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The Business and Professional Women Club of Moorhead organized in Moorhead, Minnesota in 1952. The club was dedicated to the betterment of conditions for women. It took an active interest in social, educational, economic, and political problems at both the local and national levels. The club was represented at district and state conferences.
The Moorhead Area Women’s Political Caucus was formed in the early 1970s. It was connected with the Minnesota’s Women’s Political Caucus and the National Women’s Political Caucus. The goals of the organization were to get women involved in politics and to elect women to public office. The organization also worked against discrimination of women.
The Minnesota Region I Women’s Resource Center was organized to provide services specific to the needs of women throughout Minnesota Region I. The services included were aid to battered women, counseling, crisis intervention for child abuse and sexual assault, educational/personal growth programs, and referral.
The Moorhead [Minnesota] Drug Company Records are a collection of correspondence, blue prints, building permit, invoices, and ledgers which relate to the construction of the Moorhead Rexall Drug Company. The year covered most extensively is 1951 with much of the construction taking place during this time.
This organization concerns itself to help aged persons with their needs and wants.
A native of Rutland, North Dakota, Marvin Evenson was involved in politics from his early 20s, both in both North Dakota and Minnesota. He served as a party organizer for the Democratic Farmer-Labor (DFL) Party in a number of capacities, including Finance Director and chairman for the 9th District of the DFL in Minnesota, and chairman of the DFL party in the 7th District (northwest Minnesota). As party chairman, Evenson coordinated party activities for many DFL candidates.
Through the combined efforts of the Women’s Resource Center, Crookston, Minnesota and the Women and Health Task Force of the Agassiz Chapter of the National Organization for Women in Thief River Falls, Minnesota, the Martha Rogers Ripley Alliance for Battered Women was founded.
Marvin Dauner of Hawley, Minnesota, was first elected to the Clay County Board of Commissioners in 1974, and remained on the Board until 1986. His twelve years on the Commission were characterized by an attention to detail and a desire to, in his own words, give “an intelligent, not a political” response to the needs of his constituents.
Mary Osterfield, born in 1911, was a British musician and music teacher. She taught music at Moorhead State University from 1967 to 1977 and played with the Fargo-Moorhead Symphony Orchestra. She died in 2012 at 100 years old.
Sugar beets have been grown in the Red River Valley since the 1920s. In August 1972, some 300 farmers living in some seven North Dakota and Minnesota counties formed a cooperative. This cooperative, subsequently incorporated as the Minn-Dak Farmers Cooperative, allowed the members to diversify their farming operations by adding sugar beets to their crops.