Home Page Members Links HEC Documents Workshops Oral Histories Veterans' Oral Histories Bev Paulson Commission Members Evonne Anderson Les Bakke Jane Cumber Alice Ellingsberg Pam Furstenau Lois Johnson Curt Lundeen Greg Rohlik Ron Salber Louella Smith Karen Vosburg Chuck Walen Marrion Walsh Emeriti Members Bernard Gill Past Members Past Members MEMBER TERM/BIOGRAPHY James Specht Lee Grugel 1978-1979 Rev. Phillip Antilla 1978-1980 Rev. Theodore Berktold 1978-1980 Frances Berqquist 1978-1980 Viola O'Day 1978-1980 Royce Yeater 1978-1982 Helen Euren 1978-1983 Ruth Herring 1978-1983 Audrey Smerud 1978-1984 Doris Eastman 1978-1985 Mary Ellen M. Schmider 1978-1986 John Bye 1978-1987 G.K. Haukebo 1978-1991 June Dobervich 1978-1995 Audrey Jones 1978-1996 Karl Karlgaard 1979-1982 Ron Matthies 1979-1985 Dennis Hamilton 1980-1982 Cay Merryman 1980-1985 Helene Kaeding 1980-1987 Rev, Phillip Pederson 1980-1989 Evelyn Swenson 1981-1986 Alice Johnson 1982-1985 Steven C. Johnson 1982-1988 Helen M. Rudie 1982-1993 Dr. V. Duane Thysell 1983-1987 Betty Vinz 1984-1985 Ilene Johnson 1984-1989 Grace Landin 1984-1994 David Staples 1985-1988 June Hennebry 1985-1990 Al. Ohrt 1986-1988 Pearl Reck 1986-1988 Terry Shoptaugh 1986-1991 Erna Swisher 1986-1995 Diane Reedy 1987-1989 Esther Garrity 1988-1989 Cynthia Palmer 1988-1992 Mary Dahl 1990- Pam Burkhardt 1990-1993 Mark Strand 1990-1997 Jane Skjei 1992- Devon Doney 1992-1996 Lois Fisher 1993-1997 Rick Crume 1994-1995 Sharon Hoverson 1995- Bill Bekkestad 1996- Eunice Johnston 1996- Michael Robinson 1996- John Butze 1996-1997 Jeanne Alm 1997-2008 Grace Cochran Bobrowski 1998- Bev Paulson Bev Paulson, an expert on methods of searching for ancestors in the United States and Sweden, has regularly taught genealogy classes. She has chaired the annual Scandinavian Hjemkomst Festival since 1986. Bev is a charter member of the Heritage Education Commission, and in 1993 was named YWCA Woman of the Year for her volunteerism. She has been a Commission member since 1978. Jane Skjei Jane has been a Commission member since 1992. Victor Knell Victor Knell works at the USDA, Bioscience Research Laboratory on the campus of North Dakota State University. He is a board member of the Germans from Russia Heritage Society, a past president of the Red River Chapter, Germans from Russia Heritage Society. He has been the editor of the Chapter's quarterly newsletter for 17 years. He is also a Village Coordinator for two ancestral villages in Russia. Village coordinators gather together all birth, marriage, death records, pictures, history and anything else available from these villages in Russia where Germans settled.This data can be used by people researching families from the German ancestral villages in Russia. He has published three family histories and genealogies. He has manned an information booth at the Family History Workshop since 1980 and has done several sessions on researching the Germans from Russia. He has been a Commission member since 1996. An independant commission established by Minnesota State University Moorhead Heritage Education Commission  Box 82  Minnesota State University Moorhead  Moorhead, MN  56563 heritage@mnstate.edu