Education
The Institute has collected and preserved an impressive collection of papers and records relating to education in the Red River Valley and the state of North Dakota.  The papers and records cover closed schools and colleges as well as those of educators.  The Institute continues to solicit and is interested in collecting records relating to education in North Dakota.

Education

Amenia School District No. 43 (Cass County, N.D.) Records, 1911-1936 (Mss 101)
Documents the administration of a rural school district in Cass County, N.D. from 1911 to 1936.

Carrie Busby Papers, 1913-1957 (Mss 288)
Linton, N.D. native who taught schools in Emmons, Nelson, Kidder and Richland counties of N.D.

Cass County, ND Superindent of Schools Records, 1905-1963 (Mss 89)
Officials forms submitted by the local school districts.

Emerson H. Smith Parent-Teacher Association (Fargo, N.D.) Records, 1922-1957 (Mss 268)
This quite complete set of records documents the activities of the P.T.A. and school, for an elementary school on the south side of Fargo, N.D.

Fargo College Collection, 1900-1922, 1960s (Mss 153)
The collection comes from part of the Frederick E. Stratton Papers.  Fargo College was a Congregational College founded in 1887 and closed in 1922.

Fargo (N.D.). Public Schools, 1874-1980 (Mss 263)
Official records of the Fargo school district to include board minutes, financial records, student records, and information on individual schools.

Fargo Retired Teachers Association Records, 1955-1983 (Mss 95)
Founded in 1955 as the Fargo Retired Teachers Club, a social club for women teachers who retired from the Fargo school system.

Ernest R. Groves Papers, 1917-1962 (Mss 169)
Groves and his wife, Gladys Hoagland, were pioneer University of North Carolina educators in the areas of sex and marriage, and were writers on the American family.

John G. Halland Papers, 1897-1919 (Mss 353)
Halland, a Norwegian immigrant, was the North Dakota Superintendent of Instruction from 1896 to 1900 and a North Dakota State University history professor from 1902 to 1910.

Lobben Sisters Papers, 1923-1962 (Mss 18)
The Lobben sisters were three Fargo residents who all taught in the Fargo school systems.  Clara Lobben was the first principal at Ben Franklin School.

North Central Educational Television Association Records, 1963-1966 (Mss 137)
Incorporated in 1959, and owner and operator of KFME public television station in Fargo which began broadcasting in January 1964.

North Dakota School of Religion Records, 1921-1977 (Mss 46)
School located in Fargo providing non-sectarian religious education and eventually absorbed into the NDSU Department of Religion under the supervision of a Professor of Religion.

Pierce County, ND, Scandia School District #22 Records, 1912-1956 (Mss 65)
Small, rural school in Pierce County composed of German-Russian and Norwegian-American students that was eventually absorbed into the Rugby School System in 1970.

Frederick E. Stratton Papers, 1872-1920 (Mss 31)
Educator in Iowa, Minnesota and Fargo College.

Tri-College University Records, 1961-1978 (Mss 154)
Incorporated in 1970 as a cooperative educational arrangement between North Dakota State University, Concordia College and Moorhead State University.

William Wemett Papers, 1909-1962 (Mss 449)
A New York native who became Valley City State College history professor from 1910 to 1954 after a brief high school teaching career.
 

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