41.05.37

Print, Photographic

1954

Southern School of Agriculture Seniors Class. 4 1/2" x 3 1/2" black and white photograph of a group of students, seniors of the Southern School of Agriculture visiting the University of Minnesota campus; identified L-R: (kneeling) Orlo Toquam, Curtis Meyers, Gerald Munson, Gary Sheldon, Duane Brase, Don Clayton; (standing) Maynard Breck, Don Van Sickle, Bob Kortuem, Darrell Lockwood, Sherrill Bigelow, John Ruen, Edna Kral, Pete Fischer, Gloria Dahle, Russell Johnson, Lowell Quiram, Edward Brekke, Don Paschke, Mary Kortuem, Richard Renkley, Robert Hodgson, Owen Ferguson, Francis McGannon.

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).