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  Oral Interview of Byron Gilchrist Allen

  Byron Gilchrist Allen

  Byron Allen discusses his involvement in politics throughout the 1930s, and with the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party in Minnesota during the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s.

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  Oral Interview of Roy L. Anderson

  Roy L. Anderson

  Roy L. Anderson reflects on his years at the Fergus Falls State Hospital, including such topics as changing attitudes towards mental health therapy and psychiatric help, and the expansion of the mental health program in Minnesota. He speaks of his early years as a groundbreaker in Minnesota in modern psychiatric therapy. He also mentions his plans for retirement in December of 1983.

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  Oral Interview of Alvin Arneson

  Alvin Arneson

  Interview with Alvin Arneson on schools and farming during the 1920s and 1930s, and his involvement in progressive politics in North Dakota and Minnesota.

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  Oral Interview of Oscar Askegaard

  Oscar Askegaard

  Oscar Askegaard discusses his childhood in Comstock, Minnesota, and his time at the Moorhead Normal School, where he was a member of the first football team. Other topics include the lives of Norwegian immigrants, the Great Depression, World War I and World War II, Prohibition, and the growing use of automobiles and tractors.

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  Oral Interview of Robert Badal

  Robert Badal

  Interview of former Dean of Arts and Humanities at Moorhead State University.

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  Oral Interview of Serine Bale

  Serine Bale

  Serine Bale talks about her family’s pioneer history and her experiences in rural schools. She also discusses how different events in American history were perceived at the time and affected life in rural North Dakota.

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  Oral Interview of Joseph A. Belgum

  Joseph A. Belgum

  Joseph A. Belgum discusses the attitudes of pastors and the Lutheran Church towards counseling and psychiatry in the 1930s and 1940s, including how this led to his attending the School of Social Work at Columbia University in New York. Belgum also tells how the Lutheran Social Services in Fargo developed and describes the agency’s relations with Children’s Village. He also describes the development of training programs for prison and mental health hospital chaplains. Belgum also mentions the North Dakota House of Mercy, settling refugees, and his involvement in the Model Cities program in Fargo, which included low cost housing for poor people. He also discusses attitude changes in social workers, the problems connected with social work, and how people’s attitudes have changed towards social problems.

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  Oral Interview of Peter Berg

  Peter Berg

  Peter Berg discusses the Great Depression and its effects on the farming community, as well as economics, Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s politics in the 1930s, and local social events.

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  Oral Interview of John Bloom

  John Bloom

  John Bloom discusses the conditions at Fergus Falls State Hospital from the 1950s to 1983. Topics include the population of the institution, and methods such as shock treatment, lobotomies, and drug treatment. He also talks about the growth of social services and the role of the social worker.

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  Oral Interview of Maude Irwin Boettger

  Maude Irwin Boettger

  Maude Boettger discusses the effects of the Great Depression on farming communities and her own life, and contrasts the Depression years to modern times

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  Oral Interview of Gertrude Allman Branigan

  Gertrude Allman Branigan

  Gertrude Branigan discusses city life in Minneapolis during the Great Depression. She talks about welfare programs, the Works Progress Administration, medical facilities, recreation, and personal family life.

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  Oral Interview of Darrell A. Burkland

  Darrell A. Burkland

  Darrell Burkland describes the historic changes and developments of social work: the hiring practices, educational requirements and programs, change of attitude by the community towards mental illness and alcoholism, and the growing importance of legislation regarding social work.

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  Oral Interview of Loren Clark

  Loren Clark

  Loren Clark discusses the German prisoner-of-war camps near Ortonville, Minnesota, and the type of work performed by POWs, their characters and personalities, the town’s reactions to the prisoners, and medical services to the POWs.

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  Oral Interview of Alice Corneilussen

  Alice Corneilussen

  Alice Corneliussen discusses her experiences at Moorhead State, both as a student in the early 1920s, and later as a faculty member from 1931-1967. Topics covered include student attitudes, changes to campus and curricula over the years, effects of the Depression and the Second World War on the College, recollections of the faculty, and discussion of rural school education methods and practices.

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  Oral Interview of Alice Corneilussen

  Alice Corneilussen

  Miss Corneilussen discusses her early days in Moorhead and what it is was like in 1920s for women in higher education.

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  Oral Interview of Roland Dille

  Roland Dille

  Dr. Dille discusses career, family, and Moorhead State University.

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  Oral Interview of William Dosland

  William Dosland

  Interview of William Dosland as part of the Heritage Education Committee's Oral History Project.

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  Oral Interview of Doris Eastman

  Doris Eastman

  Doris Eastman was born in Alexander, ND in 1916. She was employed by the Forum of Fargo-Moorhead from 1934-1979. She became women’s editor at the newspaper in 1959. After retiring, she stayed busy working at the Episcopal Church and Clay County Historical Society. The interview relates the importance of Wayne Peterson in her career, as well as her husband, Ed, who also worked for the Forum. She tells about the days of the Forum in Fargo as well as working for the Moorhead Daily News.

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  Oral Interview of Allen and Ruth Erickson

  Allen Erickson and Ruth Erickson

  Allen Erickson and his wife Ruth discuss their experience while students at Moorhead State during the late 1920’s and early 1930’s. They talk about classes, instructors, and conditions at Moorhead State during that time. Dr. Erickson also discusses his duties as a faculty member in the Departments of English and Speech.

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  Oral Interview of Raymond Gesell

  Raymond Gesell

  The interview deals with Mr. Gesell’s life as a Minnesota State Legislator (1945-1949). He discusses many aspects of his political life including information relative to Old Age Assistance and appropriations for state colleges.

  Mr. Gesell, a grandson of Randolph Probstfield, was born in La Crosse, Wisconsin on March 19, 1896, and came to the Red River Valley in 1916. He inherited the Probstfield Farm. He died on February 15, 1981.

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  Oral Interview of Arthur Lawrence Hamilton

  Arthur Lawrence Hamilton

  Arthur Lawrence Hamilton discusses his early years growing up on his parents’ farm, and various jobs he held, both while he was in school and after he graduated. He also talks about the impact of World War I in Langdon, North Dakota; speakeasies in the 1920s; and business during the Great Depression and World War II.

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  Oral Interview of Anne G. Hammett

  Anne G. Hammett

  Anne G. Hammett discusses her early education in Glyndon, Minnesota, and then at the Agricultural College of North Dakota and Minnesota State Teachers College. She also talks about recreation, the church, and aspects of life during the Great Depression.

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  Oral Interview of Viena Hendrickson

  Viena Johnson Hendrickson

  Viena Hendrickson discussed her parent’s involvement with the socialist and workers’ movements among the Finns of northern Minnesota. She described their political and social organizations. Hendrickson also talked about her own involvement in the Socialist and Farmer-Labor parties and the latter’s eventual union with the Democratic Party. She described how women became involved in politics, especially in the Farmer-Labor Women’s Federation, and then shared her impressions of Eugene Debs, Floyd B. Olson, Elmer Benson, Henry Shipstead, Harold Stassen and Hubert Humphrey. Finally, Hendrickson discussed red baiting in the 1940s and 1950s, isolationism and her views on the United Nations.

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  Oral Interview of Katie Hilde

  Katie Hilde

  Katie Hilde discusses her family’s immigration to the United States, her childhood, and marriage. She also talks about healthcare and home remedies; her school days, when students were punished for speaking Norwegian and German in school; and spinning and spinning wheels.

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  Oral Interview of Ruth Janice Schillerstrom Hoglund

  Ruth Janice Schillerstrom Hoglund

  Ruth Janice Schillerstrom Hoglund describes growing up in Moorhead, Minnesota, and the businesses and services in Fargo-Moorhead.