- Myrna Baumann
As Baumann’s story recounts, the family’s hired man had no weather-related difficulties driving her mother, Frances Geritz, to the hospital in Lakota on the afternoon of March 15, 1941. Mrs. Geritz was having labor pains.
“Many other people were out that afternoon doing their weekly shopping on a very nice Saturday and enjoying the snow melting as we do in March in North Dakota,” Baumann said.
But, as can happen on the North Dakota prairie in March, the weather quickly changed
. Baumann s father, Jacob, who had taken his father-in-law to a medical appointment in Canistota, S.D., arrived at the hospital just before the wind began blowing fiercely, Baumann said.
Deadly North Dakota blizzards of 1941, 1966 see milestone anniversaries this month
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Sharon Neet, D.A., joined the University of Minnesota Crookston in the late 1990s, “just when UMC was shifting from a two-year to a four-year institution,” said Sharon Neet, D.A., UMN Crookston history professor, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Education department. “I taught three years at Marymount College, a year at Cottey College (Missouri), and six years at Valley City State in North Dakota. I also taught the secondary social science method classes and supervised student teachers.” Neet came to UMN Crookston for a couple of reasons, better pay and benefits. Crookston was getting ready to develop four-year degrees and she had the experience needed at that level. “When I came, I was the only woman teaching that had a doctorate. I had tenure at Valley City so I came to UMC with rank and years toward tenure.”