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As a precaution, I ran my Part 5 of Northern’s Beginnings past a retired Northern professor, who found an error in the previous segment. He discovered I hadn’t spelled President Brockman’s first name correctly, and he asked why I hadn’t mentioned the Math-Science building. So I approached managing editor John Kelleher about correcting my error. Actually there were two, the other being the omission of the Physical Plant Building. Of course, he grumbled something about “this isn’t a book, you know.” But he consented if it was s...
Gary A. Wilson Havre-Hill County Preservation Commission (This is the fifth and last in a series of stories on the history of Montana State University-Northern.) New Northern Montana College President Lou Brockmann continued the building expansion that G.H. Vande Bogart had started over the first 22 years, through the Depression and the war years. Under Brockmann, Cowan Hall was finished in 1953, and the building expansion continued all the way through the construction of the...
It was the summer of 1929, and the “Assinniboine” or “Montana” School opened its doors as a two-year college with classes held in the old junior high’s three-story wing of the old high school, and a 5,000-volume library in the basement of the First Presbyterian Church, located one block east of the school. Some classes took place in the church. The school had an enrollment of 94 students, not including those taking extension or correspondence courses. The struggle to establ...