- Kaleidoscope 2016.pdf
- Born-digital copy
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- Dimensions: 7.9 x 23 cm
- Physical Format: Black-and-white photograph
- Local Identifier: St. Cloud State Oral Histories. Lydia Olander
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- Dimensions: 2.1 x 3.2 cm
- Physical Format: Slide (photographs)
- Local Identifier: Papers of Max Partch. Box 2, sub-box 6, slide 681
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- Dimensions: 2.1 x 3.2 cm
- Physical Format: Slide (photographs)
- Local Identifier: Papers of Max Partch. Box 2, sub-box 6, slide 897
This collection contains the records of Aero Club. Included in the collection are three club scrapbooks, photographs of club activities, monthly newsletters published by Aero Club, one meeting minutes book, Aero Club's Constitution and By-Laws, newspaper clippings, and membership lists.
Sans titreThis collection contains the records of the Avon Literary Society. Included is one meeting minutes book and one of the society's programs.
Sans titreThe collection contains biographical information gathered by Ed Pluth regarding the various members of the subject’s family. The main attraction to this collection is the “The Girl Graduate” scrapbook which was includes countless photos and artifacts of Maurine Bailey’s life on St. Cloud State from June 1921 to fall 1922. Materials included in the book are Lawrence Hall dormitory regulations, State Teachers College picture booklet, personal messages from dormmates, many regarding Bailey as ‘Sub’, Bailey’s class schedules, Normal School Library manual, fall 1922 class schedule, and 1921 commencement exercises. In addtion, the scrapbook contains marriage announcements from friends, activity tickets, and calling cards of Lawrence Hall girls. This collection provides a wide range of interests to perspective scholars and researchers alike when looking at college life and experience in the early 1920s.
Sans titreThis collection contains the records of the Camera Kraft Club. Included is one book of meeting minutes, one photo album, and one club yearbook.
Sans titreThis collection contains the records of the Chi Sigma Chi. Included is two books of financial records, one meeting minutes book, photographs, and membership cards.
Sans titreThis collection contains the records of the Normal Athletic Club. Included is one meeting minutes book.
Sans titre10 monthly issues of the Normal School Recorder were published by students between 1916 and 1918.
The Normal School Recorder was a mix of a traditional newspaper and journal. Most of each issue was devoted to journal articles that were written by St. Cloud State students. Articles focused a great deal on campus; students wrote about family members, travel, athletics, student literary clubs, arrival and departure of faculty, and experience with others or events on campus. The publication often reported on the whereabouts and happenings of recent graduates. Especially fascinating were the stories about World War I, many documenting what was happening on campus, as well as the experiences of students and alums who were serving as soldiers.
All issues are available online. To see online, click on each issue in the finding aid and go to link in the Scope and Content Note. The issues can be found at https://repository.stcloudstate.edu/noscre.
Sans titreThis collection contains literary and artistic submission by St. Cloud State students from 1953 to 1954. Poems and short stories written by students were published.
Three issues of Nuance were published.
Records are located at 29D.4a.
Sans titreThis collection contains the records of the Philomathian Society. Included is one meeting minutes book.
Sans titreThis collection contains the records of the Senior Model Debating Society. Included is one meeting minutes book.
Sans titreThis collection contains the records of Sigma Gamma Phi. Included is one meeting minutes book and membership lists.
Sans titreThis collection contains the records of St. Cloud Normal Literary Society. Included in the collection are: one book of financial statements, and six books of minutes. Most of the minutes detail new members, elected postiions, resignations, and club program outlines. The programs often included speeches, recitations, debates, solo performances, and readings.
Sans titreThis collection contains the records of the Waverly Literary Society. Included here are three books of the society's finances.
Sans titreThis collection contains the records of the Associated Women Students (A.W.S.). Included is one meeting minutes book, the club's constitution, yearly handbooks, scrapbooks, photos and clippings, and their history.
Sans titreDating from 1956 to 2005, Atwood Memorial Center records consists of seven boxes that contain documents produced before the establishment and then the operation of the Atwood Memorial Center. The materials document the planning and fundraising for Atwood, the financial records, Atwood councils and advisory boards and various departments within Atwood.
Series 1: Fundraising, Construction and Phase II, 1956-1973
This series covers the initial planning and construction of Atwood, including the 1972 Phase II. Included here are construction specifics, contracts, Phase II financial statements, and initial fundraising to construct Atwood. This series also contains a 1956 paper that studied the need for a St. Cloud State student union.
Series 2: Financial Records, 1966-1988
This series includes annual reports and financial statements originating from the operation of the Atwood Memorial Center. Included within the financial records are items related to budget requests, allotments, disbursements, and expenditures.
Series 3: Councils and Boards, 1961-1998
This series contains meeting minutes, agendas, and correspondence from the councils and boards in Atwood. Included in this series is the Atwood Board of Governors (ABOG), the Executive Board, and the Atwood Council.
Series 4: Departments and Services, 1974-1997
This series documents the departments and services offered to students in Atwood. Included here are customer satisfaction surveys, records from the Recreation center and the Atwood stores.
Series 5: Administration, 1969-2005
This series documents the workings of Atwood at the administration level. This includes office correspondence, policies, position descriptions, and documents dealing with the master calendar. Also within this series is various publications produced by Atwood and Title IX records.
Sans titreThese 142 letters were written between Virginia Brainard and her parents Dudley and Merl Brainard between 1939 and 1949. There are a small number of letters not between daughter and parents, but letters written about the Brainard family and a few other significant letters, such as the letter sent by author Sinclair Lewis to Dudley.
At Iowa State
Dating between 1940 and 1943 while attending Iowa State College in Ames, Iowa, these letters are mostly written and mailed by Virginia Brainard to her parents, Dudley and Merl Brainard. She candidly wrote her family about possibly anything and everything, especially adjustments to social life, dating, school, political discussions, her friends and roommates, food, clothing, hygiene, mental health, and various information about her siblings (Connie, Eleanor, Charles, and Edward), her parents, and other family members.
Virginia had immense concern over grades and classes. Money was especially a common worry, needed class expenses, housing, fees, books, personals, clothing, etc. Virginia often wrote about her desire and passion for her journalism classes and writing stories for the student newspaper Iowa State Daily Student. She was also extremely proud when her father Dudley was appointed St. Cloud State president in early 1943.
Going to school during World War II, Virginia also offered insights to the anxieties of young adults and how rationing, army training and the drafting of young men affected Iowa State.
In 1943, Virginia graduated with a degree in Journalism and Home Economics.
After Iowa State
Letters written between the years of 1944 to 1949 were mostly from Dudley and Merl to Virginia. There is a small portion of letters from non-family members and military officials, including Sinclair Lewis, US Navy, and Major Julian Gist.
For the entire year of 1949, the letters are exclusively from Dudley and Merl to Virginia. They generally report of their daily lives, issues, and people they see. The letters are extremely candid about the other Brainard children, especially about how they are each doing in school and their personal lives. Dudley and Merl were extremely proud of Virginia in her accomplishments in journalism and for her future.
Sans titreSpanning from the early years of the university to the later half of the twentieth century, the Campus Laboratory School records range from 1886 to its closure in 1983. The materials in this collection include information on administrative records, student publications, faculty and student material, including lists of class members, and other student creations.
Series 1: Administration
This series deals largely with administrative records that pertain to the Lab School’s budget, purpose and objectives, and reports on the restructure of the school in the 1970s, and its curriculum. The series also includes meeting minutes from faculty meeting minutess, informational booklets about the school itself, and status and annual reports regarding the school’s progress.
Series 2: Publications
This series contains publications written by the students of the Lab School. These publications include the newsletters Riverview Monthly, Booster, Currents, and Challenger. The publication's content was written by students and contains reports of current events, short stories, poems, school news, information about upcoming events, and drawings.
Series 3: Students and Faculty
This series covers the largest span of dates and contains information about the faculty and students. Material here includes lists of students and when they attended the Lab School, lists of faculty and when they taught, grade books, certification of students, and some curriculum material for physical education, art, and music programs. There are are also programs from Lab School events - music, art, and theatre.
Series 4: Oversize
This series is of one oversize box. The series contains drawings drawings of the Lab School buildings on stationary, a scrapbook and letters regarding the closing of the school, and about an exhibit from the school’s final year and day. The exhibit is displayed through a panoramic photo of a wall in which photos were hung depicting faculty and students doing activities throughout the last year of the Lab School in 1983.
Sans titreThe Free Statesman was an alternative independent newspaper published by students of St. Cloud State College, St. John's University, and College of St. Benedict from February 1967 through February 1968 and consisted of 24 editions. The newspaper was created by Leftist students who felt the official student newspapers at their respective schools did not represent their views. Topics include the termination of St. Cloud State professor Ed Richer, the Vietnam War and its protests, campus, local, and national political issues of the day, and area arts, theatre, and culture.
Sans titreThis collection contains the records of Gamma Sigma Sigma, previously called Sigma Theta Chi, and the Story Teller’s Club. Included are three meeting minute books, two treasurer’s books that document some of the group's finances, and correspondence with Isabel Lawrence who organized the Story Teller’s Club. Also included is the club scrapbook which has photos, programs, and newspaper clippings. There are also records pertaining to the name change from Story Teller's Club, to Sigma Theta Chi, to Gamma Sigma Sigma.
Sans titreThis collection contains records of Institutional Effectiveness. Founded in the late 1930s, the main task of this office was to "organize and conduct research studies to provide information and data, serving as a basis for University decision making..." The bulk of the records here serve that purpose, gathering and presenting information about St. Cloud State students, faculty, curriculum, and facilities.
Series 1: Administrative Records
This series contains annual reports, history of Institutional Effectiveness, and faculty rosters. The faculty rosters are significant as they list biographical information about St. Cloud State faculty, including salary. There are additional faculty rosters in Series 2 on microfiche.
Series 2: Reports
This series has a wide variety of reports, nearly all related to St. Cloud State. Many of the reports are related to students, including enrollment, ACT profiles of incoming freshmen, grade distribution, and faculty-student ratios. Other reports are arranged by topic and are listed individually to facilitate access.
Other significant records include those that give a snapshot of St. Cloud State University. This includes the Higher Education General Information Survey (HEGIS), 1966-1980, to the federal government's Department of Education. HEGIS reported on student enrollment, campus facilities devoted to instruction, finances of the university, and degrees awarded. The summary of academic data, dating from 1982 to 2003, compiled information at the department, college and university level about students and student enrollment, including year, gender and major, faculty and staff, credits generated, and class size.
Microfiche is included in this series, likely reports run from the office's database. By academic term, these records report on student enrollment, faculty, instructional load, courses offered and their history, ethnic and racial background of students, students martial status, and transfers to St. Cloud State.
University Archives does have digital records taken from this office's website but are not included in this finding aid.
Sans titreThis collection contains records from the Center for International Studies at St. Cloud State University. Items in this collection date from 1968 to 2014, the majority of which are from the mid-1970s to the late-1980s. Mostly correspondence related to international study, this collection also includes budget ledgers, program publications, newsletters, program yearbooks, and student handbooks.
This records are arranged in three series.
Series 1: Areas of Study
These records are separated by the various locations students studied abroad. Information related to program planning, such as program financing and budgeting, staffing, coursework and student and faculty accommodations can be found here. There is also information on program promotion and assessment. The majority of these files are on the Denmark and England programs.
Series 2: Administrative Records
These records are made up of department correspondence, reports, budgets, newsletters, and publications that contain information related to maintaining and expanding of International Studies. Special attention is given to the promotion of the unit and its study abroad programs. These records also include a few specific programs not associated with a particular location such as Academic Travel Abroad, Common Market Program, Exchange Program Agreements, Foreign Student and Foreign Student Advisor records, and the Fine Arts in Europe program. Information on these programs includes program descriptions, planning, and evaluations.
Series 3: Committees
These records are produced by committees created to review and advise the International Studies program that date mostly in the 1980s and early 1990s.
Sans titreThis collection contains literary and artistic publications that have been put together by students, faculty, and staff at St. Cloud State University. The items in this collection date from 1990 to 2006. Additions to this collection may be ongoing.
The magazine is funded through an SCSU Cultural Diversity Committee allocation and is sponsored through St. Cloud State’s writing center, the Write Place. The contributors to the magazine retain all rights to their work(s). Kaleodiscope is published once a year.
More information on the publication, including submissions guidelines. Past issues can be found at the following website: https://web.stcloudstate.edu/kaleidoscope/. There may be issues on the website that University Archives does not have physical copies for and vice versa.
Sans titreThis collection contains the records of the Library Tri-D Club. The record book was compiled in 1940 by head librarian Edith Grannis, however the records within the book span 1930-1940. Records included are the constitution and code of loyalties, meeting minutes, and photographs.
Sans titreThis collections contains mostly minutes of the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities System (MnSCU) board, including its predecessors, from 1859 to 2006. In addition, other material, such as financial reports, reports to the governor, fact books, and by-laws and rules and regulations.
Series 1: Board Meeting Minutes
These minutes contain information about students, expenses, campus buildings and spaces, and personnel.
Series 2: Other Administrative Records
This series contain by-laws and rules and regulations, factbooks, financial reports, reports to the governor, and correspondence of Warren Stewart. Though mostly dated in the 1960s and 1970s, some material does date to the 1860s and 1880s.
These records are simply copies held at MnSCU and retained at the University Archives for reference purposes. Other records in University Archives, especially records of the President and Academic Affairs, contain records that document the interaction between St. Cloud State and MnSCU.
Sans titreThese records contain photographic materials created by the student SCSU Photo Club. These records include materials such as photos, negatives, slides, and a certificate that pertain to the Photo Club and its members, as well as other general student events and campus life.
The records are arranged in three series.
Series 1: Photo Album
Included are photographs that document Photo Club events such as the Old Fashion Photo Shoot, North Shore Trip, Santa Shoot, and others. These materials were together in bound album.
Series 2: Negative Album
Contains the negatives that document Photo Club events such as the Old Fashion Photo Shoot, Sherburne Spring Fling, Santa Shoot, and others. These materials were together in bound album.
Series 3: Images and Other Materials
This series includes photos, negatives, slides and certificate created by or given to the Photo Club students. These materials document the Photo Club members' trips and events, such as Group Pictures, Halloween Party, and canoeing. The slides document other general student activities and campus life, as well as St. Cloud State buildings.
Sans titreThis series contains academic transcripts of St. Cloud State students who attended the university between the 1870s and 1940.
Information about each student that attended and/or graduated from St. Cloud State University include the classes they attended, the term the class was taken, and the grade received. If the student graduated, a pledge was signed to teach in public schools in Minnesota. The transcript provides information where and when the student taught.
In addition, the transcripts are a wealth of biographical information about the student. Information includes: when and to what class admitted, age when admitted, graduation date, residence, birthplace, high school attended, last school attended, and name, occupation, and nationality of parents.
Sans titre- 14640.jpg
- Dimensions: 14.7 x 5.8 cm
- Physical Format: Black-and-white photograph
- Local Identifier: Ralph Heimdahl Papers
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- Dimensions: 8 x 13.8 cm
- Physical Format: Black-and-white photograph
- Local Identifier: Andrew Lindgren Papers
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- Dimensions: 7.1 x 13 cm
- Physical Format: Black-and-white photograph
- Local Identifier: Andrew Lindgren Papers
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- Dimensions: 6.9 x 13 cm
- Physical Format: Black-and-white photograph
- Local Identifier: Andrew Lindgren Papers
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- Dimensions: 7.4 x 12.8 cm
- Physical Format: Black-and-white photograph
- Local Identifier: Andrew Lindgren Papers
- 14849.jpg
- Dimensions: 7.5 x 13.3 cm
- Physical Format: Black-and-white photograph
- Local Identifier: Andrew Lindgren Papers
- 14854.jpg
- Dimensions: 13.5 x 7.7 cm
- Physical Format: Black-and-white photograph
- Local Identifier: Andrew Lindgren Papers
- 14847.jpg
- Dimensions: 7.3 x 13.2 cm
- Physical Format: Black-and-white photograph
- Local Identifier: Andrew Lindgren Papers
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- Dimensions: 7.4 x 13.4 cm
- Physical Format: Black-and-white photograph
- Local Identifier: Andrew Lindgren Papers
- 14858.jpg
- Dimensions: 7.6 x 13.2 cm
- Physical Format: Black-and-white photograph
- Local Identifier: Andrew Lindgren Papers
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- Dimensions: 8 x 13.7 cm
- Physical Format: Black and white photograph
- Local Identifier: Andrew Lindgren Papers
- 14846.jpg
- Dimensions: 7.8 x 13.5 cm
- Physical Format: Black-and-white photograph
- Local Identifier: Andrew Lindgren Papers
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- Dimensions: 7.6 x 13.6 cm
- Physical Format: Black-and-white photograph
- Local Identifier: Andrew Lindgren Papers
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- Dimensions: 13.1 x 7.3 cm
- Physical Format: Black-and-white photograph
- Local Identifier: Andrew Lindgren Papers
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- Dimensions: 13.4 x 7.8 cm
- Physical Format: Black-and-white photograph
- Local Identifier: Andrew Lindgren Papers
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- Dimensions: 7 x 12.9 cm
- Physical Format: Black-and-white photograph
- Local Identifier: Andrew Lindgren Papers
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- Dimensions: 7.3 x 13.4 cm
- Physical Format: Black-and-white photograph
- Local Identifier: Andrew Lindgren Papers
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- Dimensions: 7.7 x 13.3 cm
- Physical Format: Black-and-white photograph
- Local Identifier: Andrew Lindgren Papers
This collection contains campus telephone directories from 1924 through the 2014/15 academic year. Listed were the addresses, PO boxes, and phone numbers. Often, the directory indicated the year of study for students. Though the first few directories listed only students, most of the directories list faculty, staff, and students. Faculty/staff were always listed separately from students.
Starting in the early 1960s, university offices were listed and, later, would list sub-units and personnel associated with the office. Other information, such as campus maps and lists of buildings were included, as well as advertisements from local businesses and churches.
The final physical copy was printed for the 2014/15 academic year.
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- Dimensions: 7.6 x 5.2 cm
- Physical Format: Black-and-white photograph
- Local Identifier: Athletic Media Relations. Jesse Akemann bio file