Elementary Certificate News Today

Helen Joy Noeske, 88, passed away peacefully on June 29, 2022 at the SMP Health-St Raphael Care Center of Valley City, ND. Her final days were spent surrounded by family and friends whose lives she had touched in so many ways.

7/28/2008: Brynhild Haugland, former member of the North Dakota House of Representatives, was born on this day July 28, 1905, to Norwegian immigrants on a farm near Minot, North Dakota. Haugland received her Elementary Certificate from Minot State Normal School, now Minot State University, in 1924, and taught in Ward County for two years before returning to the family farm to assist in its operation.