by L. DeAne Lagerquist | Oct 8, 2015 | Uncategorized
Shipstead (MN, Farm-Labor, then Republican) testified to the Senate Committee on Immigration concerning the Nye Resolution to revised the National Origins clause of the Immigration Law. He was generally an isolationist, this legislator from Minnesota observed: I would...
by L. DeAne Lagerquist | Sep 21, 2015 | Uncategorized
Now I have spent some mornings in the St. Olaf archives, reacquainting myself with the finding tools available for the Boe collection and starting to read through the files. Even when I have a clue about a letter that might be useful, I still read the whole folder it...
by L. DeAne Lagerquist | Sep 15, 2015 | Uncategorized
Gem from Boe today: Responding to a questionnaire from the Baptist Board of Education in 1922 , he notes that although usually St. Olaf faculty are Lutherans the head of Physical Training is a member of the local Baptist church. Not only that: “He is a good...
by L. DeAne Lagerquist | Sep 11, 2015 | Uncategorized
Reading Dorothy Schwieder’s Iowa: the Middle Land for background on Boe’s childhood years in Silver Lake, parish service in Winneshiek County, presidency of Waldorf College, and legislative career. In the preface she quotes Laurence Lafore: “The...
by L. DeAne Lagerquist | Sep 10, 2015 | Uncategorized
July and August were busy, but not recorded here. I was getting settled in a different office. I was learning Scrivener, a writing software program that I’m almost evangelical about. I prepared and made a presentation on Lutherans and immigration to a group...
