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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.

Born June 30, 1900 to George and Annie McAllister, Maybelle (Mabel) attended St. Cloud State from 1920 to 1922. She graduated in spring 1922. During her time at St. Cloud State, she was a resident of Lawrence Hall and a member of the Camera Kraft Club. After graduation, McAllister taught one year at Roseau and another year at Greenbush Public Schools in Minnesota. She married Gustav A. Kassube and raised three children. She died on September 25, 1990 at the age of 90 and buried in Peace Cemetery in Bertha, Minnesota.

Mark is a 1975 St. Cloud State graduate.

World traveler William Marcellous Lindgren was born on September 26, 1922 to Roy and Rudy (Peterson) Lindgren in Braham, Minnesota, a small town just north of Cambridge on Highway 65. Lindgren was an only child.

In 1940, Lindgren entered the University of Minnesota, graduating in 1944 with a BA in Political Science and Economics. In early 1945, Lindgren joined the Royal Canadian Armed Forces and discharged in September 1945. After he was discharged, Lindgren enrolled at the University of British Columbia. He received his master's degree in Political Science and Economics in 1946.

With a connection through his University of Minnesota Sigma Nu fraternity, he was hired by the California Texas Oil Company (Caltex) in early 1947 and would arrive in Shanghai, China, in July of that year for training. In 1961, Lindgren left Caltex and was hired by Pfizer Pharmaceutical Company, then sent to Manila, Philippines. He resigned from Pfizer in 1964 and returned to the United States. Upon his return, Lindgren was hired in 1965 by St. Cloud State University to teach. In 1968, Lindgren resigned from St. Cloud State and was hired by R&D Products and then assigned to Hong Kong.

Lindgren resigned from R&D Products in 1974 and retired to Portugal, yet returned to Minnesota later that year permanently. In 1975, Lindgren was hired again by St. Cloud State to teach and held that position until he retired in 1988. After his 1988 retirement, Lindgren continued to travel extensively. In the spring of 1993, Lindgren learned he had terminal cancer and passed away on October 13, 1993 in Cambridge, Minnesota.

As an employee of Caltex, Lindgren began traveling across Asia in 1947. By the time he returned to Minnesota in 1966 after his stint with Caltex and Pfizer, he had been assigned to China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, India, Pakistan, Vietnam, Philippines, Singapore, and Japan. Whenever possible he would visit other nearby locales, including Macao, Thailand, Cambodia, Kashmir, Nepal, Tibet, and Afghanistan. Given the time frame and locations, Lindgren found himself in the middle of many events that changed the geo-political landscape of the 20th century, among them the establishment of Communist China, its invasion of Tibet and the Dalai Lama’s flight to India, the French-Viet Minh conflict and subsequent Vietnam War, and Cold War movements among the United States, the Soviet Union, and China in the border regions of Central Asia. This also made Lindgren a valuable source of information for American intelligence agencies, which often took advantage of his proximity and ability to move relatively freely in these areas by debriefing him for information.

Lindgren never married and had no children.

Andrew G. Lindgren was born on April 30, 1876 in Dalarna, Sweden. He immigrated to the United States in 1881 and settled in Atwater, Minnesota.

Lindgren would later attend the State Normal School at St. Cloud (which later renamed St. Cloud State University) and graduated in 1901 and 1908.

Lindgren married Lula Louise Heinig on August 22, 1910. They had no children. Lulu passed away on September 27, 1941.

Lindgren, who also lived in Silver Creek and Monticello, Minnesota, was a superintendent of schools and a teacher. Lindgren also farmed and was involved in the Red Cross and Boy Scouts.

Lindgren passed away in San Francisco, California on April 10, 1951 and is buried in the Greenlawn Cemetery in Verndale, Minnesota.

The Library Tri-D Club was an organization of all the members of the library staff. Tri-D stands for "Dewey Decimal Doers." The object of the club was to further the interests of the library, to establish a closer relationship between staff members, and to learn all they could about school librarians and books.

Virginia was the daughter of Claude Lewis, who was the older brother of author Sinclair Lewis.

Judy was the wife of Freeman Lewis, son of Claude Lewis. Claude was the older brother of author Sinclair Lewis.

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.

Freeman was the son of Claude Lewis, who was the older brother of author Sinclair Lewis.

Fred Lewis was the oldest of three children of Edwin and Emma Kermott Lewis and was born on October 1, 1875. Fred died on January 15, 1946.

Learning Resources and Technology Services was a single entity under the leadership of a single dean until July 2011. It then split into two separate units - Learning Resources Services (LRS), which is the library, and Information Technology Services (ITS). ITS is headed by a Chief Information Officer.

Isabel Lawrence was born in 1853 in Jay, Maine. She graduated from the Oswego Normal School in Oswego, New York, in 1872.

Before coming to St. Cloud State, Lawrence taught fourth grade in Portland, Maine (1870-1871), was director of training at the Oswego Normal School in New York (1874-1876), assistant superintendent in Yonkers, New York (1877-1878), and then director of training at the Whitewater Normal School in Whitewater, Wisconsin.

Lawrence came to St. Cloud State in 1879 and quickly became a beloved and influential faculty member. The first Lawrence Hall (1885) and the second Lawrence Hall (1905), both originally built as women's dormitories, were named in her honor. From late 1914 to summer 1916, she was acting president while Waite Shoemaker was on leave due to illness. Lawrence was St. Cloud State's first female president, acting or permanent.

She retired in 1921 after serving St. Cloud State as director of the training school for over 40 years. She received numerous letters from grateful former students, and the Alumni Association raised funds to pay for her medical care and retirement during the Great Depression. She passed away on March 21, 1936 and is buried in St. Cloud's North Star Cemetery.

KVSC is St. Cloud State University's campus radio station that began broadcasting May 10, 1967. The station was managed by Radio and Television Guild students under the supervision of Mass Communications faculty. In 1982, KVSC increased power to comply with FCC regulations and expand the station's coverage area beyond the city of St. Cloud. The power increase neccessitated a frequency change in February 1983 from 88.5 to 88.1 to avoid interference with a Twin Cities station. The guild was dissolved in 1986 and Kevin Ridley was hired as the station's first full time employee. His role was to provide a professional environment and continuity for the station. Ridley resigned in the summer of 1992 and he was replaced soon after by alum Jo McMullen, who remains as of June 2015.

A faculty general manager was always in charge of the radio station and continued when full-time staff was hired. These faculty were given release time to help manage the station. This reporting structure continued until July 2014 when the station manager no longer reported to a faculty member and instead to the Assistant Vice President for Marketing and Communications.

In 1980, KVSC began the trivia contest weekend that has become the station's most popular and largest programming event. Created intially to give St. Cloud State dormitory students something to do over a long weekend, the trivia contest was based on the same type of event held in Stevens Point, Wisconsin, every year.

John T. Kosloske was born in December 1907, in Sauk Rapids, Minnesota. He was raised in a family of nine children. His parents came to Chicago, Illinois from Prussia, Germany in 1884 and later moved to Sauk Rapids. He started out in politics in 1928 as a Justice of the Peace, a position which he held until he was elected to the Minnesota State legislature for the 1949, 1951, and 1953 sessions. In 1936 he married Marcela Brunz of Leroy, Minnesota. He had stepchildren, Dorothy and William. In 1965 he was elected mayor of Sauk Rapids where he served from 1966 to 1967. He passed away on February 4, 2004.

Reverend David Litchard Kiehle was born on February 7, 1837, in Dansville, New York. Kiehle spent much his early life and education in New York. Here he graduated from the Albany State Normal School in 1856, He later graduated from Hamilton University in 1864 and the Union Theological Seminary in 1865. At the end of his studies, Kiehle relocated to Minnesota where he served as a pastor in Preston. He married Mary Gilman on July 16, 1863, raised they four children together: Ada, Louise, Frederick, and Florence.

Following Kiehle’s relocation to Minnesota, he began an active role in reforming the state’s educational system. Between 1869 and 1902, Kiehle served in a variety of roles as an educator, including the county superintendent of schools in Fillmore County, St. Cloud State’s second president (1875-1881), Minnesota state superintendent of public instruction, and as the Professor of Pedagogy at the University of Minnesota, among other positions. In each of these positions, he introduced reforms to existing educational systems, including developing summer training schools for elementary teachers, spearheading the establishment of the University of Minnesota’s School of Agriculture at Crookston, and providing the first graduate-level education for teachers in Minnesota. Likewise, Kiehle also wrote extensively and published several pieces of scholarly literature concerning public education, perhaps most notably including his book History of Education in Minnesota (1903).

Kiehle passed away in Portland, Oregon on April 5, 1918, at the age of 81 and buried in River View Cemetery there.

In honor of his work in Minnesota, St. Cloud State named its (now former) library after Kiehle in 1952. On today’s University of Minnesota – Crookston campus, the Kiehle Building serves as home to many campus units.

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.

The Gamma Pi chapter of honorary teachers fraternity Kappa Delta Pi was established at St. Cloud State on April 23, 1932. [Chronicle, April 22, 1932, p. 1]

Kaleidoscope presents poetry, essays, short stories, and photographs which have a multicultural theme and are created by students, faculty, and staff at St. Cloud State University.

The first issue of Kaleidoscope was published in 1990. In the staff notes of the first issue it states:

The staff of the Write Place is pleased to present Kaleidoscope, a collection of student essays, short stories, and poems which highlight and celebrate multicultural experiences. Writing included in this collection has been authored by undergraduate and graduate students from African-American, African, American Indian, Palestinian Arab, Japanese, Chinese, South Korean, and rural Minnesota cultures. We hope that reading these student contributions will foster communication among cultural groups within the university, help students to understand their own experiences and those of others, and enrich all of our experiences. We also hope that faculty will share this collection with their students in the classroom.

The website has many past issues available, beginning with Volume 1 from 1990, up to Volume 8 from the 1997-1998. The magazine first appeared online in 1996. All issues will eventually be available both online and in print format.

Listed are year, editor, then faculty advisor:

1990; Vol. 1; Janice Anderson, Laurie Bertamus, Brenda Frye, Heidi Slettedahl; Dr. Judith Kilborn

Spring 1991, Vol. 2; Ron L. Heck and Lisa J. Helmin; Dr. Judith Kilborn

Spring 1992, Vol. 3; Dr. Judith Kilborn, Dr. Steve Klepetar, and Robert Gardner ;Dr. Judith Kilborn

Spring 1993, Vol. 4; Michelle Bender, Robert Gardner, Dr. Judith Kilborn, Dr. Steve Klepetar, Dr. Rex Veeder; Dr. Judith Kilborn

Spring 1994, Vol. 5; Sam Anderson-McCoy, Libbie Brunsvold, Angela Henderson, etc.; Dr. Judith Kilborn

1995, Vol. 6; Bob Inkster, Judith Kilborn, Kelly A. Larson, and Rex Veeder; Rex Veeder

1996, Vol. 7; Heidi Gomez, Jessica Lourey, Judith M. Kilborn; Dr. Judith M. Kilborn

2006; Petra Neumueller; Dr. Carol Mohrbacher

2009; Nick Seifert; Dr. Carol Mohrbacher

Retired SCSU faculty member

In 1843, William Henry Jackson was born in Keeseville, New York. As a child, Jackson became interested in photography. After service in the Civil War, he opened a studio in Omaha, Nebraska. Here, Jackson photographed local Native American tribes and scenes from the Union Pacific Railroad. From 1870 to 1878, Jackson was the official photographer for the United States Geological and Geological Survey of the Territories. Photographs taken by Jackson during this time showed the remarkable surroundings of the United States’ American West, including Yellowstone, the Grand Tetons, and the cliff dwellings of Colorado (Mesa Verde National Park). When the survey was finished, he opened a studio in Denver, CO, in 1879.

In 1897, William A. Livingstone, Jr., one of the founders of the Detroit Photographic Company, persuaded the William Henry Jackson to join the firm. By doing so, the Detroit Photographic Company added the thousands of negatives produced by Jackson to the company’s image inventory. Jackson's photographs included city and town views, images of important buildings, scenes along railroad lines, and views of hotels and resorts from all over the world, including North and South America and Europe.

In the 1890s, the Detroit Photographic Company purchased the rights to use the Swiss "Photochrom" process of converting black-and-white photographs into color images, printing them by photolithography. This process allowed large scale production of color postcards, albums, and photographic prints for sale to the general American public, including those images taken by Jackson.

As seen in the St. Cloud State 1970 Report of the Committee on International Education, a push arose in the early 1970s to define St. Cloud State’s role and future in international education. From this purpose, the Denmark and England programs started in September 1973 and offered students the opportunity to study abroad. Other study abroad programs include Japan, Poland, Russia, and Spain. By 1987, the Denmark and England programs were the largest of the international programs offered. Both of these programs were open to general students, unlike the smaller French and German programs. Besides study abroad, which also included the exchange of faculty, International Studies provided academic and community support for foreign students and fostered growth in global relations by assisting with partnerships between SCSU and other international institutions.

Directors/Vice Presidents:

Robert Frost: 1974-7/1983 (Director)

Don Sikkink: 7/1983-1984, acting (Director)

Joseph Navari: 8/1984-11/1986 (Director)

Owen Hagen: 11/1986-7/1987, acting (Director)

Carolyn North: 10/1987-4/1990 (Director)

Barb Grachek: 1990-1992, acting (Director)

Roland Fischer: 1992-1998 (Director)

Dick Andzenge: 1998/99, interim (Assistant to the Vice President for Academic Affairs/International Studies)

Chunsheng Zhang: 1999-2006 (Assistant/Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs/International Studies)

Margaret Vos: 2006-2008, interim (Associate Vice President for International Studies)

Ann Radwan: 2008-9/2013 (Associate Vice President for International Affairs)

Margaret Vos: 9/2013-6/2014, interim (Associate Vice President for International Affairs)

Thy Yang: 7/2014-9/2015 (Associate Vice President for International Affairs)

Shahzad Ahmad, 9/2015-2017+ (Associate Vice President for International Affairs)

Names:

The first time that International Studies/Program appeared in the campus directory was in 1974/75. Bob Frost, the first director of International Studies, first appeared in the 1972/73 directory as director of Public Service Careers and Program Development.

1974/75-1976/77: International Studies and Program Development

1977/78-1983/84: International Studies

1984/85-2017+: Center for International Studies

Instructional Technologies and Infrastructure Services was part of Learning Resources and Technology Services.

This office was established by St. Cloud State president George Selke in 1938.

Its main task has been to gather statistics on various functions of the university, including enrollment, credit hours, faculty/student ratios, salaries, faculty, and research, all to help administrative decision-making. At various times, this office was in charge coordinating external grants.

1938-1967?: Bureau of Research

1967-1969?: Bureau of Institutional Research

1969?-1979: Office of Institutional Research

1979-1981: Office of Institutional Studies and Research

1981-1983: Office of Institutional Studies and Sponsored Research

1983-1997: Office of Institutional Studies

1997-2002: Office of Institutional Research and Planning

2002-2005?: SUSPENDED

2005: Office of Institutional Research and Planning

2005-2010+: Office of Institutional Effectiveness

Heads of this unit include:

1938-1951?: E.M. Paulu

1951?-1964?: Marvin Holmgren

1964?-1979: Paul Ingwell

1979-1983: Lora Robinson

1983-1997?: Tom Stein

1997?-2002: Mary Soroko

2002-2005: SUSPENDED

2005: Guihua Li

2005-2009: Lisa Foss (interim)

2009-2010+: Lisa Foss

Using only records available from Archives, this history is likely incomplete.

On January 16, 1963, the Library Science and Audio-Visual department in the School of Education was established by the St. Cloud State University Faculty Senate. The new department began offering courses in the fall of the 1963/64 academic year.

In a 1971 report, St. Cloud State President George Budd, the academic dean, and the division chairmen decided in the 1957/58 academic year that “[a]ll materials (print & nonprint – Audio &Video) and the companion equipment be selected, acquired, processed, serviced, and inventoried by the Bureau of Learning Resources Services [in 1958 called Instructional Services]. It was intended that all materials and equipment…used in direct support of the curriculum of the college [St. Cloud State] be included in this service.” Budd also stated, “Out of this concern for total materials grew the Department of Library and Audiovisual Education as a department of the School of Education.” (1) In a 1970 press release, the Library Science and Audiovisual Education department was described as “the instructional arm of the area [Learning Resources]” in the School of Education.” (2)

Luther Brown, who was appointed as Associate Professor of Education in Audio-Visual education at St. Cloud State University in 1957 (3), became the new department’s acting chairman (4). In addition to his duties as acting chairman, Brown was the Director of Instructional Resources since July 1, 1958 (5). At that time, Instructional Resources consisted of the library, the campus laboratory school library, and an audio-visual service. In 1970, Brown became the dean of Learning Resources, serving until 1977. (6)

The dean of Learning Resources and Technology Services has served as chair of the department including John Berling (1977-1997) and Kristi Tornquist (1997–2011). In July 2011, CIM moved administratively to the new School of Education.

In 1983, what had been known as the Center for Library and Audiovisual Education (CLAVE) changed its name to Center for Information Media (CIM). (7)

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)

Born in St. Cloud, Minnesota to Ralph and Melania Hinkemeyer on October 18, 1940, Michael Thomas Hinkemeyer grew up on a farm near South Haven, Minnesota, just south of St. Cloud.

Upon graduation from St. Cloud’s Cathedral high school in 1958, Hinkemeyer attended, and later graduated from St. John’s University in nearby Collegeville, Minnesota with a bachelor of arts in History in 1962.

After graduation from St. John’s University in 1962, Hinkemeyer was commissioned as a lieutenant in the ROTC and was stationed mostly in Europe for the next two years. When Hinkemeyer was discharged, he worked as a supervisor at the Montgomery Ward Mail Order Company and saved money to attend graduate school at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.

Hinkemeyer graduated from Northwestern University in 1966 with a master of arts degree and landed a job teaching high school in Long Island, New York. Hinkemeyer soon returned to Northwestern, this time to earn his Ph.D. He completed his degree in late 1970. While at Northwestern, Hinkemeyer taught at St. Mary’s College in Notre Dame, Indiana.

Soon after graduating with his Ph.D., Hinkemeyer took a position at Queens College in New York and taught Intellectual History, Social Science Research, and Principles of Education. While teaching, Hinkemeyer first book was published – it was entitled The Dark Below.

In 1976, Hinkemeyer was laid off from Queens College and then began his career as a full-time author.

In August 1967, Hinkemeyer married Arlene Dingilian in Cincinnati, Ohio. They had two children, Ellen Lara (born in 1970) and Jonathan Edward (born in 1973).

Hinkemeyer’s books, including those written as Vanessa Royall and Jan Lara:

The Dark Below (1974)

Summer Solstice (1976)

The Fields of Eden (1977)

The Creator (1978)

Flames of Desire (1978) [as Vanessa Royall]

Come Faith, Come Fire (1979) [as Vanessa Royall]

Sea Cliff (1979) [Re-issue of The Dark Below]

Firebrand’s Woman (1980) [as Vanessa Royall]

The Harbinger (1980) [also known as Dark Angel Pass By]

Lilac Night: A Novel of Revenge (1981)

Wild Wind Westward (1982) [as Vanessa Royall]

Seize the Dawn (1983) [as Vanessa Royall]

A Time to Reap: An Emil Whippletree Mystery (1984)

The Passionate and the Proud (1984) [as Vanessa Royall]

Fourth Down, Death (1985)

Fires of Delight (1986) [as Vanessa Royall]

Limbo (1988) [as Jan Lara]

The Order of the Arrow (1990)

Soulcatchers (1990)

Hill was a local photographer who purchased the Hill photography studio from his father in 1883. He married Inez Moore in 1883 and had one child in 1884 - St. Cloud State faculty member Helen Hill.

William Heuer was born in 1905 in Bertha, Minnesota. William Heuer married Selma Rosenberg and had eight children. Besides being a livestock farmer and bookkeeper, Heuer participated on many boards including the Town Board, School Board, PMA Board, and Co-op Board. Heuer was the Minnesota state Senator for District 54 from 1954 to 1966. Heuer died in 1975.

Sue E. Henrikson (Peterson) attended St. Cloud Teachers College 1953-1957. During her time on campus she participated in a multitude of clubs and activities. She was elected Publication Board Representative (1953), Secretary for Religion in Life Week (1954), nominated for Homecoming Queen (1954), and nominated secretary for Associated Women Students (1955). Hendrikson was a member of the Choral Club and Minerva Society. She attended many dances, socials, and theatrical performances during her time at St. Cloud. She married Tom Peterson whom attended St. Cloud and was a member of the Al Sirat Fraternity.

Ralph Heimdahl of Willmar, Minnesota, was born on March 22, 1909. After two years of study, Heimdahl graduated from the St. Cloud State Teacher’s College in 1930 where he studied art, played multiple sports including football and basketball, and participated in a wide variety of campus activities. After graduation, he was the principal at Miltona during the 1930/1931 school year, and he also taught at the State School for the Deaf at Faribault. He also took classes at the Minneapolis School of Art.

In 1937, Heimdahl entered a national competition that Walt Disney held to find artists. Heimdahl drew sketches of Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck and was hired. He moved to California to work at the Walt Disney Studios' animation department. There he met his future wife Esther, who was also a Disney employee. They married in 1938.

While at Disney, Heimdahl worked on classic feature length animated films such as Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937), Fantasia (1940), Pinocchio (1940), Dumbo (1941), and Bambi (1942). During the Disney studio strike in 1941, Heimdahl left Disney and moved to a farm in Brookfield, Vermont, where he lived for a year hoping to draw and sell his own cartoons. By the winter of 1942-1943, Heimdahl was working as a mechanical engineer for Hardinge in Elmira, New York. In the mid-1940s, Heimdahl was ultimately drawn back to California where he worked as a mechanical engineer in the city of Alhambra in suburban Los Angeles.

In 1946, Heimdahl joined the Western Publishing Co. where he drew comic books. In October 1947, Heimdahl began drawing the Bugs Bunny Sunday comic strip for Warner Bros. and the Newspaper Enterprises Association (NEA). He drew the new Bugs Bunny daily strip from its inception in November 1948. Heimdahl drew both the daily and Sunday strips until the fall of 1978. At one point, the Bugs Bunny comic strip appeared in over 450 newspapers worldwide.

Additionally, Heimdahl created the British version of the “Yogi Bear” comic in the 1960s which was based on the Hanna-Barbera character of the same name. Another hobby of Heimdahl’s was filmmaking. He and his daughter Martha won the Bolex Silver Medallion award in 1962 for a 16mm film entitled “Autumn Madness.”

Heimdahl died on November 12, 1981 at the age of 72. He was a longtime resident of Arcadia, California in suburban Los Angeles where he and his wife, Esther, had three daughters - LaVerne, Linda, and Martha.

Jon Hassler was born in Minneapolis on March 30, 1933 and grew up in Staples and Plainview, Minnesota. After graduation from high school in Plainview, Hassler attended St. John's University in Collegeville, Minnesota. He graduated in 1955 with a bachelor of arts in English. While teaching high school English in Minnesota, Hassler earned a master of arts degree from the University of North Dakota in 1960. In 1965, Hassler began his college teaching career at Bemidji State University and would later teach at Brainerd Community College in Minnesota, and finally at St. John's University.

In 1980, Hassler was appointed writer-in-residence at St. John's University, serving in that role until his retirement in 1997. He died in St. Louis Park, MN, on March 20, 2008. He was survived by his wife Gretchen and his three children from his first marriage.

Hassler published his first book, Staggerford, in 1977. He continued writing for almost the next 30 years - his final book was The New Woman, which was published in 2005. Other publications include:

Four Miles to Pinecone (1977)

Simon's Night (1979)

Jemmy (1980)

The Love Hunter (1981)

A Green Journey (1985)

Grand Opening (1987)

North of Hope (1990)

Dear James (1993)

The Dean's List (1998)

My Staggerford Journal (1999)

Keepsakes and Other Stories (2000)

Rufus at the Door and Other Stories (2000)

Good People... from an Author's Life (2001)

The Staggerford Flood (2002)

The Staggerford Murders (2004)

Stories Teachers Tell (2004)

The New Woman (2005)

Hassler passed away on March 20, 2008 and buried at Lakewood Cemetery in Minneapolis. He was survived by his third wife, Gretchen, as well as children Michael, Elizabeth, and David.

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.

SCSU faculty member

Harry H. Goehring was born to George and Elizabeth (Melius) Goehring in Loyal, Wisconsin, ca. 1907. He graduated from Loyal High School in Clark County, Wisconsin in 1925. He received a bachelor's degree from the Wisconsin State University (1929), master's degree from the University of Wisconsin (1932), and his Ph.D. from the University of North Dakota (1955).

Goehring joined the faculty at St. Cloud State in 1946, teaching ornithology and zoology. He would later teach in Biology and retired in 1971. He is best known studying bats thta lived in a Mississippi River sewer near campus and was nicknamed St. Cloud State's "Batman". In addition, Goehring developed a biology course for prospective elementary teachers. Goehring’s personal research included the discovery of two rare rhino mice in St. Cloud as well as a bat that survived sub-zero temperatures lower than had been previously believed.

Goehring married Thelma Keefer and they had three daughters - Donna, Dixie, and Dawn. Goehring passed away on April 15, 1997 in Concord, New Hampshire, at the age of 89.

Retired SCSU faculty member

Hubert Irey Gibson was born in Mason, Illinois, on December 21, 1906, the eldest of seven children.

As a child, Hubert enjoyed writing, dreaming one day to become an author. Not sure that he could make a living solely as an author, he eventually decided to be a lawyer who was a writer. In 1928, Hubert moved to Chicago to attend law school. While in school, he found employment as a law clerk. Unfortunately, as the Great Depression descended upon the country, Hubert found himself with a growing family and no job.

While Hubert’s wife, the former Frances Lauk, found steady work as a stenographer and typist, Hubert was unable to land employment. Frances suggested that Hubert gain skills that were in demand, such as typing and shorthand. He listened – Hubert attended night classes at a business college and soon acquired those skills.

Those newly learned secretarial skills lead Hubert to his job with Sinclair and Lloyd Lewis in the fall of 1933. Chicago Daily News drama critic Lloyd Lewis, who was reported at the time to be writing a play with a famous author, gave Hubert a job as secretary. Hubert then lived temporarily with Sinclair Lewis at the Sherry Hotel in Chicago, preparing draft after draft of The Jayhawker (which was then called “The Skedaddler” or “The Glory Hole”). While transcribing the manuscripts for Sinclair and Lloyd Lewis, Hubert was often called upon to act out many sequences in the play.

After his employment with Sinclair and Lloyd Lewis ended, Hubert was hired by Firestone Rubber Company in Akron, Ohio, as personal secretary to Harvey Firestone, Sr., and his son
Harvey Firestone, Jr. He also served with the Firestone chairman John W. Thomas and executive vice-president J. E. Trainer. Hubert eventually became manager of Plant 1 in Akron. In 1954, Hubert became general manager of Firestone’s Guided Missile Division in South Gate, California.

In 1966, Hubert retired to Arkansas. Frances died in 1970, while he passed away on April 16, 1996. They are both buried in Akron, Ohio.

Hubert and Frances married in 1929 and had three children: Doris, Barbara, and David.

Retired SCSU faculty member