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Donate to the Libraries, using the Mail-In Form. Give through the NDSU Development Foundation website.This gift provides continuing enrichment for years to come and honor the person, family, or organization of your choosing.

 

 

 

Giesla L. Schilling Keller,a longtime employee at the NDSU Varsity Mart, has established the Udo Gerhard Keller zu Kellerrode Fund, with a major financial gift to the Germans from Russia Heritage collection.

 

Dr. Vern Freeh, a native of Harvey, ND and 1951 NDSU graduate, presented a donation of $6,500 for publication of the book, Couldn't Be Better: The Russian Farm Community Project, published by GRHC in 2000. Proceeds from this book is donated equally by Dr. Freeh to GRHC and the Russian Farm Community Project.

An anonymous donor presented a gift of $12,500 in December, 2000 and $7,500 in December, 2001 requesting that funds be used for a videotape documentary on the music traditions of the Germans from Russia.

 


International artist Ross Rudel was design consultant.

 

The estate of Matilda Schlenker Dockter of Streeter, ND, presented a gift to GRHC in memory of their mother who died in March, 2001, at the age of 105.

The Marie Rudel Portner Germans from Russia Endowment of $1.1 million dollars was established in May, 2000.

The endowment was established in honor of the ethnic heritage and family traditions and values represented by her parents Simon and Dorothea Weber Rudel.

Recent Donations to the Germans from Russia Heritage Collection

Mrs. Marianne K. Long
Yukon, OK
Financial Donation

Philip L. Westine
Texas
Graf and Buck family photos

Benjamin E. Suta
Utah
Los(z)ing family history

Cathy Stang
Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan anthology

Ramus Dirk
North Dakota
Dirk family history

Mary Ebach
North Dakota
Cemetery publication and family history

Julie Eszlinger
Minnesota
Eszlinger family history

Jim B. Gaede
California
Sixteen Singing Mennonite Men concert videotape

Francis Greene
England
Book on German-Russian persecution

Horst Gutsche
Alberta
Gutsche family history

Dwight L. Herr
California
Cassette tape oral interviews of Julius E. Herr, Wishek, ND

Olgerd I. Jankowsky
Germany
Volhynian German books

Colleen Zeiler
Texas
Vetter Family Reunion videotape and afgan textile

Alice Sitler Dyck
Washington
Dyck family history

Victor Goehring
California
Goehring family cookbook
Lodi history book

Jerry and Shirley Hust
Colorado
Klundt Hust family history

Tom and Toni Synder Keller
Keller and Synder family history

Bernadine Kempf
Missouri
Original homestead certificates of McIntosh County, ND, 1908, 1909

Cynthia Dawn Miller
Minnesota
Master's thesis on German-Russian attitudes

Prof. Dr. Winifred Morgenstern
Germany
Books on Germans from Russia

Roy Merkel
California
Schmitt/Merkel family history

Leona Woesner Neu
North Dakota
German and English hymnals

Father Eugen Reinhardt
Germany
Book on the German clergy in former Soviet Union

Stan Rall
California
Rall family history

Curt Renz
Iowa
Two volumes of International Newspaper Holdings in German Libraries

Debra Marquardt
Iowa
Autographed poetry book

Stan Rall
California
Wohl family history

Deborah Lee Rothery
Oregon
Kusler family history

Al Schock
South Dakota
Book on Schock brothers

Larry and LeAnne Schultz
Kansas
Children's book on the Mennonite Germans

Jacob Seibold
California
Historical German Bible

United Church of Christ
Wishek, North Dakota
German and English hymnals

United Methodist Church
Wishek, North Dakota
German and English hymnals

Ronald J. Vossler
Minnesota
CD of prairie humor

Marie Wolf Weigold
Wolf family history

John Weisgerber
Alberta
Weisgerber family history

Dr. William Wiest
Oregon
CD of Mennonite music