The Aurora Club for Young Women was sponsored by the Emanuel Cohen Center on Minneapolis's North Side. The club provided recreational and social opportunities for young Jewish women in the neighborhood.
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University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives
The Polars Club basketball team, sponsored by the Emanuel Cohen Center in North Minneapolis. The E. C. C. had no gym: games were played at settlement houses in other parts of the city with gymnasiums. E. C. C. games were played at the Wells Settlement House, which primarily served the North Side Finnish community.
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University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives
Group portrait of five basketball players. Back row: Paul Doeltz, Class of 1899; Robert Stoddart, Academy. Front row: P.P. Brush, 1901; Roy W. Smits, 1900; Floyd Brown, Academy.
Macalester men's basketball team in street clothes with suitcases, outside of Old Main: Watkins (manager), Holley, Welshons, Coach Burgess, Brownlee, Baldwin, Phillips, and Campbell.
Posed group portrait of Macalester's men's basketball team. First row: Roy Grieg, Class of 1918; Clarence Wilmert, 1917; Ralph Grieg, 1918; Francis Anderson, 1919; and Arthur Whiton, 1918. Second row: Coach Ralph Thacker; Wallace Gibson, 1917; George Taylor, 1920; and Clifford Medcalf, 1920.
Group portrait of six players in uniform and coach posing in a line (left to right) E.W. Johnson, R.N. Bell, W.H. Holley, W.C. Phillips (Captain), E.W. Jahnke, J. Brinks (Manager), and H.O. Burgess (Coach).
Members of the boys' basketball team are assembled for a portrait. The man with a white beard seated in the center of the front row is Superintendent James N. Tate. Standing behind Superintendent Tate is coach Victor R. Spence.
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Minnesota State Academy for the Deaf Alumni Association Museum
Members of the boys' basketball team are posed with an award in front of the Gymnasium building. In the front row, from left to right, are William Berg, Bert Smith, Conrad Setran, Glen Samuelson, Carl Pehlgrim, and Waino Ekman. In the back row, from left to right, are faculty manager Wesley Lauritsen, student manager Herman Ahern, Robert Clark, Jasper Colianni, Jack Guyette, John Fatticci, and coach Lloyd Ambrosen.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota State Academy for the Deaf Alumni Association Museum
Members of the girls' basketball team are assembled on the outside steps of a school building. The student sitting to the left of the student holding a basketball is Mildred Saunders.
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Minnesota State Academy for the Deaf Alumni Association Museum
The boys basketball team pictured in uniform with their coach. The Emanuel Cohen Center had no gym: games were played at settlement houses in other parts of the city with gymnasiums. E. C. C. games were often played at the Wells Settlement House, which served the North Side's Finnish community.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives
The Hovland CCC camp, Company 722 basketball team is shown. This team traveled to games around the Cook County and into Canada. The coach shown is Joseph Spitznagle the camp's education advisor.
Blaine Baesler (1920-2015), a three-sport player in high school, including making All Conference as a football player, discusses growing up and playing football, basketball, and baseball in Lake City, Minnesota, and ice boating on Lake Pepin. He also discusses how his father, a harness maker, helped Ralph Samuelson, the inventor of waterskiing, experiment with making straps for water skis.
Although the headline in this newsletter reported that Lincoln was defeated at the basketball tournament in Barnum, of greater interest is the article detailing being stranded for two days in Barnum due to a snowstorm. Also included are school and class news items and jokes. The sub-district basketball game between Lincoln and Cromwell was written about. A student commentary focused on losing school time because of snow. Student Gilbert Nyberg wrote a memoir of mischievousness, including annoying an old hermit living by what was presumably the Palkki Grist Mill. It was created by the library and staff of Lincoln High School, typed by Hilda Tan, and written by Ida Lahti and Clifford Guss.
This newsletter's detailed lead article reports on Superintendent Winterquist's trip to Washington D.C. and environs, in his role as one of two delegates chosen to represent Minnesota schools at the National Superintendent's Convention. Superintendent Winterquist spoke to all the students about his trip to Washington D. C. Other items include Lincoln Basketball team's victory against Floodwood; a miscellany of school and class news items, a poem, and jokes. An article speculated about Lincoln's chances of winning the basketball tournament at Barnum. It was created by the library and staff of Lincoln School in Thomson Township and typed by Hilda Tan, with articles written by Ailie Suominen and Ruth Lang.
This newsletter leads with the heading of Lincoln to Participate in Tournament in Barnum. In addition, it covers a basketball game against Carlton, Lincoln's old rival; has quirky school news items; sub-district basketball tournament plans involving Lincoln, Floodwood, Willow River, and Cromwell Schools. Other items include a poem about trees in autumn by student Mabel Johnson, and a student commentary on whispering in class. It was created by the library and staff of Lincoln School in Thomson Township and typed by Hilda Tan, with articles written by Mamie Maunu and John Hallbeck.
The headline to this edition is about a contest conducted by the Spotlight to see which students spoke using the best English. Also included were detailed accounts of Lincoln Basketball team defeating Proctor Young Men's Christian Association team as well as a variety of jokes, school and class news items, and seniors receiving class rings. In an oratorical contest in English III Ailie Suominen finished first, Mamie Maunu placed second, with Gilbert Nyberg winning third. It concludes with a commentary about habits, as well as an editorial about revising the Lincoln Who's Who. It was created by the library and staff of Lincoln School in Thomson Township, typed by Hilda Tan, and written by both Hilda Tan and Mamie Saukko.
Members of the women's Margaret Silents basketball team are sitting on the front steps of the Charles Thompson Memorial Hall. The woman in the middle of the front row is holding a basketball labeled "Margaret Silents 1921." The team was sponsored by the Charles Thompson Memorial Hall deaf club. In the front row, from left to right, are Nina B. Wright, Alta (Neal) Henneman, and Rosie Plonshinski. In the middle row, from left to right, are Mary Werner, Ethel Doran, Betty Plonshinski, and Helen Franklin. In the back row, from left to right, are Evelyn Coyne, Edna M. Hansen, and coach Paul Senkbeil.
