The UND hockey team and all of its fans are flying high.
Meanwhile, the brick football stadium that went up at UND in 1927 is going down brick by brick. While those in charge look ahead to office and other facilities, there are those who mourn the loss of the historic presence of the stadium. It was dedicated way back then to the university’s World War I dead and to Webster Merrifield.
In his "History of the Northern Plains," Louis Geiger wrote that pledges made in good will in the 1920s became a source of some ill feelings during the Depression years. But he said the immediate and marked rise of attendance at football contests appeared irrefutable justification for the expenditure.
Before 1927, he wrote that the largest crowd ever assembled for a North Dakota football game was fewer than 1,500. Two years later, a crowd of 7,200 produced a revenue of $6,100.
Zooming along
Then, as now, time marches on. If you can’t get together, you can Zoom. And more and more gatherings are zooming. So I sat at home as a guest at this week’s Tuesday morning meeting of the South Fork Lions club. Though they have been meeting by Zoom, they will meet this coming Tuesday in person at the VFW Club in East Grand Forks. There they will have a room large enough for social distancing.
The club with Duane Hafner as president stays right up to date on projects using Zoom. With the instruction of Roger Johnson and Joel Medd, I was in my own home and at the meeting. Members were showing up as the meeting progressed. There was a lot of needling going back and forth among the members in their own homes. Nate Espinoza was introduced as a guest. Joe Sowokinas read the devotions. Tom Saddler won the door prize.
Anna Rosburg, general manager of the Alerus Center, presented an overview of the activities during this pandemic. She said there have been far fewer events since the coronavirus moved in with some outdoors. She talked of the drive in movies and other outside events. And she told of the turf floor for football being used all over the building.
Ask Marilyn
Q. What is the best news you’ve heard this week?
A. They hired Mallory Bernhard as permanent basketball coach for UND women.
Q. What’s going on at Red Ray Lanes this weekend?
A. The park district is holding its Lucky Strike bowling – a mother and son event. It’s an annual event of the park district which also sponsors a dance for girls and their dads. The Red Ray lanes are open every day of the week except for Christmas. There are 14 leagues with four members on most of the teams. There are 24 lanes. Bowling, long gone from many cities, seems to stay in style around here.
Gerri and Bruce
Cheerful people of the week: Gerri Solberg and Bruce Brierley.
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