1921
Small pox epidemic interfered with basketball season
scheduled games
1921
First pageant “The Valley Spirit Speaks”
written by Superintendent Selvig
1921
November 2 senior boys and faculty women cast the
first votes for president issuing in a new era—women
were allowed to vote
1925
Third decade since the establishment of the experiment
station
1925
NWSA Aggies beats Morris at homecoming game 43-0
1926
School enrollment reaches all time high of 228
1926
Women’s camp begins, with as many as 200 attending
1927
Austin Dowell replaces Selvig as superintendent
1929-1933
Ed Widseth attended NWSA. He went on to play for the
Gophers and later the New York Giants.
1932
Second generation of students enrolled at NWSA
1933
Emergency repair work on Kiehle was required due to
a five-year dry period. NWSA dubbed “School
of Service” during this time period
1934
“Windbreak campaign” initiated
1935
Entire student body signed pledges to plant at least
one white elm on home grounds designating elms as
Northwest School trees
1935
Sound equipment had been installed so talking pictures
could be viewed. Students became eligible for state
aid that fall. Record enrollments were reached
1935
Darkest hour of the Depression seemed to be over,
but weather did not improve until 1936.
1936
F irst seven months broke all records in Crookston
for heat, cold, and drought.
1937
T.M. McCall succeeded Dowell as superintendent of
the NWSA
1937
700 parents attended Parents day. 36 former students
had 37 sons and or daughters attending school.
1938- 1939 Owen Hall underwent repairs as a WPA project,
for a total cost of $50,619
1941
Crookston Aggies were conference champs in football
and co-champions with Morris for basketball. In November,
first “Faculty Variety Night” patterned
after the traditional Student Variety Night. March
15 the “black blizzard” struck leaving
12 dead in Polk County.
1942
Pearl Harbor attacked. Murals were installed in Kiehle
auditorium- a gift from the class of 1932
1945
Fiftieth anniversary of the Northwest Experiment Station
1946
New dormitory for girls was being built and was named
for T.M. McCall in 1959.
1948
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Veterans were enrolled in the on-the-farm training
program
1949
Plaque added to the Soldier’s and Sailor’s
Memorial following WWII. Herman Skyberg of Fisher,
1916 graduate of the NWSA was elected a University
Regent.
1950
Prom theme was “Moonlight and Roses” The
most disastrous flood in fifty years forced students
to travel by boat to campus.
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