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Esther Beck papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 70
Abstract
Esther Beck graduated from Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, Minnesota, in 1928 and later became a teacher and dean of women there. She married Rev. Dr. Victor E. Beck in 1941, with whom she moved to Rock Island, Illinois, in 1955. Esther served as a teacher and counselor in the Rock Island public schools between from 1955 until her retirement in 1970. Upon her retirement from the Rock Island School District, she travelled to Taipei, Taiwan, where she taught English, speech, and debate...
Dates:
1941-1973
Found in:
Augustana College Special Collections
Peter Beckman teaching collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS 156
Abstract
The Peter Beckman teaching collection was assembled by a former student and professor of Augustana College, Peter Beckman. Beckman assembled this collection in order to inform students about some of the more radical political and religious views circulating throughout the United States in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s.
The Peter Beckman teaching collection, 1954-1977 and undated, contains correspondence, subject files, publications, and campaign materials, largely related to radical political...
Dates:
1954-1977 and undated
Found in:
Augustana College Special Collections
George Benson papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 328
Abstract
George Benson was born on August 3, 1873, in Moline, Illinois, to John and Louise Benson. He attended Moline schools as a youth, then enrolled in the Augustana College Conservatory of Music in Rock Island, Illinois. He graduated in 1893, and became the organist for First Lutheran Church in Moline. Benson returned to Augustana College to teach piano, organ, and harmony. He was a private instructor as well. He published many original compositions, and became fairly well-known. Benson married...
Dates:
circa 1870-1921
Found in:
Augustana College Special Collections
Conrad Bergendoff papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 5
Abstract
Conrad Bergendoff was the fifth president of Augustana College. Bergendoff was born in rural Nebraska in 1895. He attended Augustana College, and was a member of the class of 1915. He also earned a divinity degree from Augustana Seminary. After several years Bergendoff returned to the seminary as the dean, then as the president of the seminary and the college in 1935. After the seminary split from the college in 1948, Bergendoff remained the president of the college for fourteen more years....
Dates:
1869-1998 and undated
Found in:
Augustana College Special Collections
J. Victor Bergquist sheet music
Collection
Identifier: MSS 23
Abstract
Composer John Victor Bergquist was head of the Augustana College music department and leader of the Handel Oratorio Society and Wennerberg chorus from 1912 to 1918. This collection consists of two printed editions of Bergquist’s oratorio, Golgatha, a photocopy of a published edition of Bergquist’s Sonata for Organ, and a photocopy of a manuscript version of Bergquist’s Sonata No. V in D Minor (Sacred) for Organ.
Dates:
1908 and undated
Found in:
Augustana College Special Collections
Beta Omega Sigma records
Collection
Identifier: MSS 274
Abstract
The Beta Omega Sigma social club (fraternity) was founded at Augustana College 10 December 1929. The organization is known as the “BOS." The Beta Omega Sigma records include fraternity meeting minutes, information about fraternity events, photographs, a fraternity newsletter, and an Augustana Observer article about a fraternity member.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1929-1999, 2018
Found in:
Augustana College Special Collections
Elfriede Beyer papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 71
Abstract
Elfriede Leschewski Beyer was a German immigrant, a member of the Black Hawk Hiking Club, and an award-winning artist active in the Rock Island area in the mid-twentieth century. The Elfriede Beyer papers, 1927-1989 and undated, contains two of Beyer's sketchbooks, Beyer's obituary, and personal notes removed from the sketchbooks.
Dates:
1927-1989 and undated
Found in:
Augustana College Special Collections
John Robert Bishop papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 152
Abstract
John Robert Bishop was born in 1926 and grew up in Clinton, Iowa, before moving to downtown Davenport, Iowa, where he worked as a television repairman. He is most notable for founding the American Nazi Party - Iowa unit in Davenport in the early 1960s. Bishop died in February 1985 in Davenport. The John Robert Bishop papers, 1951-1977 and undated, consists of four series: Personal papers, 1951-1977 and undated; American Nazi Party - Iowa papers, 1962-1976 and undated; American Nazi Party -...
Dates:
1951-1977 and undated
Found in:
Augustana College Special Collections
Black Hawk Hiking Club records
Collection
Identifier: MSS 303
Abstract
The Black Hawk Hiking Club Records, 1918-2004 and undated, contain meeting minutes, membership records, bulletins, scrapbooks, slides, and miscellaneous newspaper clippings and photographs. The Black Hawk Hiking Club was formed in 1920 as the Black Hawk Prairie Club, whose purpose was to promote outdoor recreation in the form of walks, outings, camping, and canoeing. With the election of John H. Hauberg as the club’s first president, the name was changed to the Black Hawk Hiking Club in 1923...
Dates:
1918-2004 and undated
Found in:
Augustana College Special Collections
Black Student Union records
Collection
Identifier: MSS 44
Abstract
The Black Student Union was formed in 1968. Its description in the Augustana College catalog for 1972-1973 states that the group was "open to minority students at Augustana...to express pride in blackness and the traditions and history of the black people; to achieve unity among the black students in their campus lives and activities; [and] to establish better social and cultural relations between black students and the Augustana community." The Black Culture House, also established in 1968,...
Dates:
1984, 1997-2019
Found in:
Augustana College Special Collections