Women's group sewing an United Nations flag in Rugby, North Dakota, March 4, 1951
Photo by Curtis Strand of Strands' Studio, Rugby, North Dakota
The Strand Studio negative collection 1948-1988 is housed at the NDSU Archives at North Dakota State University NDSU Libraries in Fargo,ND.
digitalhorizonsonline.org/digital/collection/ndsu-strand
library.ndsu.edu/ir/handle/10365/17200
This photo appeared on the front page of the Pierce County Tribune, Rugby, North Dakota on April 4, 1951.
Caption: “Active Homemakers make UN Flag
The description is: The picture is of the Active Homemakers club making a United Nations flag at their regular meeting at the Arndt Erickson home on March 14. The flag is to be presented to the Rugby high school.
From left to right:, sitting are: Mrs. Esther Saby, Mrs Agnes Welch, Mrs. Arden Luther and daughter, Mrs. Roy Brundage and Mrs. John Fay. Stranding, left to right are Mrs. Mary Brundage, Mrs Pius Striefel, Mrs. Senora Fosser, Mrs. George Kraft, Mrs. Clarence Olson, Mrs. Arndt Erickson, Mrs. L.K. Bickler, Mrs. Andrew H. Fedje and Mrs. Kittil Kittilson. Back row left to right, Mrs. Ed Crook, Mrs. Douglas Martin, Mrs. Alice Graham and Mrs. Gilbert Berdahl.
Mrs. John Fay is club president, Mrs. Roy Brundage, vice president and Mrs. Alice Graham, secretary-treasurer.
There are 17 active members and four honorary members. The honorary members are Mrs. Agnes Welch, Mrs. Christine Harnit, Mrs. Nan Bucklin and Mrs. Louis DuPuis Sr. Mrs Welch was the only honorary member present at this meeting. The late Mrs. Anna Heitseh was also an honorary member of this club.”
The powder blue United Nations flag hung in our study hall during my junior high days of the 1960’s.. The high school had moved on to a new building, but the U.N. flag was left behind. It was a welcome relief to gazing around at all my classmates and the framed picture of George Washington covered in spit-wads.
I always had a good feeling about the U.N. flag ---we were at the geographical center of North America, and it was a long way to any point on the continent, not to mention the globe. It made me feel apart of the world that was so distant from my home town of Rugby, North Dakota. Funny what symbols can do ---
Women's group sewing an United Nations flag in Rugby, North Dakota, March 4, 1951
Photo by Curtis Strand of Strands' Studio, Rugby, North Dakota
The Strand Studio negative collection 1948-1988 is housed at the NDSU Archives at North Dakota State University NDSU Libraries in Fargo,ND.
digitalhorizonsonline.org/digital/collection/ndsu-strand
library.ndsu.edu/ir/handle/10365/17200
This photo appeared on the front page of the Pierce County Tribune, Rugby, North Dakota on April 4, 1951.
Caption: “Active Homemakers make UN Flag
The description is: The picture is of the Active Homemakers club making a United Nations flag at their regular meeting at the Arndt Erickson home on March 14. The flag is to be presented to the Rugby high school.
From left to right:, sitting are: Mrs. Esther Saby, Mrs Agnes Welch, Mrs. Arden Luther and daughter, Mrs. Roy Brundage and Mrs. John Fay. Stranding, left to right are Mrs. Mary Brundage, Mrs Pius Striefel, Mrs. Senora Fosser, Mrs. George Kraft, Mrs. Clarence Olson, Mrs. Arndt Erickson, Mrs. L.K. Bickler, Mrs. Andrew H. Fedje and Mrs. Kittil Kittilson. Back row left to right, Mrs. Ed Crook, Mrs. Douglas Martin, Mrs. Alice Graham and Mrs. Gilbert Berdahl.
Mrs. John Fay is club president, Mrs. Roy Brundage, vice president and Mrs. Alice Graham, secretary-treasurer.
There are 17 active members and four honorary members. The honorary members are Mrs. Agnes Welch, Mrs. Christine Harnit, Mrs. Nan Bucklin and Mrs. Louis DuPuis Sr. Mrs Welch was the only honorary member present at this meeting. The late Mrs. Anna Heitseh was also an honorary member of this club.”
The powder blue United Nations flag hung in our study hall during my junior high days of the 1960’s.. The high school had moved on to a new building, but the U.N. flag was left behind. It was a welcome relief to gazing around at all my classmates and the framed picture of George Washington covered in spit-wads.
I always had a good feeling about the U.N. flag ---we were at the geographical center of North America, and it was a long way to any point on the continent, not to mention the globe. It made me feel apart of the world that was so distant from my home town of Rugby, North Dakota. Funny what symbols can do ---