Bachelor of Arts degree certificate for Ole Edward Rolvaag awarded by St. Olaf College of Northfield, Minnesota on June 13, 1905. Signed by J. N. Kildahl and J. O. Hougen. A cut several inches long goes through the top center of the certificate. Document was removed from its frame just prior to scanning.
In an oral history conducted by St. Cloud State University Professor of History Calvin (Cal) Gower on April 21, 1982, John Derus explained his family and educational background. Derus was born in 1940 in northeast Minneapolis. His family lived in the area for five generations, though they were originally of Irish, German, and French ancestry. After graduating from DaLaSalle High School, then the University of Minnesota on a football scholarship for a year before quitting in order to work to make money for his family. His father, along with one of his sisters, died in a plane crash, leaving the family financially strained. Derus mentioned his reasons for choosing to attend St. Cloud State University. He explained the good things he heard about St. Cloud, as well as his desire to work with children and help those who were in trouble. Derus chronicled his time in St. Cloud, attending classes when he could but also working more than full-time, both at the St. Cloud Children's Home and as a bartender. He discussed his favorite teachers, such as Herb Goodrich and Henry Goehring. In addition, Derus mentioned that he enjoyed the smaller class sizes, as compared with those at the University of Minnesota. A interesting aspect of the interview focused on Derus's description of the culture for young people in St. Cloud at the time, including living arrangements, and what he called a subculture of ""workies,"" college students who were forced to work in order to put themselves through college. Derus described his involvement in extracurricular activities at St. Cloud State, including one play and intramural sports as well as campus politics. He graduated from St. Cloud State in 1967 with a double major in Psychology and Sociology. He also addressed his post-graduate experiences, including his work with the Peace Corps in India, where he taught English for two years. Upon his return from India, he decided to get involved in politics, landing a position with Hubert Humphrey. He was elected as alderman of the 4th Ward in Minneapolis and later as Hennepin County Commissioner in 1974. Derus detailed the way that the community of St. Cloud and the University helped him get his life on track at a time when it was not going well at all.
Class of 1901, Mankato State Normal School: Lottie Nott, Fannie Jacobs, Gertrude Keeley, Nellie Coughlin, Benj N. Zeiske, Emma Thornquest, Mamie Ericson, Anna Jerdee, Ella Billington, Bonnie Andrews, Irene Newton, Cathrine Byrue, Bertha Sandstrom, Florence Pond, Loiuse Braafladt, H.I. Pettis, Lillie Stohl, Margaret Davis, Ruth Jones, Dorathea Schneider, Rose Foley, Bernita Booth, Leo Carney, Bertha Paine, Hattie Gilmore, Jessie Woodbury, Minnie Nelson, Lena Rinkel, C. Rosenmeier, Mabel Sherin, Gertrude Sherman, Florence Odjard, Alberta Ackerman, Lucy Gainer, Nellie Sheldon, Margeurite Madden, Katherine O'Grady, Lillian Paff, Isabella Boyd, Ella McCarthy, Adelia Monson, Ida Geske, Didrick Oleson, Florence Pierce, Edith M. Pinney, Frances Hammer, Bertha Bradley, Montie Sutton, Mary Griffiths, Minnie S. Leavitt, Grace Hurd, Guy Robinson, Edith Phelps, Marie Schrepel, Laura Torston, Hilda Hammer, Edward Gugisberg, Rose Sahr, Sigurd Pederson, Winifred Lawrence, Eugene W. Bohannon, George E. Partridge, Defransa ASwann, President C.H. Cooper, Harreit McCarthy, Francis Hill, Henry Detamore, Ethel Jones, Pearl Murphy, Rances McBride, Harriette Marlowe Webb, Emma Scheiderich, Grace B. Clork, Alice V. Robbins, Jessie Spencer, Ida Mabel Basterdes, Martha V. Collins, Helen Ronald, Frances Cook, Eva Boegen, Lotta Larson, Della Grill Hattie Austin, Frederick Lyle Searing, Kate H. Sparrow, Ulysses O. Cox, Achsa Parker, Helen M. Philips, Dora Schram, Edith Hoagland, Lina Hensel, Helen Upham, Ida Stevenson, Louise Meile, Carolyn M. Robbins, Minnie Sweetland Parry, Charles F. Koehler, Fred L. Holtz, Charles E. Olson, Ressa Paschke, Nora Howat, J.K. Parker, Eliza Tenney, Anna Attenburg, Alice Williams, Cora A.N. Carney, Edith Horr, Caroline Christman Minnie Crist, Josephine Woolson, Mary Forsberg, Mamie Smith, Ella Lowe, Francis Wills, Harriet Weir, Lillian Smith, Emma Griffin, Elizabeth Stevens, Auguste McGonagle, Frances Powell, Laura Baumhoefeuer, Gertrude Yates, Ida H. Braadladt, Cleora Ramsdell, Herman Froehlich.
Contributing Institution:
University Archives and Southern Minnesota Historical Center, Memorial Library, Minnesota State University, Mankato
Group photograph of students, faculty and staff in 1924, Mankato State Teachers College in front of Old Main. Faculty and staff are in the front row, with President Charles H. Cooper in the middle.
Contributing Institution:
University Archives and Southern Minnesota Historical Center, Memorial Library, Minnesota State University, Mankato
Group photograph of students, faculty and staff in 1928, Mankato State Teachers College in front of Old Main. Faculty and staff are in the front row, with President Charles H. Cooper in the middle.
Contributing Institution:
University Archives and Southern Minnesota Historical Center, Memorial Library, Minnesota State University, Mankato
Group photograph of students, faculty and staff in 1926, Mankato State Teachers College in front of Old Main. Faculty and staff are in the front row, with President Charles H. Cooper in the middle.
Contributing Institution:
University Archives and Southern Minnesota Historical Center, Memorial Library, Minnesota State University, Mankato
Group photograph of students, faculty and staff in 1929, Mankato State Teachers College in front of Old Main. Faculty and staff are in the front row, with President Charles H. Cooper in the middle.
Contributing Institution:
University Archives and Southern Minnesota Historical Center, Memorial Library, Minnesota State University, Mankato
Group photograph of students, faculty and staff in 1925, Mankato State Teachers College in front of Old Main. Faculty and staff are in the front row, with President Charles H. Cooper in the middle.
Contributing Institution:
University Archives and Southern Minnesota Historical Center, Memorial Library, Minnesota State University, Mankato
Publication containing journal articles written by St. Cloud State faculty and students, covering a wide variety of topics mostly related to public education, as well as containing about alumni, students, faculty, and campus events related to St. Cloud State. This issue is devoted to graduates, students, and friends in Manila for the Spanish-American War; "A Hot Time for Minnesota," a war song sung in Manila; "The Battle of Manila: By One Who was There," a first hand account of experiences in Manila, including battles; "The Products and Industries of the Philippines"; "Life in Camp Dewey" and "An Episode in a Singer’s Life."
Publication containing journal articles written by St. Cloud State faculty and students, covering a wide variety of topics mostly related to public education, as well as containing about alumni, students, faculty, and campus events related to St. Cloud State. Articles include "The Present American Problem," "A Fable" poem, "The Patronymic Tribe and Folk," "School Discipline," and a continuation of "An Episode in a Singer’s Life."
Publication containing journal articles written by St. Cloud State faculty and students, covering a wide variety of topics mostly related to public education, as well as containing about alumni, students, faculty, and campus events related to St. Cloud State. Articles include "Fatigue Test in the Model School, Conducted by the Child-Study class," "Autobiography of Goethe," "Madame Dudevant" and other biographies, "Universal Traits of Childhood Shown in Pierre Loti’s ‘Romance of a Child’," and "A Reminiscence"; "The Great Debate: St. Cloud-Duluth."
Publication containing journal articles written by St. Cloud State faculty and students, covering a wide variety of topics mostly related to public education, as well as containing about alumni, students, faculty, and campus events related to St. Cloud State. Articles include "North-Aryan and South-Aryan," "The Bamboo Christmas Tree," and "The Town that was Sold."
Publication containing journal articles written by St. Cloud State faculty and students, covering a wide variety of topics mostly related to public education, as well as containing about alumni, students, faculty, and campus events related to St. Cloud State. Articles include "War and Character," continuation of "Literature in the Model," "De Psychologiae Pretio," "Do We Think in Images?," and "Physical Education."
Publication containing journal articles written by St. Cloud State faculty and students, covering a wide variety of topics mostly related to public education, as well as containing about alumni, students, faculty, and campus events related to St. Cloud State. Articles include "Literature in the Model" written by students in the Model School, "School has Begun," and "The American Doctrine."
Publication containing journal articles written by St. Cloud State faculty and students, covering a wide variety of topics mostly related to public education, as well as containing about alumni, students, faculty, and campus events related to St. Cloud State. Articles include "Advantages and Disadvantages of the Rural School to the Practice Teacher," "Teachers' Salaries in Rural Schools," "Educational Advantages of the Country Child," continuation of "The Town that was Sold," "Boer and Briton," "A Logging Camp in Minnesota," and "H.W. Longfellow."
Publication containing journal articles written by St. Cloud State faculty and students, covering a wide variety of topics mostly related to public education, as well as containing about alumni, students, faculty, and campus events related to St. Cloud State. This issue contains articles written about the Spanish-American War and the Philippines from students, alum, friends of SCSU including "Street Fighting in Tondo," "The Battle of Tondo," "The Battle of Marquina Valley," "A Letter from a Soldier," "From an Ex-Soldier," and "The Dewey Celebration."
Publication containing journal articles written by St. Cloud State faculty and students, covering a wide variety of topics mostly related to public education, as well as containing about alumni, students, faculty, and campus events related to St. Cloud State. Articles include "Hospitality," "Some Sentences from a Teacher's Observation Book," "Underneath Italian Skies," "Teacher Study," "Two Souls," and "An Evening's Sport" detailing a wrestling exhibition and basketball game held on January 27.
Publication containing journal articles written by St. Cloud State faculty and students, covering a wide variety of topics mostly related to public education, as well as containing about alumni, students, faculty, and campus events related to St. Cloud State. Articles include "Harold Fairhaired: A History Story for the Sixth Grade," "Our New Pictures," "Music," and "My School."
Publication containing journal articles written by St. Cloud State faculty and students, covering a wide variety of topics mostly related to public education, as well as containing about alumni, students, faculty, and campus events related to St. Cloud State. Articles include "The Relation of Nature Study to Other Subjects," "Notes on Mrs. Burbank’s Lectures," "Life and Anecdotes of the Country School Boy," and "The Story of King Lear."
Publication containing journal articles written by St. Cloud State faculty and students, covering a wide variety of topics mostly related to public education, as well as containing about alumni, students, faculty, and campus events related to St. Cloud State. Articles include "Fragments of an Autobiography," "That Last Hour," "A Study of Children’s Interest in Stories," "A Study of Interests in Literature," "The Graduate’s Revery," "Class Song," "The Transvaal War," "Mental Associations," and "Habitual Postures of Children in the School Room."
Publication containing journal articles written by St. Cloud State faculty and students, covering a wide variety of topics mostly related to public education, as well as containing about alumni, students, faculty, and campus events related to St. Cloud State. Articles include "Autumn Song," "Communal Life Among Insects," "Lesson Plan," "Perception and Its Cultivation," "Two Pictures of Caesar" written by Isabel Shoemaker, "A Day’s Outing," "A Border Knight," "Robin Hood’s Adventure with the Miller," "A Plea for Music," and "Protective Devices of Plants."
Publication containing journal articles written by St. Cloud State faculty and students, covering a wide variety of topics mostly related to public education, as well as containing about alumni, students, faculty, and campus events related to St. Cloud State. Articles include "Benefits of Physical Culture," "Liquids and their Forms," "Depend on Thyself," "Greece," "Some Elements of Education," "New Years Day," and "The Christmas Star."
Publication containing journal articles written by St. Cloud State faculty and students, covering a wide variety of topics mostly related to public education, as well as containing about alumni, students, faculty, and campus events related to St. Cloud State. Articles include "The Nineteenth Century," "A Note on Education," "The Moon Maiden," "A Christmas in 1852" written by Jessie Burrall, "A Fire in the Country," "Only a Newsboy," "Aleen’s Decision," "A Charity Christmas Tree," and "The Outcome of the Watch Party."
