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From: "JAMES J KAPPELHOFF" <>
Subject: Re: [MNRAMSEY] A Challenge !
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 14:42:26 -0500
In-Reply-To: <756B334A-E94B-4DBE-A9A3-ECFDA8F4C36B@wizwire.com>


My cousin, Annette Terwedow, graduated from Johnson in 1952 or 1951. I
graduated from Monroe H.S. in 1952.

Jim Kappelhoff

>From: "L J Swendner, Jr." <>
>Reply-To:
>To:
>Subject: Re: [MNRAMSEY] A Challenge !
>Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 07:32:56 -0700
>
>Gae:
>NOPE ...... down the road a ways => Auburn, CA. At the end of my
>career I worked for the U.S. Forest Service in their Tahoe Nat'l.
>Forest Headquarters in Nevada City. SUPER HAPPY to now be away from
>that ever-increasing traffic on Hwy. 49 !!!
>I have a number of Friends & Relatives in St. Paul, most of whom are
>in (or FROM) the St. Paul's Eastside ... the Swedes !! I'ma 1951
>graduate of Johnson High. What kinda' St. Paul Research are you
>conducting ??
>
>Bud < >
>
>
>On Jun 28, 2007, at 7:18 PM, Gae Seal wrote:
>
> > Dear Bud,
> >
> > Would that historic Gold Rush town in northern California by any
> > chance be Nevada City from which I am also trying to conduct St.
> > Paul research?
> >
> > Gae Seal in Nevada City, CA
> >
> > "L. J. Swendner, Jr." <> wrote:
> > Hello List Members:
> > I've run into a problem that my meager research abilities have been
> > totally stonewalled by Bureaucratic limitations. Altho born and
> > raised on the Eastside of St. Paul, I now am a resident of a historic
> > Gold Rush community of Northern California and find on-site
> > Researching in MN is limited to infrequent visits to MN. It concerns
> > former students of the Wheelock Elementary School for the years of
> > 1939 & 1940. The School was located at 1521 Edgerton Street, at the
> > intersection of Edgerton St, and Wheelock Pkwy. ....... Parkway
> > Drive was also an angular cross street.
> > 1) I have a photo of 23 students of Mrs. Helen Henderson's 1939
> > Kindergarten class. I can definitely recognize 11 students .... I am
> > unable to link a name to the other 12 familiar faces.
> > 2) I have a photo of the 24 students of the 1940 1st grade class of
> > Clara Meyer's. I can definately recognize 10 of these students, but
> > again am unable to link a name to the remaining familiar faces.
> > 3) Logical reasoning dictates that Student Attendee Records would
> > have been made to support further educational requirements at some
> > future date.
> > 4) I have been able to obtain SOME documentation of the current
> > location of these Records ...... the story of Bureaucratic
> > shuffling !!
> > 5) Wheelock School was in DISTRICT 625, whose offices are located at
> > 2102 University Ave. West, St. Paul, MN 55114-1806, Phone (651)
> > 632-3764.
> > These offices have informed me (Sept. 18, 2006) that, "Earlier years
> > we had a library for the school district where archives such as year
> > books. pictures, etc. would be housed. With budget cuts it was
> > disbanded approximately 1982 and it sat in boxes for a few more
> > years. About 10 years ago it was donated to the Minnesota Historical
> > Society in St. Paul. My suggestion for the wooden structure picture,
> > teachers and students list contact (MHS) Minnesota Historical Society
> > and (RCHS) Ramsey County Historical Society. Addresses as follows:".
> > (list provided)
> > I have searched to the best of my LIMITED abilities the MHS but not
> > the RCHS. On the RCHS Web Site they offer in-house searching for a
> > fee ...... while NOT adverse to paying for a viable search, I am
> > reluctant to pay if (as with MHS who claimed NO Records). I was
> > recommended to search OTHER sites !!
> > I am HUMBLY requesting that someone having Research SKILLS, visit
> > this (RCHS) organization to determine IF said Records are in their
> > Archive ....... if so, I would THEN initiate (AND PAY => either the
> > individual or the RCHS) for applicable Record recovery !!
> > THANX to anyone accepting this challenge !! I can be contacted at <
> > >
> >
> >
> > LJ (Bud) Swendner, Jr.
> > It's TUFF to be modest
> > when you're Swedish
> > < >
> >
> >
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