St. Vincent Memories

H umboldt-St. Vincent School, like any other school, had its share of bullying and bullies... Michael Rustad : I remember when Dave Boat...

Vintage St. Vincent High School pennant from 1920s [Guest article by Michael Rustad , originally from nearby Humboldt, MN] In the sum...

"... H umboldt always had outside presentations called lyceums. One lyceum featured three black singer singers. Another lyceum displ...

Controlled Burn:  Older section of school T here were no girls in the senior class of 1987, forcing Humboldt-St. Vincent to do without a...

St. Vincent (left) & Orleans (right):  Built using same plans...? School districts were especially numerous in the early history of ...

These two photos were taken in the same general area of St. Vincent , around the same general time period (early 1900s). There appears to ...

This is a memory of Margaret Matthew Patzer about the St. Vincent Fair around 1928. Margaret is referring to Velma McCrystal Isely who was ...

Class Photo, circa 1911.   Far Left:  Ed Gooselaw, Ted Ryan, Dick Lapp, and John Gooselaw Back Row:  Eliza Stranger (later Ma Short), Em...

Simone Cameron baked homemade buns and bread for the St. Vincent School children ... A shot of a class descending the staircase at t...

Elizabeth Lapp in 1948 [Courtesy:   Digital Archive, UMC ]  T hanks to Kristine Baldwin Ohmann , who facilitated our get together, I in...

Back Row:   Ronald Cox, Phyllis Brown, Wilbert Clow, William H. Ash  Middle Row:   Donald Shaw, Roy Webster, Hugh Griffith, Jim Griffith...

Front: Eileen Twamley, Mamie Cleem (Captain), Mae Gamble Back: Isabelle Fitzpatrick, Verlie Cameron, Fidessa Wilkie,  Dick Lapp (coach), ...

R uth Younggren, a first grade teacher of poor children in Minnesota, yearly spent the first two weeks teaching the sounds of English and...

Fire escape slide on west side of St. Vincent School [Courtesy of: Cleo Bee Jones] I am not sure when the fire escape was put in, but ...

"HISSSSssss..." - I remember well the sounds of the radiators... After writing about the St. Vincent School recently, I reme...

St. Vincent Classroom, circa 1903: My great uncle Charlie is the boy against the window shade in the far back, on right; my great aunt ...

From 1920 "Farm Boys & Girls Leader". Organized in 1919, it was the start of what would be known as the  the 4-H club of th...

So many children entered through these doors T he sign is blank.  The steps are mostly buried, a railing rises from the earth.  A  gi...

T he Sisters of the Propagation of the Faith began working in Pembina , in the mid 19th century... 1856 - These sisters, seven in number...

St. Vincent School in its early days... A lot of tramps took possession of the school house at St. Vincent , Minnesota, and after getting...