Hmm, I think I am testing Hasse's patience about off topic chit-chat with this one.
A few years back I was a vol at special collections in the Augie library. One day a big box of "stuff" came to us from the treasurer's office and I got the fun job of sorting it out.
Amongst the really interesting stuff was this little letter which is self-explanatory. Rev. Jesperson was secretary/treasurer at that time. Something like that.
I can also remember seeing a bill with a revenue stamp upon it indicating it was from the first years of Augie when it were organized by Swedish & Norwegian emigrants. Augie was at Paxton IL during that time. The bill was from a local carpenter and it read something like this: Bill for repairing the door of the Norwegian professor's house
and in that same vein, Judy, former archivist, showed me a thick album of fotos of students of an early year. At the end were some 20 students with each labeled "Norsk", "Norsk" and of course Judy made it a lot of fun when she pronounced that. Is it no wonder that the Norwegians went away to South Dakota to form their own Augustana?
Chuck
A few years back I was a vol at special collections in the Augie library. One day a big box of "stuff" came to us from the treasurer's office and I got the fun job of sorting it out.
Amongst the really interesting stuff was this little letter which is self-explanatory. Rev. Jesperson was secretary/treasurer at that time. Something like that.
I can also remember seeing a bill with a revenue stamp upon it indicating it was from the first years of Augie when it were organized by Swedish & Norwegian emigrants. Augie was at Paxton IL during that time. The bill was from a local carpenter and it read something like this: Bill for repairing the door of the Norwegian professor's house
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Chuck
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