RED WING STATE TRAINING SCHOOL:

An Inventory of Its Subject Files at the Minnesota Historical Society

Government Records

Part or all of this collection is restricted.
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	Creator:	Minnesota State Training School for Boys.
	Title:	Subject Files.
	Dates:	1891-1999.
	Language:	Materials in English.
	Abstract:	Correspondence, reports, and related materials covering such topics as an adult re-entry program, Dining Hall restoration, budgets, employees, institution history, visitors from Estonia (1992-1993), a 1911 complaint against Superintendent F. A. Whittier, secure detention cottage, group therapy, and discipline.
	Quantity:	2.4 cubic feet (4 boxes).
	Location:	See Detailed Description for shelf locations.

Also found in these files are administration, program, group leaders, safety committee, and Protestant Altar Guild meeting minutes; general brochures; samples of residents' school work; oral history transcripts and reminiscences; a Volunteer Services Center scrapbook; Selective Service reports; staff bulletins and memoranda; articles about the school featured in the state employee newsletter, Capital News; maps of the grounds; and programs from Christmas, music and theater events, commencements, and baptism and confirmation services.

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ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION

Access Restrictions:

Some of the records include private information about individuals. Records with private information are closed for 75 years from date of last entry in the record. The restricted records are noted in the finding aid. Researchers must apply for permission to use these records. Please consult library staff for more information.

Preferred Citation:

[Indicate the cited item and/or series here]. Minnesota State Training School for Boys. Subject Files. Minnesota Historical Society.

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Accession Information:

Accession numbers: None; 983-81; 997-111; 2005-16

Processing Information:

Processed by: Processing Staff; Rich Arpi, September 2004

Catalog ID number: 990017285810104294

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DETAILED DESCRIPTION


Location	Box
111.K.11.4F	1	Administration meeting minutes, 1986-1992. 7 folders.
			Twice monthly meetings of the school’s administrators.


		Adult re-entry program, 1978-1979. 4 folders:
			Correspondence, 1978-1979.
			Procedural manual, 1978.
			Reference manual, 1978.
			Resident manual, 1978.


		Alumni lists, undated, approximately 1970s.
			RESTRICTED.


		Annual inventory, January 1, 1940.


		Annual inventory, January 1, 1941.


		Board of managers biographies, 1988.
			Collected by Truman Ingersoll.


		Brochures, undated, 1930-1990.


		Building specifications, July 31, 1986.


Location	Box
114.H.7.3B-2	2	Calendar, December 1988–December 1989. 1 volume.
			Includes campus scenes, photographs, and history.


Location	Box
111.K.11.4F	1	Capital budget project proposal, October 1997.


		Capitol News, December 1961-1967. 2 folders.
			Articles about the Training School; written by C. J. Hertensteiner for the state employees official publication.


		Christmas events programs, 1925-1965.
			RESTRICTED.


		Commencement programs, 1927-1969.
			RESTRICTED.
			Incomplete.


		Committee lists, 1992.


		Confirmation and baptism service programs, undated, 1947-1961.
			RESTRICTED.


		Dining hall restoration, 1971-1991. 5 folders.
			Includes Historic Preservation Feasibility Study, Miller Dunwiddie, architects, December 1974.


		Diplomas, 1932, 1949.
			RESTRICTED.


		Employees, 1934-1985. 5 folders:
			Lists, 1962-1968.
			Miscellaneous, undated, approximately 1960s-1970s, 1985.
			New hires, 1934-1940.
			Dismissed and left service, 1934-1940.
			Retirement parties, 1975, 1978.


		Financial documents, miscellaneous, approximately 1891, 1916, 1926.


		Follow-up study of two years following parole for the calendar years 1969, 1970, 1971, and 1972, approximately 1974.


		Goodhue County Fair, August 1988.


		Governor Jesse Ventura’s visit, March 19, 1999.


		Group leaders meetings, December 1969-May 1971. 2 folders.
			Weekly meetings of the Guided Group Interaction program leaders, a program in group therapy.


		Historical materials, undated, approximately 1970s-approximately 1999. 3 folders:
			History of Parole in Minnesota, undated.
			History: An Institution Reborn, 1969, by Orville Pung, assistant superintendent; History of the State Training School, approximately 1970s. 2 items in 1 folder.
			The Training School: From the Beginning, approximately 1999.


		Information packet, approximately 1970s.


		Instructions and notices to parents, undated.


		Management by objective, undated.


		Maps of grounds, 1962-1967.


		Mayor’s Citizens Committee on the Training School, undated, 1964-1968.


		Minneapolis Police Department, 1924, 1931.


		Music and theater events programs, 1922-1975.
			RESTRICTED.


		Oral history transcripts and reminiscences, undated, 1989-1990. 5 folders.
			Series of interviews apparently done in preparation for the Centennial celebration. The interviewed include employees Carl Hertensteiner, John Odden, Ron Hendrickson, Cliff Mattson, Ruth Bauer, Bob Henn, A. C. Peiterson, Edna Martenson, and Gertrude Notebaart; employees’ children Dorothy Holmes, Donna O’Connell and Margaret Maginnis; and a few unidentified residents. The interviewers were Dane Peterson, Char Henn, and Jerry O’Rourke.


Location	Box
111.K.11.5B [box missing]	3	Outreach program/project to develop and implement, undated.


		Papers concerning the Training School, undated, approximately 1940s–1989.


		Population count, weekly, 1973.


		Program meeting minutes, 1985-1992. 8 folders.
			Weekly meetings detailing activities and detentions at the school.


		Protestant Altar Guild minutes, 1949-1959.


		Remarks of Executive Director, Minnesota Citizen Council on Delinquency and Crime, September 11, 1968.
			Given at the Red Wing High School; concerns disturbances at the Training School.


		Report by State Agent on Girls in School, 1895-1904.


		Report for Handbook on Social Welfare Agencies, 1912; Report to Bureau of Education, Department of Interior, 1912. 2 items in 1 folder.


		Resident’s schoolwork, 1966-1968. 12 folders.
			RESTRICTED.
			Includes essays, poetry, artwork, and worksheets from a number of residents, including Terry Beaulieu (Bush), 1967; Duane Bedeau, 1967; Michael Dale Benford, 1967; Charles Bergstrom, 1967; David Conley, 1967; David Frank, 1966-1967; G. Holst, (approximately 1967); John David Mitchell, 1967-1968; James Reid, 1967; Steve Shonseng, 1967; and Samuel R. Smith, 1966-1967.


		Russian trip and Estonian visitors, 1992-1993.


Location	Box
114.H.7.3B-2	2	Scrapbook, Volunteer Services Center, 1966-1970. 1 volume.
			RESTRICTED.
			Documents activities at the center; apparently maintained by the director of the service center, Meredith Juers. Includes some laminated pages.


Location	Box
111.K.11.5B [box missing]	3	Scrapbook and loose clippings, 1911-1912. 1 volume and 1 folder.
			Clippings concerning a complaint brought before the State Board of Control by Ralph A. Wheelock, private secretary of Governor A. O. Eberhart, accusing Training School Superintendent F. A. Whittier of brutality, incompetence, and neglect of duty. Whittier was exonerated of the charges.


		Safety committee minutes, 1986-1992.
			Scattered.


		Secure detention cottage, 1993-1995. 4 folders:
			Project 04-93 interviews, September 20, 1993.
			Design development report, April 15, 1994.
			Construction project manual, January 16, 1995.
			Correspondence, 1994-1995.


		Selective Service, 1962-March 1968. 4 folders.
			RESTRICTED.
			Contains “Report Concerning Individual Confined in or Discharged from State Institutions.”


		Soil and water conservation plan, November 1968.


		Staff bulletins, 1967-1968. 2 folders.
			RESTRICTED.
			Weekly, mimeographed information sheets detailing activities and events at the Training School. Resident’s names are included.


Location	Box
111.K.11.6F	4	Staff bulletins, 1969-1972. 3 folders.
			RESTRICTED.


		Staff memoranda, 1955-1976, 1982-1990. 7 folders.
			Formal memos sent from the administration to the staff on an as needed basis.


		Standards for secure cottage programs at state juvenile facilities, December 1979.


		Statistics, 1925-1990.


		Summary of biennial budget request, 1965-1967.


		Superintendent’s speech to staff, October 21, 1964.


		Surround: Handbook to a Peer Group Ministry of Youth to Youth, 1968.


		The State Reform School, December 23, 1891.
			Copy of article in the Red Wing Daily Republican.


		Tiede, Tom, article, 1969.
			Correspondence generated by an NEA (Newspaper Enterprises Association) wire article written by Tiede documenting the life of a Training School resident. The article was not complimentary to the school.


		Visitation policy, undated.


		Warrant control sheets, 1964-1969.


		Which Way Will He Go?, undated.

CATALOG HEADINGS

This collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the Minnesota Historical Society. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons or places should search the catalog using these headings.

Topics:: Christmas -- Minnesota.; Church work with juvenile delinquents -- Minnesota.; Criminals -- Rehabilitation -- Minnesota.; Draft registration -- Minnesota.; Female juvenile delinquents -- Minnesota.; Group psychotherapy -- Minnesota.; Historic buildings -- Conservation and restoration -- Minnesota.; Juvenile corrections -- Minnesota.; Juvenile delinquents -- Minnesota -- Discipline.; Juvenile delinquents -- Education -- Minnesota.; Juvenile delinquents -- Institutional care -- Minnesota.; Juvenile detention homes -- Minnesota -- Maps.; Juvenile detention homes -- Minnesota -- Finance.; Juvenile detention homes -- Minnesota -- Officials and employees.; Juvenile detention homes -- Minnesota -- Security.; Juvenile justice, Administration of -- Minnesota.; Prisoners -- Return to society -- Minnesota.; Schools -- Minnesota.; Schools -- Exercises and recreations -- Minnesota.; Volunteer workers in corrections -- Minnesota.; Women in church work -- Protestant churches.

Persons:: Hertensteiner, Carl J.; Pung, Orville B.; Tiede, Tom.; Whittier, F. A. (Frank Albert), 1860-1925.

Organizations:: Minnesota State Training School for Boys -- History.; Minnesota. State Training School for Boys and Girls, Red Wing.

Places:: Estonia -- Foreign relations -- 1991-.; Red Wing (Minn.)

Document Types:: Maps.; Statistics.

Functions:: Releasing.

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RED WING STATE TRAINING SCHOOL:

OVERVIEW

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ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION

DETAILED DESCRIPTION

CATALOG HEADINGS