8219.5

Print, Photographic

1961

Herman Peterson Night Banquet. 8" x 10" black and white photograph of crowd in SSA dining room, partially identified as Fred Forrest, Elaine Herbig, Dr. R.O. Lovold, Mrs. Lovold, James Fox, Elaine Fox (hidden), Mildred Youngberg, Manley Youngberg, Fred Hager, ?Mrs. Hager (Ballard), Ervin Ewest, Harriet (Schaetzke) Ewest, ?Izzy & Jack Bullard?, Adolph Kopischke, Lynn Gunsolus, Mrs. Gunsolus, Vivian Kopischke, Maynard Buland, Mrs. Buland, Fred Halstead, Hazel Halstead, Edna Kral, Herman Peterson, Mrs. Peterson, Rodney Searle, Jane Searle.

Picture part of set taken at Southern School of Agriculture (UMW) on October 14, 1961---Herman Peterson Recognition Night. In August 1912, the University of Minnesota’s Board of Regents purchased 246 acres of land half a mile to the south and west of Waseca on the edge of the city limits. The Southeast Demonstration Farm and Experiment Station began operations in 1913. In 1925, the Southeast Demonstration and Experiment Station became the Southeast Experiment Station. In 1941, with an additional land purchase, the station totaled 598 acres. Land was set aside for the Southern School of Agriculture (SSA) which admitted its first students in 1953. In 1969, the Southern School of Agriculture evolved into the University of Minnesota Technical College-Waseca then it was renamed as the University of Minnesota-Waseca (UMW), sharing land with the newly named Southern Experiment Station (SES). In 1992, UMW graduated its final class and then the UMW campus buildings were sold to the Federal Bureau of Prisons. In 1999, the Southern Experiment Station became the Southern Research and Outreach Center (SROC).