, Olive (Steen) Olson, Irene (Holst) Diercks, Anita (Bruss) Eiken '36, Bert Spence, Clifford Homstad, Arlo Bergh, Burnette Bergerson, Joyce (Stamnes) Bothum, Fern (Field) Christopher,

Gladys Reindal. Second row, left to right: Glenn Tasa, Harlan Pester, Olf Dahlen, Melvin Pearson, Harold Sanden, Omar Neslund, Carlos Grove, Clarence Stromberg, Alton Adderson '32, Lloyd Hovelson, Donald Gandrud.

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Over 325 Northwest School alumnl at-tended the aDDual summer reunion on June 29. Ten honored classes celebrated reunions and reminisced whUe touring the new campus facilities. .

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Is ·someone you know considering college at UMC?

A growing number of UMC students are second and third generation family members att.ending school on the Crookston campus. Northwest School of Agriculture traditions and educational excellence are continued the 48 technical and six preprofessional programs offered at the University of Minnesota-Crookston. UMC offers associate in applied science degrees in the areas of agriculture, business and hospitality and home economics, with curriculum support courses through the arts and sciences division.

Students receive quality education, small-campus camaraderie, University of Minnesota affiliation, and competitive educational costs. Do 'you have a son, daughter or friend asking your advice about college? Let us send you information about UMC.

TO: Admissions Office, University of Minnesota, Crookston, MN

Please send me information about:

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Annual· Fund rollcall Class of 1958 ___ $535.00

Class of 1929 ___ $450.00

Class of 1940 ___ $295.00

Class of 1955 --$290.00

Class of 1963 -- $255.00

Class of 1941 ___ $250.00

Class of 1947 ___ $235.00

Class of 194-.2 --- $220.00

Class of 1945 __ -$205.00

Class of 193.L.1 __ $200.00

Class of 1944 ___ $190.00

Class of 1927 ___ $180.00

Class of 1946 ___ $175.00

Class of 1967--- $175.00

Class of 1924 __ $165.00

Class of 1937 ___ $165.00

Class of 1939 ___ $165.00

Class of 195'7,,-__ $165.00

Class of 1961 __ $160.00

Class of 1948 ___ $150.00

Class of 19280---- $145.00

Class of 1938 ___ $145.00

Class of 1954-- $140.00

Class of 192 .... 5 __ $110.00

Class of 193.,..0 --$110.00

Class of 194t __ $101:' .00

Class of 1932 __ $100.00

Class of 1959 • $100.00

Class of 1943 $95.00

Class of 1953 ___ . $95.00 ,

Class of 1960 $95.00

Class of 1962 $95.00

Class of 1951 $90.00

Class of 1933 $85.00

Class of 1956 -$85.00

Class of 1950 $80.00

Class of 1966 $80.00

Class of 1920 $70.00

Class of 1952 $70.00

Class of 1934 $65.00

Class of 1964 $65.00

Class of 1914 $50.00

Class of 1965 $50.00

Class of 1922 $40.00

Class of 1923 ___ $40.00

Class of 1935 $40.00

Class of 1968 ___ $40.00

Class of 1916 --- $30.00

Class of 1936 ___ $30.00

Class of 1913 ___ $25.00

Class of 1919 ___ $25.00

Class of 192.&..1 ___ $20.00

Class of 1926 ___ $10.00

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David ' Berland '16 left ten percent of his , estate ' to the University of Minnesota- : Crookston. UMC's share, generated by the , sale of Bergland's farm land, will ! further educational programs at the i college.

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',Ann'ual Fund aid UMC, Coatributiooa to tbe :utasADDual FuDd by

Northweat Scboo1 alUlDDl will have a major impact On' the 198& academk year, and beyond. Yow: support of ' UIIC lCbolanbips BDcI iDstructioDal equipment will benefit c:IeserviDIltudents and insure con tin 'Jed quality education at the Uni.v.ersity of Minnesota-Crookston. Donations to the , NWSA Alumni' Auociation are used for publiabin. the AGGIE, promotion of the winter dinners, and pro\icli..a office and II8IOCiation supplies ..

In ;1t86tbe financt.J needI will increMe.

Harold Aasland '43 Kenneth Albertson ·35 Clifford Anderson '44 Harold Anderson '40 John Anderson '31 . Robert Anderson Mabel (BrandlD Baggett '39 Tom Banken '67 Alla (Clow) Barnes '45 Beulah (Harris) Barrick '33 Kenneth Beauchane '59 Ronald Beauchane '63 Jeanette (Bergh) Bedard '47 Ethel (Harris) Beman '28 David Boman '55 Robert Boucher '41 Wayne Boucher '59 Donald Boutain '43 Morris Brostrom '41 Melvin Capistran '45 Erling Carlson '36 Marian (Pederson) Cerkowniak '53 , Bruce Chapman '57 Keith Chapman '53 Martin Chilson '36 Donald Chisholm '68 Mark Chisholm '51 Harry Christiansen '41 June Christensen

*Morris Dahl '37 Robert Dahl '52

The Alumni AIIoc:iatiOll will bear .... tel"' .-.poaalbillty , for office needI' and the COlts of deveiopiDa the White House Alumni Center. Educational aid and in-structional material reqUirements · wiD remain a "top priority amonc UMC portera. '

UYC and the NWSA Alumni Asaociation Board of Directors thanks each of you for your Please respond apin when you are caUed during the :1986 ADnual Fund C8mpaip.

Chester Dawe '50 Una (Briden) DeBoer '22 Alvin Degerness '30 Harold Derosier '56 Doris (Tollefson) Desautels '52

*A1Ian Dragseth '57 Patricia (Kurtz) Dresner '45 Gunhild (Nesland) Duchamp '43 Lloyd Dufault '45 Janet (Klava) Dutcher '66 Wallace Eftefield '55 , John ,Eklund '58 Earl Ellinger '29

* Gordon Ellinger '29 Milton Ellinger '40 Orvis Engelstad '44 ' Lambert Erickson '28 James Felber '20 Gordon Fillipi '55 Carroll Flesche 'SO Darrell Fortin '49 Harvey Gabbert '64 Richard Gatheridge '62 Johanna (Nabben) Green '23 Verne Green '41 Harley Grefsheim '62

*Cora (Thompson) Grove '25 *Perry Haglund '46

Kathryn (Kowaliuk) Hall '49 Neil Hanson '61 Reuben Hanson '46 Neil Hegg '54

Dale Helm' '61 Merle Hennum '47 Ronald Hiller '59 Nannie (Germlinson) Hillesland '39 Melbern Hoeft '47 Richard Holmgren '33 William Hoper '23 Verne Hoppe .'42 Darrell Hursman '53 Jennie (Peterson) Hvidsten '22

* Helen (Hovland) Jackson '28 Merl Jenkins '34 Lloyd,..Jirava '64 Bert Johnson '24 Calmer Johnson "44 Harvey ' Johnson '29 Kenneth Johnson '47 Ray Johnson '-.& Richard Johnson 'as:

. Robert Johnson '55 Wendell KeIrn '55 James 'Kemp '61 Velura Kinnan '19 Clinton Klemetson '31 Marlys Klovstad Talbert Koppang '39 Erna (Aichele) La Chappelle '40 Donald LaPlante '39 Elizabeth Lapp '48 Richmond Lapp !47 Norman Larsen '58

*Carl Larson '24 Robert A. Larson '58

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*Robert Larson '29 Spencer Larson '55 George Lee '45 Helen (Carlson) Lee '34 Oscar Lee '13 Audrey Lepisto

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Carroll Lindstrom '49 Lucy (Harris) Llywelyn '47 Orvin Lommen '61 Duane Loyen '58 Joyce (Hunstad) Lindquist '47

. Henry Mackowick '26 Luke Maidment '58 Helen (Baird) McBride '41 Helen (Baird) McBride '41 Sue Carol (Mery) McQueen '50 Janet (Schaefer) Melgard '50 Kenneth Miller '45' Wallace Miller '24

* Donald Milner '42 Roger Moe '56 ' Duane Moen '37 Esther Molskness '58 Elvin, Moran '45 Wayne Mosher '54 Newell Mostad '40 Paul Motschenbacher '58 ' Wesley Motschenbacher '67 Jerome Mulvaney '57

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TOTAL $7 ,335 , ./': UNRESTRICTED $4,05$.

. ALUMNI :, .. " ',' $1',76<1> .. SCHOLARSHIPS $1 WHITE HOUSE $215 HAFSLO CHURCH ... ' $1 of? .

Carl Narveson '20 . Sophie (Krbechek) Narveson '21 Donald Nelson '44 Roger Nelson '50 . Cora (Dalager) Newell '37 Gerald Nicholson '64

* Les Nielsen '58 Leslie Nordling '41 Darrell Novacek '63 Harold Olson '31 James Olson '55 Fred· Ophus '56 Roger Ophus '45

* Randolph Ostlie '27 Steve Paul uk '49 Edward Pavek '48 John Pavek '49 Darlene (Erickson) Pearce '58 Frances Pearson '39 Orville Pearson '43 Daniel Pedersen '62 Wayne Pedersen '66 Eldor Pederson '27

*Ted Peet '29 . Beverly (Weiland) Perkins '50 Hazel (Noyes) Perras '31 Bergit (Johnson) Perry '51 Harvey Peterson '61 James Peterson '58 Lawrence Philipp '28 Ronald Philipp '64 Wallace Philipp '50 Frank Phillips '40 Dale Pulkrabek '44 Evelyn (Sorvig) Radzak '40 Annette (Rots) Rather '30 Ronald Ricard '54 Evinda (Koppang) Richwalski '30 Royal Rivard '67 Jean (Nisbet) Roberts '33 Dale Rokke '53 Gerhard Ross {46 Elmer Ruebke '39

* Edmund Rydeen '38 Rose (Naplitl) Salo '33 Richard Samuelson '14 Robert Samuelson '47 John Sannes '62 Clarence Sargent '41 Clarence Sargent '41 Randolph Saugstad '16 Raymond Schafer '42 Deane Scharmer '61 Louise (Krogstad) Schon '40 George Schulz '31 Walter Schulz '39

$7,335 I,

i * Robert Schumacheri '67

Russell Schumacher '60 Edmund SczepansIq '43 Thomas Sczepanskil '54 . Margaret Seeman '45 Anna (Jensen) Shatde '39 Myre (Hoiseth) Shannon '37 Benneth Sharpe '25 Roger Simmons '4i Leslie Smith '39 f

Marvel (Noyes) Smith '31 Leroy Sondrol '55 I Alfred Stedman , Don Ste. Marie '4« Roy Stoia, Jr. '47 I Clarice (Olson) StQlaas '56 Clarence Stromberg '35 Allan Stromstad

*John Stromstad * Paul-Suda '55 I

Wilbert Swanson '11 Bessie Swenson * Clarence Swenson I

* Alen Szczpanski (Torkelson) Tainto.r '42

Wilfred Taus '48 : Myron Torkelson '5,1 I

Clifford Trangsrud \.'37 Harvey Troska '47 :

* Duane Truhn '48 : _ Vera (Walters) Urrless '30

Clayton Verke '60 " Alden Vesledahl '44 , Joe Vonasek '38 Allen Wagner '64 Selma Waldal '30 Daniel Wallace '65 James Wallace '66 James Wells '33 Myrtle Whittenberg '21 Clarence Widner '34 '

* Edwin Widseth '32 ' Vivian Winge (

* Arnold Wolden '31 Elaine (Berge) Wurm '41 ftobert Yuergens '63 Ellsworth Zutz '41

202 Contributors * 21 Century Council Members ($100 Givers) 4 Matching Gifts

227 CONTRIBUTORS

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_Crops and Soils ' Day on the Northwest Experiment Station grounds attracted over 500 farmers and agribusiness people. The July 17 event marked an annual gathering and sharing of new research information and test results.

UMC Children's Center focuses oil summer themes Summer Things: Learning for

Fun will be a new focus for the UMC Children's Center. Sessions began June 3 and , un through August 23.

Supplementary educational, social, and recreation ex-periences to challenge children this summer are planned for two week periods through the sum-

-IDer, according to Marilyn Grave-8hubert, director of the Children's Center.

17-28 animal growth and care, music composition, dance aerobics, and ' music ap-preciation; July 1-12 puppetry, writing creative dramatics and earth sciences; July 15-26 biology and the human body and cultural studies of Hispanic, American Indians, Asian Americans, Norwegians; July 29-August 9 electricity, magnetism gravity and human sexuality; August 12-23 computer sciences and aerospace science. Emphasis included: June 3-14

c- Cooking experiences, nutrition education, plant growth and care, and gardening ,activities; lune

Programs are available for infant and toddlers, .age 2 and-a-half to 4; 5 to 8, and 9 to 12. Thirty alumni attended an estate planning seminar led by UMC's Director of Development

Lowell Larson.

about your NWSA -classmates 1925

CHRISTINE (VIGSTOL) JEGLUM, Grand Forks, ND: Worked as a nurse in and around Grand Forks. She also worked at VND Student JleaJth for seven and a half years and at the Deaconess Hospital until she retired in 1970. One of her hobbies is oil painting.

'1928 LILLIAN C. (BAKKEN) LILLEMOE.

Golden Valley, MN: Keeping busy with ' volunteer ' work, chorus, babysitting her great-grandson, and helping the disabled and recuperating people. She also attends church services and other church 'func-tions and senior citizen functions as well as trips to the theater. ' _

1935 HAROLDD. SANDEN, Vero Beach, FL:

Graduated from U of M in 1941 with a masters degree in animal science-agricultural economy. Was in the 7th Air Force Central Pacific in 194:4-45.

1937 MARSHALL E';ANS. Le";l)e:: !'L.:

Married 45 years to Pat Hoven, three sons (all MD's), and eleven grandchildren. He has had 24 years of employment in research, and 10 years in international work and travel for the Green Giant Co.

Lost Alumni John M. Nelson '30 Marie Tastad '30 William Peltier '38

I Wayne Gray '45 , t Charles Armstrong , '55

Harold Ash '55 Dickey Eastvold '55 Shirley (Norgaard) Olfson '55 Shirley Ann (Johnson) Brown '64

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1938 ELEANORE R. (WEBER) SWIFT,

Crookston, MN: She taught rural school and also worked as a bookkeeper for eight years, retiring in 1981. Married Hugh Swift in 1942. They have six children and 13 grandchildren. Their oldest sons graduated from NWSA in 1962. Hobbies include sewing, machine knitting, crocheting, dancing, and traveling in the United States.

'1940 ERNA LACHAPPELL. Denali Park,

AL: Spending the summer in Alaska working and enjoying Denali National Park.

ROSAIRE MO-NTCALM, Milo, WI: Retired as of November 1, 1984. He is very much involved in cjvic activities such as helping children less fortunate than others. He also travels and has spent much of last winter in Texas and New Mexico panning for gold in the Bradshaw Moun-tains. "Didn't find any fortune, but it was sure fun trying!"

1945 MARVIN E. JENSEN, Fort Collins, CO:

National program leader for ARS's national research program on water-salinity management. He graduated from NDSU, Fargo, ND, and obtained his Ph.D degree in civil engineering froni ColOrado State University. He has co-authored 100 technical papers,' chaired numerous national committees, and has been in-volved in foreign research projects. He received several awards from the , USDA, including the Service Award.

1949 JOYCE (ANDERSON) LEE, Fargo,

ND: Starting her teaching career in a one-room rural school in Griggs County, she continued taking college classes summers and evenings and obtained aer masters from NDSU. Since moving to Fargo in 1965, she has taught the fourth grade at Jefferson Elementary School. '

, 1950 LYLE C.KASPRICK, Minneapolis, MN.

1954 GRANT M. SATRES, Grygla, MN: The

Satres were recognized recently through the University of Minnesota Extension Service as Marshall County's outstanding farm couple. They attended the recognition program conducted at the University of Minnesota's st. Paul campus and participated in tours and workshops. The Satres farm 2,500 acres seven miles northwest of Grygla and are active in a number of community and area organizations. They recently installed a prieumatic grain handling system on the farm.

1959 ,ART BRANDLI. Warroad, MN: Was

recently named Roseau CoWlty 'Farm Family of. the Year. Art is on the UMC Advisory Committee, and he and his wife Nancy have been 4-H leaders, church board members, and commWlity board members. They have four children.

1960 DONNA (BABINSKI) KUTA.

Mahtomedi, MN: She is married and has four children. She is a domestic engineer and agent.

Faculty 1923·29

DELMER , LAVOI, Brooklyn, MI: Former instructor and coach, he is now retired but still owns interest in top-rating cattle of the highest breeding value. He and his wife Marian were honored at an open house celebration observing their 50th wedding anniversary'.

1926·32 ROSE (POLSKI> ANDERSON. St. Paul,

MN.

1939 DOROTHY (LARSON) BILLBERG.

Roseau, MN: RecenUy retired after 42, years in the classroom. She began teaching in a small rural school south of Alvarado, MN. She spent two years there and two more years in a rural school north of Alvarado. The last 38 years were spent in the Roseau School District. She taught the second and third grades in Wannaska and grade one for the last 21 years in the city of Roseau. She was named Roseau Teacher of the Year in 1980. She has been an active member of Messiah Lutheran Church and the MLCW. She taught Sunday School and also served as Sunday School Superintendent. She was a 4-H Club leader for 18 years and is presently a member of the Lady Slipper Garden Club and the WCTU. She and het husband Elwood have been married for 44 years and have two sons.

In Memoriam Ella Geddes '19 ' Grand Forks, ND June 5, 1985

Kenneth Halvorson '25 Sauk Rapids, MN October, 22, 1980

Sophie (Breiland) Burstad '27 Grand Forks, ND June 4, 1985

Hannah (Degerness) Hermanson '27 Twin Valley, MN May, 1985

Terrance Garry '45 Euclid, MN