Opened in 1966 as a student union, the building was named in honor of St. Cloud's Atwood family, including Clarence Atwood. Atwood was an 1880 St. Cloud State graduate who served as the school's resident director from 1911 to 1921. Additions were constructed in 1972, 1993 and 2004.
This scrapbook has a wooden face and back, with hinges that open the front cover. Inside are pictures of the Student Representative Council leaders (Ken Thielen, President - Sheet Metal; Debbie Klimstra, Secretary - Practical Nursing; John Huhn, Vice President - Cook Chief; Rick LeNoue, Parlimentarian - Accounting). Pictures include a party for Campus Director Ed Hill, students working in the bricklaying program, the north campus dedication and open house on June 10, 1973, Student Senate agenda and meeting minutes from May 23, 1973, student social and ping pong tournment.
Ground breaking of the Eden Prairie Campus construction. Lorin Gasterlund holding the shovel. The Brooklyn Park campus groundbreaking took place simultaneously on the same day.
First School Board for Independent School District Number 287. First row, from left: Richard Emery, Byron Brekke, Clifford Smith, unknown. Back row, from left: Judson Anderson, Dan McPherson, Roald Anderson, Harry Picha.
Group photograph of several Department Chairs, Administrators, Campus director (Ed Hill), and Assistant directors (Joe Pucel and Roger Lee) of the Brooklyn Park campus Suburban Suburban Hennepin County Area Vocation Technical School after an on-campus meeting. Front row from left: unknown woman, Joe Pucel, Roger Lee, Ed Hill, Joyce Goebel, Sylvia Lee, Wilfred ""Ike"" Eidenschink. Back row from left: Dale ""Lefty"" Hungerford, unknown woman, unknown man, John Markwell, Adrian Olsen, John Radway, Russ Fryer, Hans Gilgen, Dave Smith
Groundbreaking of the Eden Prairie campus construction. Unknown man holding the shovel. Al Lundgren, pictured far right. The Brooklyn Park campus groundbreaking took place simultaneously on the same day.
Group photograph of faculty and students in the Graphic Communications program taken outside the Eden Prairie campus building. Faculty pictured include Orv Hein, Don Hendres, and Dwayne Erickson
Photograph of the Suburban Hennepin County Area Vocation Technical School booth at the Minnesota State Fair. Signs, maps, and handouts on the schools, locations, and hiring faculty.
Lee Gresser, a campus administrator, staffing the Suburban Hennepin Country Area Vocational Technical Schools booth at the Minnesota State Fair. Signs, maps, and handouts on the schools, their mission, locations, and desire for qualified faculty.
Photograph of Richard Emery speaking during a ceremony where he received a bust of himself. The ceremony was held in Indiana where Emery received his college degree (1938) and worked in Indianapolis Schools as a teacher, coordinator of distributive education, junior high school principal, and director of personnel.
Photograph of Richard Emery during a ceremony where he received a bust of himself. The ceremony was held in Indiana where Emery received his college degree (1938) and worked in Indianapolis Schools as a teacher, coordinator of distributive education, junior high school principal, and director of personnel.
"A Day at Our Saint Paul Concordia" is a black and white, silent film that documents the lifestyle of a student at Concordia College, Saint Paul in the 1920s and 1930s. The film includes shots of the campus, dormitories, classroom instruction, a gymnasium class, a baseball game, and clips from a graduation ceremony. The film highlights many of Concordia's early professors: Martin A. H. Graebner (President), Herman Wollaeger, William Moenkemoeller, Ernest Lussky, Oswald Overn, Fred Wahlers, William Dobberfuhl, E. G. Richard Siebert, Paul Stor, and Oliver Harstad.
Students studying at the Centennial Hall sunken lounge. Completed in 1971, Centennial Hall, named in honor of St. Cloud State's establishment in 1869, served as the campus library until 2000.
Mitchell Hall was completed in 1958 as a dormitory for women. The building was named for William B. Mitchell, who served as St. Cloud State's resident director from 1877 to 1901.
