Northwest School of Agriculture - Red River Aggie Yearbook (Crookston, MN)

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N.W.S.A. i TOP ROVV: Anderson, Volker, Hanson, Ingehretson, Nelson, Lunsetter, Burk, Thieling, Moen, Hovalson. BOTTOM ROVV: Sanden, Holmes, Vilvin, Chapman, Greenley, Anderson, Atkins. The Boy Scouts The first Scout organization at the Northwest School was started when Melvin Burk, a Lone Scout, started the Northwest Eagle Fraternity in 1927. Melvin can be properly called a pioneer of scouting at the Northwest School. His little group consisted of energetic young folks from various sections of the Northwest who were determined to make a success of the undertaking. With the addition of new students to the ranks of the Lone Scouts the organi- zation was carried on from year to year. By taking a part in many of the activities they became a part of the school. One of the little bits of history that will stay in the memory of a group of the scouts is an overnight hike they made one year near the close of the winter term. This year through the influence of various faculty members of the Northwest School and the able assistance of the Scoutmaster Ocock and Scout Leader Olson, a Boy Scout Troop was organized. This was the hrst troop in the history of the Northwest School Scout organization. The troop, called Troop Number -l-6, was installed with a fine sized group of boys promising a very good membership for the year. Scoutmaster Ocock, to whom much credit was due, has started to drill the boys in scoutcraft with hopes that they will be able to participate in the scout contests at the Wiriter Crop Shows this year. Scouting offers a program of very useful and interesting activities for an active boy. They learn many fine and useful things such as camping, first aid, safety rules, and in the study of nature they learn the value of the wild life. Scouting develops the finest things in a boyls character, physically, mentally, and morally. lfERMlT GRIilENI.EY WALT ICR L UNS ETTER Sixly-fight

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N.W.S.A. ' Slefte Amundson Brandli, johnson Tangjerd, Pearson The Y. M. C. A. and the Y. W. C. A. organizations were organized March 8. 1913. This was done for the purpose of enabling the students to indulge in a study of the Life of Christ and to place emphasis on the religious side of life. The very first Associations of this kind established in America were for the purpose of in- creasing the spiritual vitality and fruitfulness through confronting young men and women. Officers for the preceding year are elected before the close of each school year. Each Sunday morning at nine o'clock, the Bible class is held with a member of the faculty as the speaker, and the President of each presiding. On Sunday evening the regular Church Services are given with a Minister of the various churches of Crook- Ston. Observe the completeness of His teachings. What idea essential to the religious life has been added in well-nigh two thousand years? Think, for example, of such words of His as these, HI am the VVay, the Truth, and the Life , I am the resurrec- tion and the life g Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away g but remain in all of the lives to come. The officers of the two organizations are: Y. VV. C. A. Y. M. C. A. President ....... ..... A nn Brandli President ............ john Pearson Vice President ,..... Orpha Johnson Vice President ...... Lester Tangjerd Secretary ...... ..,. T umina Slette Secretary ...... Lawrence Omundson -A. L. B. Sixty-:zfven X

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yN.W.S.A.' Music SOY BEANS AND A STEINWAY VVe have grown accustomed to seeing the picture of the grand piano in our an- nuals from year to year. VVe have grown accustomed, too, to hearing it in assembly, for hymns, accompaniments and solos. We point to it with pride when a visiting artist comes to entertain us, but not many of us know that we owe this beautiful in- strument to the vision and foresight of a member of the Agronomy Department. VVhen Mr. R. S. Dunham joined the staff he found not one piano on the campus suitable for concert use. Mr. Dunham is himself an accomplished musician and has added much to the musical life of the school, and he set himself to see what could be done. There is no money for such a purposef' lVIr. Selvig said. lf we can grow a crop that will pay for it, all well and goodf' So Mr. Dunham raised a crop of soy beans. A crop of beans that was in turn to raise enough money to convince a Grand Forks piano firm to send us the beautiful Steinway that we accept as part of our daily life. But lest we forget the soy beans and the man who dreamed of a grand piano we dedicate this music section of our Aggie to that man who has done as much for the cause ot music on the Northwest Campus as any other member of the staff-Mr. R. S. Dunham. Sixty-nine' N i