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Kathe Erickson & Cindy Fritzke
"This had to be in Jr. High and it looks as if it was almost one of those places that you get your photo taken, like at the fair.  I would venture to guess that it was about 7th grade around confirmation time and we must have been 13.  Other than that, I don't ever remember seeing this photo.  It's pretty funny", per Kathe. Photo: Cynthia Fritzke

Some familiar faces (in no particular order): Mrs. Gladys King, Wayne Pfuhl?, Sharon Anderson, Marilyn Paschke, Diane Bryant, Inese Neiburgs, Kay Ashley?, Lois Jensen?, Eunice Hallin?, John Eckberg?, Lavonne Ditschler, Mary Tholen, Carol Packard, Dave Lindquist.

A few more familiar faces from Mrs. Gladys King's home room:  Colin Quinn?, Linda Opsahl?, Beverly Hill?, Marilyn Paschke, Gail Sonntag?, Rosemary Olson?, Cheryl Larson?, Ione M. Johnson?
Photo:  Cynthia Fritzke

"Double Period"-English and Social Studies.  Later taught music.  Home Room 6.
DOB: 27-Sep-1921
DOD: 11-May-2006

8th Grade, 1958.  Last Day of school.   Back: Linda Opsahl, Sharon Ermuth, Cheryl Larson, Audrey Ball, Shirley Dahlberg, Janis McGough.  Front: Sharon McNamara, Beverly Hill, Julie Olson.
Photo: Cynthia Fritzke

8th Grade, 1958.  Room 207:  Audrey Ball, Carole Pilcher, Patricia Remarcik, and Miss Sally R. Ingram, "Double Period"-English and Social Studies.
DOB: 10-Dec-1892
DOD: 18-May-1979

Miss Ingram's 8th grade class in June, 1958.
L to R:  David Neuman, Kathy Kacheroski, George Theilmann, Bruce Crandell, Mona Houser, Larry Anderson, Paul Lamberger, Jim Broms, _?_, Pat Remarcik, Ricky Forbes, Larry Graen, Randy Aronson?, and Roger Hoeft.

Terryl K. Haaland, the last day of 8th grade, June 12, 1958.

Bill Argue, 8th Grade, 1958.  South High graduate.  Moved to Arizona.

Steve Ramstad, 8th Grade, 1957-8

Dick Swenson and Paul Lamberger, 8th Grade, 1958

Dick & Dave

9th Grade, the last day of school?, 1959.
Colleen Skovbroten, Kay Paddock, and Karen Liljemark.

Miss Marie C. Thomason, algebra, Room 102.  A rainy day, June 11, 1959. 
DOB: 15-May-1902 DOD: 28-May-1993

John Rusnacko, 9th grade - 1959

Dirk Putnam, Gary Berg, and Larry Anderson, 9th Grade - 1958-9

Roger & Steve

Dan Myhre - 9th Grade

Dave, Dick & John - 1959

Lois, Shirley & Marilyn

We were known as the Falcons

Dan Myhre - Summer, 1959

Dave Benolkin, RHS '63, Dick Runman, and John Rusnacko - Summer, 1959

South High School
With Winston, my Yorkshire Terrier puppy

Larry Kemling says "hi" to everyone and is still going strong in 2011.  Sadly Dave Neuman passed away on May 17, 2010 at age 65.

Larry A, Kemling 6/2/09

Born in Seneca County, New York, Folwell, a Civil War veteran, was encouraged to come to Minnesota by his brother-in-law, the Rev. Gregory Chase.  Chase wrote to Folwell in February 1869 of a new and exciting "State University at St. Anthony," that desperately needed qualified professors.  Folwell, an adventurous soul who was trained to teach Latin, Greek, mathematics, and engineering, came to the young state a few months later. 
By August, he had been selected as the first president of the University of Minnesota.

From the start, he advocated for the rights of students, who took to calling 36-year-old Folwell "Uncle Billy."  The young president quickly realized that many students were financially and intellectually unprepared for University life.  Insisting that it was the "duty of the institution to make it possible for a young person to live on $3 a week," he walked door-to-door with his charges, asking the residents of neighboring houses to take in student boarders for a small fee.

Folwell was president for 15 years, but his impact on the institution can be felt to this day.  In his inaugural address, Folwell detailed the Minnesota Plan, a forward-thinking educational philosophy that shaped the state's early schools and continues to guide the University.  Folwell's service to the University did not end with his term in the president's office.  For many years, he volunteered as the fledgling institution's first librarian, and he taught political science from 1875 until his retirement in 1907.  As professor emeritus, he continued to be a mentor and advocate for countless faculty, staff, and students until his death in 1929 at age 96.

Majestic Folwell Hall
Built in 1906–07 as a replacement for Old Main, which has been destroyed in a fire, Folwell Hall is considered one of the University's finest structures.  Designed by St. Paul architect Clarence H. Johnston, Sr., Folwell Hall cost $410,000 to build.  The building is on the National Register of Historic Places and can be identified by its ornamented design (a menagerie of sculpted faces and animals–cats, cherubs, rabbits, eagles, and even gophers decorate its exterior) and its distinctive clusters of chimneys–26 in all.

Famous Residents
In one form or another, the University's College of Liberal Arts has been represented in Folwell Hall since its construction.  Language departments were some of the building's first residents; many continue to reside there today.  Other early tenants of Folwell Hall included the alumni magazine, the German museum, the Gopher yearbook, the departments of Pedagogy, Oratory, and Psychology, and the Minnesota Daily.

At the end of the 2009-2010 school year, the Minneapolis Board of Education will close Folwell Middle School, primarily because of declining enrollment.  Folwell students will transfer to Sanford Middle School in the fall.

Folwell was erected at 20th Ave. S. and E. 36th St. in 1931.  At that time, Roosevelt High School housed grades 7 through 12.  Folwell was built to be a "junior high school", and Roosevelt became a "senior high school".  According to an article in the Minneapolis Tribune (Aug. 30, 1931) 721 seventh and eighth graders were enrolled during the first year at the new junior high school, and 14 of the 25 instructors were former Roosevelt teachers.  Ninth graders were added in 1933.

Described in school board records as a four-story stone and masonry building.  Folwell Junior High had 15 general classrooms (seating 40 students each).  Two sewing rooms, two art rooms, a library, a science room, 5 boys' industrial rooms, an auditorium, and two gymnasiums.  A community room was also available for use by any "worthwhile organization in the district".

A second wing was added to Folwell in 1937 (southeast side) at a cost of $175,000.  It had several unique features, including band and orchestra rooms with circular amphitheater seat platforms and a large joint workroom between two classrooms on each floor.  A special room was constructed in the basement for parking bicycles.  To make it easier for students to wheel their bicycles up and down the stairs, a groove was installed at the side of the steps.

In the beginning, eight elementary schools fed into Folwell, most of which no longer exist.  Folwell absorbed students from the west half of Nokomis Junior High's attendance area when that school closed in 1978.  In 1983, ninth graders were moved back to the senior highs, and, in 1991, Folwell became a middle school for grades six through eight.

~ Much of the information for this article was originally researched by Folwell students and published in The Folwell Falcon, 1921-1981. ~

This is an article from the Minneapolis Journal just before the school opened in September, 1931:

Seven hundred twenty-one pupils have enrolled at the new Folwell Junior High School which is one of the latest additions to the Minneapolis public school system.

The pupils are divided into twenty advisory groups.  There are eight 7B groups, six 7A groups, and six 8B groups.

Twenty-five teachers are members of the faculty.  Fourteen are former Roosevelt instructors.  They are Miss Rose Hatz, sewing and geography; Miss Gladys Jacobson, cooking; Miss Virginia Reid, mathematics; Miss E. B. Thornton, art; Miss Marie Thomas, English; Mrs. Esther Foster, mathematics; W. E. Hamstreet, geography and sheet metal; Mrs. Frances Kneeland, geography and history; Mrs. Mildred Jensen, English; Miss Ella Koefoed, English; Mrs. Jennie Walton, mathematics; Miss Sadie Ingram, English (I wonder if this isn't meant to be Miss Sally R. Ingram); and Miss Mabel Tomlinson, English.

Miss Irma Smith, former Roosevelt nurse, has been assigned as nurse at Folwell.  Bertha Ferguson, Roosevelt visiting teacher is holding that position at the new school.  Hollis Baird, also of Roosevelt, has been appointed to the new school but she has not reported yet.

The rest of the faculty consists of three former Franklin teachers, one from Phillips, and one from Bryant.  One teacher is a former principal, and three instructors are from out of town.  The gym teachers are former elementary school instructors. 

A three-story structure, Folwell has fifteen general class rooms seating forty pupils each, two sewing rooms, two art rooms, a library, a science room, five boys' industrial rooms, an auditorium and two gymnasiums.

Folwell also has a Community room which is open for use to any worthwhile organization in the district.

                                        Folwell Students June 1937.  This picture was taken before the new addition (wing) was added.