Joanne is a noted American author.
St. Cloud State president from 1965 to 1971. He also served as a faculty member in Speech Communication and, after retirement from St. Cloud State, served as various interim capacities on campus.
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 (… Read more
Max Partch was a biology faculty member at St. Cloud State from 1949 to 1979 where he taught classes in biology and ecology.
Partch was born to Reverend and Mrs. L.C. Partch on November 26, 1916 in Lake Mills, Wisconsin. He was one of five children.
Retired Vice President for Administrative Affairs
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.… Read more
Retired SCSU faculty member
Retired SCSU faculty member
Maurine Gray Bailey was born on April 24, 1903, to Henry and Minnie Bailey in Prairie Du Chen, Wisconsin. By 1920 the family had moved to Foley, Minnesota. Bailey then arrived the St. Cloud Teachers College in June 1921 and graduated in June 1923. After… Read more
Virginia was born on October 5, 1921 to Dudley and Merl Brainard. She was the oldest of five children that included Constance (1924-2000), Eleanor (1926-2001), Charles (1929- ), and Edward (Ned) (1931- ). Dudley was a faculty member and, later, St. Cloud… Read more
Douglas A. Birk was born on April 26, 1943, in Evanston, Illinois. His parents were Delbert and Esther Birk. In 1950 the Birk family relocated to Pine River, Minnesota, to manage the Camp-Show-Me resort on the bank of Norway Lake. Doug showed an interest… Read more
John T. Clawson, Minnesota state legislator from District 19A (1975-1980) and District 19B (1981-1984), was born August 7, 1945 in St. Paul, Minnesota. His family, of Danish lineage from the Lincoln Co-Tyler area, moved around Minnesota until… Read more
William J. Ellingson was an Art faculty member at St. Cloud State University from 1963 to 1993. Born in Forrestberg, South Dakota on March 29, 1933, Ellingson received BFA from the Minneapolis School of Art in 1960 and his MFA from the University of Iowa in 1963.
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… Read more
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… Read more
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… Read more
Isabel was the daughter of Claude Lewis, who was the older brother of author Sinclair Lewis.
Born on April 12, 1921 in New Jersey, Marcella Powers passed away on March 10, 1985 in Santa Fe, New Mexico at the age of 63. Marcella was survived by children Emily Pigeon and Alexander Pigeon. A son, Michael Edward Amrine, passed away in a 1971 Paris car accident.
Gladys Tirrell Nelson was born on March 2, 1917. Nelson, who hailed from Melrose, Minnesota, graduated from St. Cloud State in 1940. Before World War II, she taught in the Menahga and Crookston school systems in Minnesota. After training as a physical… Read more
Don Samuelson was born on August 23, 1932 in Brainerd, Minnesota. He attended the Brainerd High School and became a bricklayer. Mr. Samuelson served as the DFL Crow Wing County Chairman from 1962 to 1968, when he ran for State Representative. He has… Read more
LaVyrle Kulick Spencer was born on July 17, 1943, in Browerville, Minnesota, to Jan and Louis Kulick. After her parents divorced, LaVyrle and her sister moved to Alexandria, Minnesota, with mother Jan.
Soon after graduation from the Staples High School… Read more
Aloys John Tschumperlin owned the largest furniture store and funeral business in St. Cloud during the early 1900s. He was born July 10, 1873 in St. Cloud to Aloys Tschumperlin and Mary Grandelmeyer. He was the oldest of eight surviving children. Other… Read more
Joseph P. Wilson was born in Columbia Falls, Maine on March 16, 1823. Wilson, along with George F. Brott and C.T. Stearns, purchased and platted the land that would become Lower Town of St. Cloud, Minnesota. Wilson studied law in Geneva, Illinois and in… Read more
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.
St. Cloud State's Phi Kappa Phi honorary fraternity was established on April 29, 1974. The chapter became inactive sometime after 1999. It was the first chapter established in Minnesota.
Phi Kappa Phi is a national scholastic honor society which… Read more