In May, 2024, Beverly Kossack, Outreach Director of The Fountains at Hosanna, a senior living community in Lakeville, MN contacted “O’Brien County’s Bell-Times-Courier” to find out about a person whose name was found on a document placed on the “Give and Take Table” at The Fountains. We agreed to do what we could.
The document, a 1928 leatherbound Archer High School diploma. The recipient was Lois Clow. Records at The Fountains do not give any clues as to who may have put the diploma on the table.
Recently the City of Archer, through the effort of Carol and Dudley McDowell received a grant from O’Brien County Community Foundation to purchase a display for all of the Archer High School and Archer Consolidated School senior pictures. Six years of graduating classes do not have pictures. Five of those years span from 1927 through 1930. Carol and Dudley made name cards of those graduating classes for the display. Married names of the ladies are included where known. Lois Clow became Lois Clow Bolan on the display.
Now the leatherbound diploma is returned to the graduates of Archer display. Perhaps a relative of Lois will make themselves known and the mystery of her diploma on a “give and take table” at a senior living community in Lakeville, MN will be revealed.