Raymond P. Kaighn, Class of 1898. He was Hamline University's first physical education director and Hamline's coach for the first intercollegiate basketball game ever played, which was against the Minnesota School of Agriculture in 1895. He also played on the first basketball team under the direction of James Naismith at the international YMCA training school in Springfield, Massachusetts.
Roswell H. Kinney was the first superintendent of the Minnesota Institute for the Deaf, Dumb and Blind, and served during 1863-1866. He was present when the school opened on September 9, 1863. The school's name changed from "Minnesota Institute for the Education of the Deaf and Dumb" to "Minnesota Institute for the Deaf, Dumb and Blind" during his administration.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota State Academy for the Deaf Alumni Association Museum
Portrait of the Reverend Samuel Fletcher Kerfoot, Hamline University president, 1912-1927. A 1889 Hamline graduate, he was a minister in the Methodist church and president of Dakota Wesleyan University, Mitchell, South Dakota, before becoming Hamline's president.
Victor O. Skyberg was the fifth superintendent of the Minnesota School for the Deaf, and served during 1928-1932. He attended St. Olaf College where it is said that he met a deaf student there. He then obtained a M.A. degree from the Normal Department at Gallaudet College. He also taught at Gallaudet College.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota State Academy for the Deaf Alumni Association Museum
A portrait of William D. Jamieson, a professor of dramatics and oratory at the College of St. Thomas. He was also the first coach of the debating team.
Senior class of 1939 at North Central Bible Institute in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Students (Top row, left to right): Harvey Anderson, Erma Black, Lela Brown, Nola Brown, Donald Brubaker, Ruth Buck, Lorraine Carlblom, Naomi Chapman, Violet Chenney, Milo Cole, Lorraine Cook, Alice Corbett, Elizabeth Coxe. (Second row, left to right): Alice Crump, Iva Demmer, Ethel Demmer, Lillian Detjeng, Harold Dubbels, Agnes Dumke, George Erickson, Harvey Flaherty. (Third row, left to right): Lucille Gillingham, Viola Haarstad, Loretta Halstad, Victor Hillestad, Thomas Hollingsworth, Clarence Johnson. (Fourth row, left to right): Melvin Jorgenson, Edna Kiemele, Orrin Kingsriter, Carl Klapel, Opal Krueger, Melvin Larson. (Fifth row, left to right): William Leek, Norine Lewis, Willis Long, Inez Magnuson, Ethel Martin, Vernon Mathon, Alice McKinniss, Dorothy Morris. (Sixth row, left to right): Alfred Nelson, Frank Nordby, Stella Palanuk, Raeburn Peterson, Virgil Peterson, Florence Rector, Clayton Scharnberg, Ida Schwilk, Martha Siewart, Florence Turner, Jonathan Wahl, Marian Williams, Delbert Woodard, Dale Zink. Faculty (Beginning top row, left to right): Ivan O. Miller (Dean), F. J. Lindquist (President), Anna Froland (Dean of Women), C. M. Ward, Russell H. Olson, Emil A. Balliet, W. H. Boyles, Frances Axtell, Wilson A. Katter. North Central Bible Institute (NCBI) was founded in 1930. In 1938, North Central Business College (NCBC) was created and added to the school's title. NCBC was dropped in 1945, and, in 1946, NCBI became NCBI&TS when a Theological Seminary (TS) was added. The seminary remained until 1949. North Central Bible Institute was renamed North Central Bible College in 1957. The most recent name change was in 1998, when North Central Bible College became North Central University.