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Edel Ytterboe Ayers

The Old Main
This book, written by Edel Ytterboe Ayers and published in 1969, is "dedicated to the rare and beautiful spirit which embodies the alumni and the friends of St. Olaf College."

 Quarter Centennial Souvenir, 1874-1899
A souvenir booklet, dedicated by the alumni assocation on the first 25 years of St. Olaf College.
Gertrude Hilleboe Manitou Analecta
A record of significant events in the history of the college as remembered by Gertrude Hilleboe. After her undergraduate days at St. Olaf, Hilleboe later occupied the position of Dean of Women for 43 years. 		As It Was In The Beginning
Reflections about St. Olaf life in the college's early days written from a woman's standpoint. Georgina Dieson-Hegland, class of 1904, first published this work in 1950.
My Years at St. Olaf
Written by St. Olaf's first manager of musical organizations, Paul G. Schmidt, this memoir recounts his near life-long association with St. Olaf with a special emphasis on his relationship with F. Melius Christiansen and the St. Olaf Choir. 		old main in fall 

Ole Voices

The aim of Ole Voices is to make available previously unpublished writings of St. Olaf College faculty, staff, students, and alumni that illustrate unique and important chapters in the college's history

Digital Sources
The following primary and secondary sources have been digitized and are available in the St. Olaf College Digital Collections:
The Manitou Messenger Collection 1 -29 (1887-1916)
The Viking Year Book 1904-05, and more in progress.
Joseph Shaw, History of St. Olaf 1874-1974 (1974)
Joseph Shaw, Dear Old Hill: The Story of Manitou Heights, the Campus of St. Olaf College (1992)

"Tidbits" from the archives
Associate Archivist, Jeff Sauve, highlights interesting facts from St. Olaf's history.
Read these "tidbits".

Scripts available at other web sites:

Prof. I. F. Grose, Fifty Memorable Years at St. Olaf (1925)
Follow links to the text through the author or title indexes.

A keyword searchable version is available at the ancestry.com web site.

 

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