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First Year |
Evonne Anderson |
Evonne has been a Commission member since 1990. She has been archivist most of that time and for the last three years, has been on the committee that judges the book awards. She works at the registration table during the Family History Workshop. Evonne is retired from working in the Communications Office at Concordia College. |
1990 |
Les Bakke
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Les Bakke, Information Technology Director Emeritus, MSUM, is a past president of the Heritage Education Commission. He is currently coordinating the Commission's Veteran's Oral History project which is dedicated to collecting oral histories from area veterans, especially WW II era veterans. Les has been a Commission member since 1994. |
1994 |
Roland Barden |
Roland Barden is President Emeritus of MSUM. A native of Williams County in North Dakota, he is interested in (1.) American history related to the movement of his Barden Ancestors westward from the Plymouth Colony, and (2.) the history of Scandinavian Immigration and Settlement in the Midwest. Dr. Barden joined the Commission in 2010. |
2010 |
Jane Cumber |
Jane Cumber, Office Manager, Office of Vice President for Student Affairs, North Dakota State University has been a member of the Heritage Education Commission since May 2009. She started family history research in the early 1970s by documenting records from elderly relatives both oral and written. She has done family research in ND, MN, WI, Norway, Germany, and Poland. |
2009 |
Alice Ellingsberg |
Alice Ellingsberg is a Certified Genealogist and Past National Chairman, Lineage Research Committee, National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (NSDAR). Locally she serves as president of the Red River Valley Genealogical Society and Registrar of the North Dakota State Society, NSDAR. |
2005 |
Doug Hamilton |
Director of public relations for MSU Moorhead. Appointed to the HEC board in 2010. |
2010 |
Lois Johnson |
Lois graduated from Moorhead State University in 1980. Her interest in genealogy began when she took Dr. Clarence Glasrud's Freshman English class "Midwestern Experience". She is the coordinator of volunteers for the genealogy room at the Scandinavian Festival held in June each year in Moorhead, MN. |
2009 |
Kristi Kaiser |
With a degree in Zoology from NDSU, Kristi has worked for more than 20 years in the computer industry at Great Plains/Microsoft. Beginning her family research in 1976, she was bitten by the geno bug and has been researching ever since. Her areas of interest for genealogy research include regional history of the Dakotas, Minnesota, Wisconsin as well as countries including Canada, Ireland, Luxembourg, Germany and Poland. |
2011 |
Curt Lundeen |
Curt is a graduate of Concordia College and has been on the Commission since 2006. He has been researching family history in Minnesota, North Dakota, Sweden & Norway for about 20 years. He assists others in the Genealogy Room at the Scandinavian Hjemkomst Festival in Moorhead. A native of Stephen, Minnesota, Curt now lives with his wife LaVonne on Lake Ida. |
2005 |
Ron Salber |
Ron has been a member of the Commission since 2009. |
2009 |
Louella Smith |
Louella has been a member of the HEC since 2003 and has served as President for two years and interim treasurer for nine months. She is the Chair of the Family History Award, helps at the registration table and Chair of the table decorations. Louella became interested in genealogy in 1978 after attending a Community Education class. Her heritage is Norwegian, Swedish and Danish. Louella enjoys genealogy, planning family reunions, gardening, reading, music and flowers. |
2003 |
| Marie Williams |
Marie has been an educator for over 25 years. She graduated from BYU
with a BA in Elementary and Special Education. She also has a Master
Degree in Education Administration. She has live in the Fargo area for almost 2 years, having moved here from Colorado. She had the opportunity to visit places where her ancestors lived while living in New England. Her family has been interested in Family History since she was young and has a collection of her family's personal histories. She recently was asked to be over the Family History Center for the LDS Church in the Fargo-Moorhead area. |
2011 |
Margaret Zeren |
Margaret Zeren has lived in the Fargo / Moorhead area for her entire life and graduated from MSUM with a BS in Computer Science and a minor in Business. One year later, she started at Great Plains Software as a Software Developer and worked for Great Plains for 18 years when it was acquired by Microsoft in 2001. She is still employed by Microsoft as a Software Test Manager with the ERP product Dynamics GP. Her other hobbies, besides Family Research include, quilting, gardening, and most recently jewelry making. Her interest in Family History Research started in High School with the required project to write her family history that was when she learned that her Irish Great Great Grandfather was a ship captain on the Great Lakes. Since then, she has attended the HEC Family History workshop for over 25 years and joined the HEC in 2011. She is married and has two grown children. |
2011 |
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