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James M. McKelvy came to St. Cloud, Minnesota, from Pennsylvania in 1857. He was related to the Swisshelm family, and he boarded with the Garlingtons, who were also related to the Swisshelms. In 1863 he married Margaret Garlington. Their children were James E., Rosa, Jesse, Eva, Margaret, Mary, and Wilbur McKelvy served in Company, I. Seventh Minnesota Volunteers. He attained the rank of captain and was wounded in the Battle of Nashville. He was a lawyer by profession, and after the war he became a district judge in Stearns County. His son, James E. McKelvy, served in the Spanish-American War. His rank was captain, and he was a member of Company M, Thirteenth Minnesota Regiment. James McKelvy died in 1884.

Bruce Gerald Nelsen was born on March 22, 1935 near Hutchinson, Minnesota. He was raised in the area on a dairy farm. After graduation from high school at Hutchinson, Nelsen studied agriculture at the University of Minnesota and the University of Maryland. After serving in the U.S. Army from August 1954 to August 1956, Nelsen returned to Minnesota and attended the Staples Area Vocational School, where he studied machine shop. He was then employed by the 3M Company from 1967 to 1968.

In 1968, Nelsen became a machine shop instructor at the Staples Area Vocational School. After becoming a Minnesota state Representative, he served as the North Campus Supervisor, when the legislature was not in session.

Nelsen was elected to the Minnestoa state House of Representatives in 1974, 1978, 1980. He served as the Assistant Minority Leader of the Independent Republican House Caucus. The committees he has served on include: Agriculture, Appropriations, Rules and Legislative Administration, and Transportation. He was a Minnesota Representative to the Midwest Council of State Governments. In July 1980, he began a three year term on the Minnesota State Advisory Council for Vocational Education.

During his years as a State Representative, Nelsen paid special attention to the importance of education in Minnesota. During his last two terms, he felt that the state’s weakening economy was a major issue and worked for decreased spending and was for a balanced national budget.

In February 1982, Nelsen announced his intention to not seek reelection this year. His decision was based on a desire to spend more time with his family in Staples. He was then employed at McCourtney Plastics in Staples, Minnesota.

He and his wife Beverly have five children and reside in Staples, Minnesota.

Alvin Patton was born September 18, 1937 in Sauk Rapids, Minnesota. He attended the Northwest Technical Institute and served in the U.S. Army. Patton is a member of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Union Party. He was elected to the Minnesota House of Representatives for District 17A in 1972 and served until 1980. Patton served on various committees: Environmental/Natural Resources, Committee for Higher Education, and was Vice-chairman of the Governmental Operations.

Marvin C. Schumann was born on May 19, 1906 in Rice, Minnesota. He was raised in a family of eight on a rural farm. His father was a German immigrant, who came to the United States at age seven. After the completion of eighth grade, Marvin attended the School of Agriculture at the University of Minnesota. In 1944, he was appointed to fill a vacancy on the board of county commissioners where he served for ten years. Then in 1954, he decided to file for the office of Minnesota State Representative to which he was elected and served seven terms. He served in the Minnesota House from 1955 to 1962 for District 45, 1963 to 1966 for District 27, and 1967 to 1968 for District 51B. In 1939, he married Mildred E. Nelson, from Sauk Rapids, Minnesota. They had three children: Julie Fay, Nancy Louise, and Ivan Charles.

John Davis “J.D.” Sullivan was born in 1862 in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada. He was married to Elizabeth M. Schmidt in 1886, they had four children. J.D. served as a county attorney for Stearns County until his election to Minnesota District 45 in 1911. He served for twenty years in the Minnesota state senate, until 1931. John Sullivan died in 1933. Henry Holland Sullivan, the son of John D. Sullivan, was born in 1889. He married to Hazel J. Brown in 1913, until her death in 1841. By 1940, Henry was remarried to Ruth L. Henry was elected to the Minnesota state senate in 1935 and serve until 1955. Henry Sullivan died in 1959.

Romauld B. Thibault was born in 1918 in Garden, Michigan. He served in the U.S. Army during WWII. In 1945 he married Rachael V. Kramer, together they had two sons. During his life, he worked for the Great Northern Railroad and then later the Burlington Northern Railroads as a conductor and brakeman. He was an active member of the local labor lodges and the national labor unions who competed vigorously for the right to represent railroad workers in negotiations with the Railroad. He retired in 1980. While working, Thibault served as the local chairman of the O.R.C. & B (Order of Railway Conductors and Brakemen) from 1956 to 1980. He also served as the National Vice-president of the O.R.C. & B in 1958. He passed away in 2002.

Francis H. Voelker was born in Thorp, Wisconsin on January 5, 1931 to Gilbert A. and Josephine Voelker.

After earning a bachelor of arts degree from St. John's University in Collegeville, Minnesota, Fran served in the US Army. Upon discharge from the Army in 1955, Fran taught English and coached at Foley High School in Foley, Minnesota. In 1959, Fran left Foley High School and began his collegiate teaching career at St. Cloud State College (later University) in St. Cloud, Minnesota.

Fran taught English and Mass Communications at St. Cloud State until his retirement in 1991. He also served as the first president of the Inter-Faculty Organization (IFO) after collective bargaining was instituted in the state of Minnesota.

With wife Ludmila (Mil), Fran co-authored and edited three editions of the book Mass Media: Forces in Our Society, History and Legends of the Padrnos Family, and History of Big Birch Lake.

While a faculty member at St. Cloud State, Fran earned a master of science degree in 1959.

Fran married Mil Padrnos on December 27, 1954 at St. Hedwig's Catholic Church in Holdingford, Minnesota. They had five children: Mary Jo, Marjorie, Catherine, Thomas, and Paul.

Gene Wenstrom was born in Fergus Falls, Minnesota in 1946. He was a member of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party and served in the Minnesota House of Representatives from 1975 to 1978 for District 11A. He campaigned unsuccessfully for the 7th Congressional district, Minnesota in 1982. He has two children, Daniel and Tamara, with his wife LeAnn.

Campus Laboratory School staff member

Mark is a 1975 St. Cloud State graduate.

George Karvel was a real estate agent and faculty member at St. Cloud State University, who served as one of the founders of the Minnesota Chair in Real Estate program. Karvel served as the original head of the program between 1981 and 1986, after which that role was assumed by his colleague Steven Mooney. In addition to his work at SCSU, Karvel also regularly appeared as a guest on WCCO’s Sunday morning news broadcasts to offer advice about his profession, and also managed a personal advice column called “Karvel’s Corner,” where he provided responses to questions about economic and financial matters mailed in by his readers.

Masako Miywake Ryugo was one of six Japanese American students to attend St. Cloud State University during World War II. She arrived on campus in 1943 and graduated in 1944. She was released from the Tule Lake Internment Camp in northern California to complete her education at St. Cloud State.

Born in Portland, Oregon on December 5, 1921, Masako passed away on December 14, 2008. She married her husband Kay shortly after her 1944 graduation and they had five children together - Martha, David, James, Karen, and Thomas.

Doug Birk’s involvement with Cass county began around 1979, conducting field surveys and surface collections at Gull Lake in connection with wastewater treatment projects. Elden Johnson previously identified sites in the Gull lake area in the 1970s and Birk identified more sites from 1982 to 1984 with Northland Archaeological Services. Birk conducted surveys for sites that were disturbed by road construction, including a 1979 survey of areas around Brockway Lake. There currently are 301 known precontact or early contact (Dakota) Native American archaeological sites in Cass county. An additional 217 sites are located within the Chippewa National Forest, nearly all of which were occupied during the Woodland Period.

The modern-day Camp Ripley takes its name from an early frontier army post called Fort Ripley that operated from 1848 to 1878. This post was the result of a treaty with the Winnebago tribe. It was located on the west side of the Mississippi River, just below the mouth of the Nokasippi River.

Doug Birk first began surveys at Camp Ripley in 1986 with Kolleen Kralick and Jeff Tollefson, completing his final report in 1988. The surveys were authorized by the Corps of Engineers as part of a program to assist the Army National Guard in preparing a Historic Preservation Plan. Further surveys were conducted by other archaeologists during the years of 1990 to 1995 including Rebecca Otto and Virginia Gnabasik that cite Birk’s previous work at the camp.

Doug Birk’s investigations of mounds in Minnesota began in the 1970s but was renewed in the early 1980s when he and Elden Johnson became interested in new, non-destructive methods of studying mounds. Birk continued work on mounds throughout the 1990s and beyond with many other colleagues. Areas with mounds covered by this series include Cass, Morrison, LeSueur, Aitkin, Carlton, Koochiching, St. Louis, Itasca and Crow Wing Counties; Mississippi Headwaters; Pillager Gap; Pine River; Mille Lacs; Various lakes such as Gull, Leech, Cross, Norway and Rice; Also Rice Lake National Wildlife Refuge.

Information Services was created in 1959. Its mission was to disseminate information of generaml interest about St. Cloud State to students, faculty, staff, parents, alumni, and the interested public. Unit duties were expanded in 1997 to include publications and other external communication, such as marketing.

1959-7/1987: Information Services (1)

7/1987-9/1997: Public Relations and Publications (2)

9/1997-2011+: University Communications (3)

Heads of this unit include:

1959-8/1986: (Howard) Ray Rowland, Director (1)

8/1986-1/1987: Sue Mackert, Director (acting) (4)

1/1987-9/1996: Angelo Gentile, Director (5)

9/1996-2/1997: Marsha Shoemaker, Director (acting) (6)

2/1997-2/2000: E. Barry Wegener, Director of Marketing and Communications (7)

2000-2001: Greg Czerwinski, Director of Marketing and Communications (8)

2001-2003: Lisa Foss, Director of Marketing and Communications (interim) (9)

2003-2004: Lisa Foss, Director of Marketing and Communications (10)

2004-2005: Lisa Foss, Assistant Vice President for Marketing and Communication (11)

7/2005-2011+: Loren Boone, Assistant Vice President for Marketing and Communication (12)

St. Cloud chapter of Tau Kappa Epsilon (TKE) was founded in 1960 and is still active on campus today in 2022. The goal of this male social fraternity is "to aid college men in mental, moral, and social development." They are currently the longest standing fraternity at St. Cloud State.

The Saint Cloud branch of the American Association of University Women, A.A.U.W., was formed in 1922 with an original membership of thirty-one. It has been in continuous operation since then and now (1975) numbers slightly over 200 members.

The club is comprised of St. Cloud area women who have graduated from A.A.U.W. approved colleges and universities throughout the world.

Through it programs and activities the club has delved into countless fields during its 53 years. Here is a sampling of topics covered: The Role of Women as Makers of History; Is Palestine to be Restored to the Jew?; American Lyricists; The Subconscious; Modern Music and Art; Drama; New Science as Related; Portraits of Minnesota Pioneer Women; Law and Child; Education; International Relations; Portraits of Minnesota Pioneer Women; Law and Citizen. All these and many more have been researched and discussed by the club.

In December of 1922 the group started its first venture in raising money to establish an annual scholarship fund to assist deserving students. The fund has been a continuous project for the club.

In 1924, the organization began to form into special interest groups and committees with the first being; The Pre-School Group for Mothers of Elementary Age Children. Other groups soon followed: International Relations Group (October, 1926); The Music and Drama Group (October, 1928); The Literature and Writing Group (September, 1934); The Art Group (October, 1934); The Education Committee (1934); The Consumers Problems Group (September, 1936); The Status of Women Committee (1939); and, The Fellowship Committee. All these groups and committees research their particular area and make reports to the club as a whole.

In 1925, the St. Cloud branch joined the new State Organization and voted to follow its constitution. Miss Pape Quayle was delegate to the first state convention in St. Paul in 1925. In May 1929, the St. Cloud Club sent its first representative to the National Convention in New Orleans; Miss Ethel Graves.

The club, through the years, has also done work and raised money for charitable organizations and social welfare campaigns. Year after year, the club has worked and given generously to such things as the Red Cross, Easter Seals, CARE, SPAN, Save the Children Federation, Christmas Seals, and the like. Although National Headquarters urged the local clubs not to give as a whole, individual works and donations are still give.

The SCSU Survey began in 1980 by faculty member Steve Frank. He conducted surveys in conjunction with the Political Science classes he was teaching. The center grew and included other St. Cloud State faculty. The primary mission of SCSU Survey is to serve the academic community and various clients through its commitment to high quality survey research and to provide education and experientl opportunities to researchers and students.

The center conducts statewide surveys that focus on issues such as election races, currents events, and other important topics. It also conducts a yearly survey of St. Cloud State students as well as contract with entities outside of the university.

The American Association of University Professors began in 1915, to “advance academic freedom and shared governance, to define fundamental professional values and standards for higher education, and to ensure higher education’s contribution to the common good.” The Minnesota Chapter of the AAUP serves as a representation for faculty across the state.

The A.W.S. dates back to 1925 when Dean of Women, Beth Porter Garvey, organized the Women's Council to act as a medium between administration and the women of the college. The Women's Council joined with the Men's Council to form the Student Council during the 1931-1932 school year. In June 1932 a new organization, the Women's Self-Government Association (W.S.G.A.) was formed. Its purpose was to create a sense of unity and fellowship amongst women. The A.W.S. also promoted high standards of college life regarding studying, living quarters, dress, social activities, etc. They changed their name to "Associated Women Students" in 1947.  The A.W.S. is listed in the 1972-1973 student handbook as a student governing agency, but is no longer listed in the 1973-1974 student handbook.

The purpose of the Camera Kraft Club was to teach the fundamentals of photography and to develop an appreciation of nature and art. The first mention of the club was in the 1923 Talahi yearbook while the last mention was in the 1954 Talahi yearbook.

Chi Sigma Chi was an honorary fraternity for industrial arts majors and minors. The fraternity organized on campus in the winter of 1948. The purpose of the fraternity was to develop professional spirit, fellowship, and a better understanding of the opportunities and problems of industrial arts teachers in an industrial democracy. One of the notable activities the club sponsored was evening industrial hobby classes for adults. The last mention of Chi Sigma Chi was September 1978 in the Chronicle.

There are mentions of "Chi Sigma Chi" in the Chronicle prior to 1948, however the Chronicle notes this version of Chi Sigma Chi is "completely divorced" from its name sake.

The student-run Chronicle has been published continuously since 1924 at St. Cloud State.

Chairpersons:

1963-1970: Calvin Gower

1971-1976: John Massmann

1976-1982: David Overy

1982-1986: Richard Lewis

1986-1992: Edward Pluth

1992-1994; David Overy

1994-1997: Meredith Medler

1997-2001: Don Hofsommer

2002-2011: Peter Nayenga

2011-2018: Betsy Glade

2018-2020: Robert Galler

2020-: Maureen O'Brien (interim)

The SCSU Photo Club was a student social organization active from sometime in the 1970s into the 1990s. The organization's purpose was to further interest in photography among the students, faculty and alumni of the University. In addition, the organization provided educational opportunities to improve and support the photographic abilities of its members.

The Department of Teacher Developement was established in 1979 which combined the departments of Elementary Education (ELED), Secondary Education (SEED), and Student Teaching (EDT). Teacher Development prepares teachers who will create humane, culturally responsive and activity-centered learning environments, These environments serves the needs of all students in preparing informed productive, engaged citizens for a changing and diverse world.

The Women’s Center was established in late fall of 1989.

Directors:

Jane Olsen: 10/1989-6/2022
Rebecca Kotz :7/2022-6/2023 (interim)
Heather Brown: 7/2023-

1942 St. Cloud State graduate

LR&TS staff member

Retired SCSU faculty member

Communication Studies faculty member

Retired SCSU Music faculty member

St. Cloud State acting president from 1943 to 1947 as well as History faculty member.

Born on August 31, 1933, Kenneth Cox graduated from East Stroudsburg University in 1955 with a B.S. degree in health and physical education. He later received his Ed.D. in curriculum and instruction. Cox served in the U.S. military from 1955 to 1956. In 1956 Summer games in Melbourne, Australia, he was part of the U.S. Olympic wrestling team.

Cox coached wrestling for 25 years, four of which were spent at St. Cloud State. Ken Cox coached the SCSU wrestling team from 1963 through 1967. During his St. Cloud State career, Cox coached the Olympic-bound Hazewinkel twins, Dave and Jim, accompanying them to their 1964 Olympic Trial in New York City. Cox saw the completion of Halenbeck Hall in 1965 and hosted the NAIA championships there in 1966. Throughout his entire coaching career, Cox coached 16 NAIA All-Americans, three Olympians, eight national champions, and numerous NCAA All-Americans. He passed away on February 5, 2022 at the age of 88.

Andrew A. Brown was born in Norway in 1841. Brown served in the U.S. Civil War from 1861 to 1863, achieving the rank of Captain. He married his wife Christine and had five children: Anna, Fenna, Ida, Flora, Albert. Andrew served in the Minnesota state Senate for District 39 from 1879 to 1881. He and his family resided in Alexandria, Minnesota until 1909, when they moved to the State of Washington. Andrew died in 1912 and his wife in 1938.

Harry Sinclair Lewis, known to his friends as “Red,” was a prolific American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright. Main Street, published in 1920, is Lewis’ best known work.

Born in Sauk Centre, Minnesota on February 7, 1885, to Edwin and Emma Lewis, Lewis had two older brothers, Fred and Claude.

At Yale University where Lewis received a degree from in 1908, Lewis published in the Yale Literary Magazine, the Courant, and the Record. This began a long career of writing novels, plays, and short stories.

Lewis turned down the Pulitzer Prize in literature in 1926, but accepted the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1930.

Lewis was married twice: Grace from 1914 to 1925. They had a son, Wells, who was born in 1917. In 1944, Wells died in combat in France during World War II.

In 1928, Lewis married Dorothy Thompson, a well-known journalist. They had one son, Michael, who was born in 1930. They divorced in 1942. Lewis never remarried.

Lewis died in Rome, Italy on January 10, 1951. His cremated remains were interred in Sauk Centre, Minnesota.

Henry M. Harren was born in Albany, Minnesota in 1922. He attended the University of Idaho and St. John’s University in Collegeville, Minnesota, and then served in World War II. After his military service he was an editor and publisher in Albany, Minnesota. He served in the Minnesota state Senate from 1955-1961 and 1963-1969. During his years in office, he served on a number of Senate committee, among them being: Civil Administration and Metropolitan Affairs (chairman, 1969-1970); Elections and Reapportionment; Game and Fish; Labor; Rules and Legislative Expense; Finance; Public Welfare; and Agriculture. He also served on the Minnesota Outdoor Recreation Resource Commission (MORCC) and was appointed as its first chairman. Harren was married and had six children.