Four teachers who are also alumni of the Minnesota Institute for Defectives (Deaf, Blind and Feeble-Minded) pose for a portrait. From left to right, they are John Doheny (who attended during 1885-1894), Louis Albert Roth (who attended during 1881-1891 and was a housefather during 1899-1902 and a graphics arts instructor during 1902-1937), Mr. Byrne, and George A. Harmon (who attended during 1863-1870 and was a coopering instructor during 1886-1889).
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Minnesota State Academy for the Deaf Alumni Association Museum
Dr. George Gordon, founder and driving force behind the Minneapolis Talmud Torah is in the center, front row. Dr. Gordon introduced modern teaching methods, grades, and a rigorous curriculum to Hebrew instruction, and remained administratively independent of any religious congregation. High school classes were the second level of instruction: students graduated after 3 years.
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University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives
Students in 1961 at North Central Bible Institute in Minneapolis Minnesota. Staff (Beginning top row, left to right): Philip Gustafson, Fred Halquist (Building Manager), Arnold Swanson (Maintenance), Frank Leroy (First Engineer), Unidentified, Betty Hintz (Cafeteria), Ethel Hague (Cafeteria), Arline Swanson (Assistant Matron and Housekeeper), Estella Burkhart (Librarian), Virginia Peterson (Bookkeeper). Faculty (Left to right): Reverend Wilson A. Katter, Ione Soltau (Dean of Women, Instructor in Religious Education and Psychology), Frank J. Lindquist (Instructor in Doctrine I, Doctrine II, and Parliamentary Law, Founder), G. Raymond Carlson (Instructor in Pastoral Theology, President), Ivan O. Miller (Instructor in Introduction to Prophecy), T. J. Jones (Instructor in Old Testament, Acts, and Prophecy), Reverend M. C. Nelson (Dean of Men, Instructor in Bible, Speech, and Religious Education), John Phillipps (Instructor in Greek, Psychology, Literature, Philosophy, Romans), Arvid Kingsriter (Instructor in New Testament, Thessalonians, and Corinthians), Amos Levang (Instructor in History of Religious Education and Pedagogy), Alyce Phillipps (Instructor in First Aid), L. B. Larsen (Instructor in Conducting, Music History), Orill Krans (Instructor in Polemics, Music Appreciation, Band, and Choralettes), Leland Shultz (Instructor in Religious Education), Ray Levang (Instructor in English, Church History, Ancient History and Science). Seniors (Left to right): Lorenzo Cutsforth, David Fincher, Barbara Gilbert, Thurman Green, Esther Hansen, John Holmquist, Esther Hultquist, Melvin Johnson, Jim King, Sally Lake, Elaine Lewis, Leroy Lewis, Sylvia Loukinen, Lowell Lundstrom, Franklin McDuffie, Larry Malcolm, Edward Messinger, Fred Orr, Neal Paulson, James Ralson, Frank Stegeman. Junior Graduate (left to right): Elaine Cutsforth, Nancy Bent, Inez Bork, Estel Clark, Bonnie Fischer, Gordon Fraser, Gayle Turner, Bonita Jones, Richard McWatters, Darrel Osborn, Florence Simmons, Audrey Storms, Ray Storms, Howard Stenerson, Raymond Bey, Douglas Bjerke, Daniel Bowman, Robert Bruemmer, John Burnell, Naomi Burroughs, Douglas Clair, David Crawford, Russell Eckerson, Arnie Gilbertson, Victor Hedman, Evangeline Heitke, Paul Hendren, Samuel Johnson, Jack Packila, Joy King, Roger Koeshall, Doris Lanus, Darrell Olson, Leon Olson, David Opie, Gary Ribble, Beverly Ryan, John Sandgren, Bennie Sheffield, David Simmons, John Sorensen, Jeannette Standen, Marcella Stevenson, Elda St. John, Roger Swanson, Robert Turner, Sharon Turner, Lola Vetter, Sarah Vetter, Sharon Wallace, Louis Walton, David Ward. Junior Graduate (Outside border): Lyle Blair, Gordon Bialik, Richard Ballinger, David Baldwin, Robert Abbott, Bruce Talso, Donald Upton, Irene Van Demark, Royal Voeller, Joan Ward, Ilene Williams. Sophomores (Beginning top row, left to right): Dennis Abbott, Janice Adamson, Ellen Aldrich, Erma Aldrich, Maryln Anderson, Richard Babcock, Barbara Baker, JoAnn Battishill, Rolf Bergman, Marlin Bowman, Mary Buntenbach, Mildred Burgess, Thomas Byrtus, David Campbell, Craig Carter, Connie Center, Robert Cilke, Elwin Clifton, Elaine Coats, John Collins, John Colwell, Richard Corning, David Cutsforth, Charles Davis, Ruth Droll, Lois Elfstrom, Eloise Engle, Charles Fairfield, Fern Geffert, Mae Marie Godfrey, Beryl Grunewald, Beverly Hart, Barbara Haugen, Ivan Holmquist, Melvin Holmquist, Larry Jent, Jack Johnson, Jerroll Jorgenson, Bevery Krans, Byron Krans, Ralph Leiviska, Robert McCown, Linda Mancini, Delores Mathis, Lloyd Meyer, Jerry Miller, Irene Moening, David Nelson, Roger Pankratz, Jerry Parsley, Karen Parsley, James Phillips, Dennis Pigman, Kennett Radford, Larry Redmond, Arlene Rosewall, Georgia Rothwell, Loretta Rothwell, Leonard Salvig, Gayrene Schooley, Robert Schooley, Peggy Scofield, Linda Seddon, Gerald Smith, Mary E. Smith, Wayne Smitham, Carol Stevens, Jack Strom, Alice Szabo, Judy Teehee, Jeanette Thompson, Arthur Walker, Edward Werranen, Helen Werranen, Charles Westendorf, John Wibley, Richard Wills, William Winkler, Phillip Yoakum. Freshmen (left to right): Barbara Adair, Arden Adamson, Norma Agee, Richard Allen, Thelma Allen, David Anderson, Ronald Anderson, Aloa Atkins, Clarence Axmark, Tammy Bakker, Lannie Berryman, Ruth Ann Bosak, Evelyn Boyd, Leon Brackenridge, David Briley, Sharon Brinson, Frances Brooks, Russell Brown, Darrel Bush, Ronald Callahan, Janet Cedarlund, Beverly Christianson, Robert Coble, Orrin Conklin, Margaret Copley, Marianna Corning, Karen Curry, Vernon Davidson, Viola Dietzman, Roger Doty, James Drown, Marjean Duerksen, George Ehara, Richard Elie, Melva Engle, Larry Foster Joanne Freeman, Danielle Fulk, Doris Geffert, Dorothy Graf, Judy Gross, Gail Gross, Ernest Griffith, Lila Griffith, Darlene Hacht, Wendell Hagenbeck, Lois Harms, Tom Hartwell, Rita Hays, James Henderson, Velva Jo Howard, Marilyn Knecht, Peter Koeshall, Ruth Kooi, Stanley Kramer, Fred Kuykendoll, Dorothy Lewis, Gary Lidgerding, Glenda Line, Daniel Lund, Ted MacDowell, Unidentified, Dennis Masters, Marvin Mathis, Ruth Ann Mathis, Lorrell McCullough, Earl Megginson, Dolores Metz, Sharon Michaelson, Francine Miller, Jean Mulholland, Alice Mustain, Carole Myers, Charles Myers, Robert Novak, Shirley O'Brien, Elaine Olson, Martha Ott, Sandra Petrinec, Unidentified, Robert Ramphal, Viola Reed, Arthur Reif, Kenneth Ross, Thomas Scalf, Marcus Selness, Charles Skaggs, Delmar Skaret, Kathy Skjonsby, Twyla Smith, Anna Staley, Donna Stevens, Elaine Storvik, Roger Striemer, Ethel Sumner, William Thomas, David Thompson, Patricia Ware, Harvey Warren, Unidentified, Judy Wieman, Ronna Lou Wiley, James Williams, Larry Wood, Ardell Youngberg. Unclassified (left to right): Sandra Anderson, Ginger Ballweber, Lonnie Beard, Lora Lee Bowman, Sandra Canaevit, Jane Holmes, Beverly Holmgren, Rose McKenzie, Judy Nelson, Janet Shoberg, Cleveland Smalls, Joyce Smith, Robert Taylor, Erma Voeller, Naomi Winters, Arliss Wyant, David Wood, Darlene Wyant. In 1938, North Central Business College (NCBC) was created and added to the school's title. NCBC was dropped in 1945, and, in 1946, NCBI became NCBI&TS when a Theological Seminary (TS) was added. The seminary remained until 1949. North Central Bible Institute was renamed North Central Bible College in 1957. The most recent name change was in 1998, when North Central Bible College became North Central University.
Students are assembled with teacher Ruth Buxton for a portrait. Ruth Buxton served at the school during 1892-1893. From back to front, left to right, the students are fingerspelling "I-L-O-V-E-M-I-S-S-B-U-X-T-O-N" for the sentence "I love Miss Buxton."
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Minnesota State Academy for the Deaf Alumni Association Museum
William Grace, Michael Healy, and James Byrnes appearing in the College of St. Thomas theatrical production of "Handy Andy." Negative Number: C82-150-214.
Schools in north-central Minnesota (1871-1909). Sister Dignata Plachta taught at St. Boniface School in Melrose from 1905 to 1951 (Saint Benedict's Monastery Archives).
A group of members of the Sigma Delta Tau Sorority in caps and gowns. Sigma Delta Tau sorority was founded by seven young women at Cornell University in 1917. The seven had had been denied membership into other Greek organizations because they were Jewish.
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University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives
Members of the Sigma Alpha Mu basketball team are posed in uniform. Sigma Alpha Mu was founded in 1909 at City College in New York as a Jewish fraternity. The University of Minnesota had an active chapter.
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University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives
Senior class of 1939 at North Central Bible Institute in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Students (Top row, left to right): Harvey Anderson, Erma Black, Lela Brown, Nola Brown, Donald Brubaker, Ruth Buck, Lorraine Carlblom, Naomi Chapman, Violet Chenney, Milo Cole, Lorraine Cook, Alice Corbett, Elizabeth Coxe. (Second row, left to right): Alice Crump, Iva Demmer, Ethel Demmer, Lillian Detjeng, Harold Dubbels, Agnes Dumke, George Erickson, Harvey Flaherty. (Third row, left to right): Lucille Gillingham, Viola Haarstad, Loretta Halstad, Victor Hillestad, Thomas Hollingsworth, Clarence Johnson. (Fourth row, left to right): Melvin Jorgenson, Edna Kiemele, Orrin Kingsriter, Carl Klapel, Opal Krueger, Melvin Larson. (Fifth row, left to right): William Leek, Norine Lewis, Willis Long, Inez Magnuson, Ethel Martin, Vernon Mathon, Alice McKinniss, Dorothy Morris. (Sixth row, left to right): Alfred Nelson, Frank Nordby, Stella Palanuk, Raeburn Peterson, Virgil Peterson, Florence Rector, Clayton Scharnberg, Ida Schwilk, Martha Siewart, Florence Turner, Jonathan Wahl, Marian Williams, Delbert Woodard, Dale Zink. Faculty (Beginning top row, left to right): Ivan O. Miller (Dean), F. J. Lindquist (President), Anna Froland (Dean of Women), C. M. Ward, Russell H. Olson, Emil A. Balliet, W. H. Boyles, Frances Axtell, Wilson A. Katter. North Central Bible Institute (NCBI) was founded in 1930. In 1938, North Central Business College (NCBC) was created and added to the school's title. NCBC was dropped in 1945, and, in 1946, NCBI became NCBI&TS when a Theological Seminary (TS) was added. The seminary remained until 1949. North Central Bible Institute was renamed North Central Bible College in 1957. The most recent name change was in 1998, when North Central Bible College became North Central University.
A portrait of William D. Jamieson, a professor of dramatics and oratory at the College of St. Thomas. He was also the first coach of the debating team.
Victor O. Skyberg was the fifth superintendent of the Minnesota School for the Deaf, and served during 1928-1932. He attended St. Olaf College where it is said that he met a deaf student there. He then obtained a M.A. degree from the Normal Department at Gallaudet College. He also taught at Gallaudet College.
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Minnesota State Academy for the Deaf Alumni Association Museum
Portrait of the Reverend Samuel Fletcher Kerfoot, Hamline University president, 1912-1927. A 1889 Hamline graduate, he was a minister in the Methodist church and president of Dakota Wesleyan University, Mitchell, South Dakota, before becoming Hamline's president.
Roswell H. Kinney was the first superintendent of the Minnesota Institute for the Deaf, Dumb and Blind, and served during 1863-1866. He was present when the school opened on September 9, 1863. The school's name changed from "Minnesota Institute for the Education of the Deaf and Dumb" to "Minnesota Institute for the Deaf, Dumb and Blind" during his administration.
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Minnesota State Academy for the Deaf Alumni Association Museum
Raymond P. Kaighn, Class of 1898. He was Hamline University's first physical education director and Hamline's coach for the first intercollegiate basketball game ever played, which was against the Minnesota School of Agriculture in 1895. He also played on the first basketball team under the direction of James Naismith at the international YMCA training school in Springfield, Massachusetts.