Entries tagged with ‘1940’
Factoid Friday
Snowball fight, circa 1940 Where might one find some other awesome photos and facts like the one above? Visit the College Archives at https://gustavus.edu/library/archives/.
Blast from the Past!
Every Gustie knows what it is like to walk across campus in a cold winter day when it is snowing and the wind is blowing so hard you cannot see two inches in front of your face. This is a photo of “Hello Walk” during the Armistice Day blizzard on November 12, 1940. This is […]
Factoid Friday
On November 11, 1938, the Gustavus community suffered a great tragedy. The bus carrying members of the football team back from St. Norbert’s was in an accident that killed athletic director George Myrum and two students, Donald Anderson ’40 and Carl Olson ’41. Four months later the new Myrum Memorial Field house was completed and […]
Blast from the Past!
This week’s Blast from the Past is in honor of the Nobel Conference ® . The sciences have always been an integral part of the Gustavus curriculum, from the very beginning. This photograph was taken in the early 1940s, showing four women in a chemistry class.