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Institutions, like MSUM, must collect, disclose, and retain government data in compliance with state and federal law. Educational records are governed by the Minnesota Government Data Practices Act and the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA).

This chapter of the WCTU was organized in 1891, and was named the Scandinavian WCTU. The chapter contained members from both Fargo, North Dakota, and Moorhead, Minnesota. The chapter pursued the WCTU goals of educating the public on the dangers of alcohol and drugs.

The Swedish Culture Heritage Society of the Red River Valley [Minnesota/North Dakota] was founded September 20, 1976. The purpose of the Society is to enrich the members’ lives with the Swedish culture, to spread awareness of Swedish culture in the community, and to contribute tangibility to Swedish cultural presence in the community.

The Women’s Christian Temperance Union is an organization of Christian women banded together for the protection of the home, the abolition of the liquor traffic, and the triumph of Christ’s Golden Rule in custom and in law. The Lucy Hayes Union was founded in 1886 and reorganized in 1889. The early records have been lost. The bulk of this collection is dated from 1933 to 1969.

In 1976, representatives of Fargo, North Dakota, and Moorhead, Minnesota, discussed a proposed museum for preserving and displaying the history and culture of the two cities and their surrounding counties. The proposed museum was to be built in the form of a structure that bridged the Red River, was to be jointly funded by the two cities, and was to be administered by a group representing both communities.

Naturalization processes, first created by the U.S. Congress in 1790, has been a judicial function ever since, and applicants for citizenship are required to follow a regular judicial process, including application and petition to the court, court action, and right of appeal. Applicants whose petitions for citizenship are granted are also required to take an oath of allegiance to the U.S. All of these actions are recorded in the record volumes of the appropriate county court.

The First Congregational Church of Detroit Lakes, Minnesota was organized in 1872 by the Reverend Hiram N. Gates. Gates was the minister of the Congregational Church in Connecticut when he received a commission from the American Home Missionary Society to establish Congregational churches in settlements along the newly constructed line of the Northern Pacific Railroad in northwestern Minnesota. Before leaving the East, Gates met Colonel George H. Johnston, who, as president of the New England Military and Naval Bureau of Migration, was in the process of establishing a colony at Detroit on lands purchased from the Northern Pacific Railroad Company (the name of the town that was to Detroit Lakes in 1926). Many of the original settlers of the “New England Colony” were Congregationalists, and Johnston convinced Gates to settle there.

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Our study abroad course offers an overview of the education system in Norway, situated in the larger context of Scandinavia, with a focus on school philosophies and structure from early childhood through university preparation level.