48.92.287

Print, Photographic

1988

University of Minnesota Technical College, Waseca, University of Minnesota, Waseca, UMW Students. Material: paper. Size: 5" x 7". Description: black and white photograph of a group of UMW students, some holding awards; identified as Earth/PAS; back row: Jon Ortloff, Jessica Winter, Kay Pedretti, Mark Honsey. Second row: Teresa Brown, Frank Wingert, Mike Berg, Jody Miner, Klark Dahlmann. Third row: Paul Hacker, Al Bahler, Nancy Surprenant, John Blair, Scott Solomonson. Fourth row: Ed Lehman, Todd Aarsvold, Tom Besch, Tracy Lofgren, Brian Tharmann, Mark Umland. Fifth row: Karen Donnay, Amy Hoschiet, Lori Goff, Joel Garsvold, Lori Johnson.

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).