1960
The Gopher ceased publications for the most part in 1966, so that is the most immediate limitation we have in decrypting the increasingly unclear 1960s. When did the house change from a men-only fraternity-, military-, sports- and agriculture-centric household to the co-ed and more diverse co-op of today?
In case it wasn’t clear from previous volumes regarding the Fraternity Purchasing Association, it’s explicitly stated in The Gopher 1961 that:
Most of the members of FPA are the greek letter organizations and the co-op eating clubs.
— p351, The Gopher, Volume 74, 1961
In contrast to the 1940s, The Students’ Co-op has been reduced in University reputation from a proud founder of NASCL to “one of the eating co-ops” during the 1950s. Street-rep is hard to “timeline” but it seems somehow appropriate for our chaotically managed house. Still, in its own mind it remained a hot spot and a bargain:
Over half the people listed this year appear to have stayed in the house since 1959 or earlier: Barrick, Buscher, Daml, Knutson, Kubesh, Lacher, Lindskog, McConnell, Mittelstadt, Nistler, Olson and Winter. Patrick J. Morgan who first moved in 1951 may have even returned again for the second time, giving him a decade-long history with the house.
Elected officials included:
President: Raymond Knutson
Vice President: Lynn Winter
Secretary: Roger Butalla
Treasurer: Jerome Daml
—Directory of Student Organizations, 1960-1961
Here are some of the new members that joined in 1960:
Delta Kappa Phi
from The Gopher 1962
1961
Many co-opers stayed on a year. We have a Representative/President to the University in member Laurence Arthur Winter.
Vice President: Wade Heims
Secretary: Douglas Veum
Mgr: Jerome Daml
—Directory of Student Organizations, 1961-1962
It’s unclear what the cryptic “Mgr” means, but it was probably “Business Manager”, which has at times been synonymous with a compensated role of Treasurer/Financial Manager reporting finances to sponsor Midland, Co-operatives.
We have some pictures from 1961, including a picture of Raymond Vance Knutson and a picture of Gordon Lees Thurston and an unnamed friend, courtesy Jerry (Jerome) Daml.
Joseph Leon Van Wiel joined in 1961 but he and two others pictured on the same yearbook page would join him at the co-op the following year …
1962
President: Arthur Fellerman
Vice President: Dick Lacher
Secretary: Dale Ranta
—Directory of Student Organizations, 1962-1963
New co-opers appear:
 The Gopher 1963 |
 (Misspelled in 1962 as Glen Sjorlom) |
Jim Stordahl was one of the two Stordahl brothers that played for The Gophers hockey team. He is credited with 13 goals plus 8 goal assists The Gopher 1962 found worthy of mention. For more hockey pictures of the Stordahls, I recommend the 1962-1964 yearbooks.
courtesy The Gopher 1965
imagery assembled from The Gopher 1964
imagery assembled from The Gopher 1965
1963
Many co-opers stayed on a year.
President: [Everett] Grant Leff
Business Manager: David Sundberg
Adv: Philip Nistler
— Directory of Students Groups 1963-1964
Elections are listed as April, 1963. This may explain Ranta’s brother (also Ranta) later credited as the President. “Adv” could mean student/alumni advisor, since Nistler is not listed as a resident or a student. Was Nistler staying on beyond official student status? This could be more evidence that the co-op was disregarding official University expectations of student housing and exercising its autonomy to choose its own membership, unlike the recently demolished Winchell Women’s Cooperative Cottages.
It should be noted that “University Village Cooperative Association, Incorporated” is listed as “(inactive)”. Was this the women’s “cooperative cottages” from the 1930s-1950s? If so, it would create even more pressure on the Amigo Club to realize its privilege as a male-only co-op.
The Gopher 1965
This may be only tangential but M.D. Zeddies is shown here (standing on the left) in the meeting to merge Midland Cooperatives with Central Cooperative, Inc. (CCI).
Courtesy U of M archives
1964
President: Donald Ranta
House Manager: Dave Sundberg
— Directory of Students Groups 1964-1965
Hugh Bonner (above, maybe of Sigma Alpha Mu) appears to be one of the last co-opers to join that also appeared in The Gopher (1966). I couldn’t confirm more pictures of co-opers living here in 1964 but William Walte Andrusco (from Fort Frances, Ontario, Canada) and Stephen Earl Anderson (from San Francisco) both joined the University, and stayed at the co-op while studying Arts.
1965
President: James Lindell
Treasurer: Tom Hanlon
– Directory of Student Organizations, 1965-1966
We do get:
Business Administration
The Gopher 1966-1967
1966
Treasurer stayed on this time, always a wise move for the shifty co-op.
President: Tom Rognlien
Treasurer: Tom Hanlon
– Directory of Student Organizations, 1966-1967
Bearded Psychologist
This may be the last to join The Students’ Co-operative that also appeared in the penultimate The Gopher (Volume 80, 1966-1967). Appropriately, he sets a new record for photographed facial hair.
1967
This year only one name appears in the Directory of Student Organizations, a “SAB” (Student Advisory Board?) “Adv” (Advisor?) Bernard Coleman, with phone number 373-4158.
Bernard Malloy Coleman (a roughly 43-year-old graduate student from Birmingham, Alabama) does not list his residence at the house.
1968
The American Indian Movement formed this year in Minneapolis, leading to greater pressures on colonizers to recognize the stolen land situation. Black students occupied Morrill Hall, a building named for the act that violently pushed Dakota even further from their homelands. Protests against the seemingly endless Viet Nam war erupted.
Also, by 1968, NASCO was founded, superseding NASCL (of which the house was a charter member) and this formed much more explicit goals of egalitarianism in co-operatives around the country.
By 1975 the two first women would register the house as their address; by the late 1970s, we would see a population of one woman for every two men, or so. In the next decades should we be able to document some kind of clue to how this cultural shift took place? This year of intense music, drugs, sexual freedoms, struggles, losses and activism would be a logical “snapping point” for many inequities and tensions that had been building for centuries.
1969
This was arguably the year that a national “awakening” hit just about every corner of America, with pacifists getting wide news coverage, civil rights taking even more national stages, and beatniks and hippies in full swing. The relatively conservative Students’ Co-op must have seemed like an anochronism to some or a haven to others. We know the house protected protestors that at least sympathized with those that tore down the fence in front of the ROTC/SATC across the street.
We heard from Captain Tony, a wanderer and sometimes applicant to the house, that the government set up a helipad near the McDonald’s in Dinkytown, from which helicopters launched to gas protestors in the streets. He told me that his mother would hang out at the house, kind of living there, but probably only in the capacity permitted.
In the Directory of Student Organizations 1969-1970 The Students’ Co-op merely lists a contact number: 331-1708.
1960 Directory
26 found members from the University of Minnesota 1960-1961 Student/Staff Directory:
Dwight A Barrick (Ag63) (1851) 1721 University av se (Darwin) listed 1959
Robin L Berg (IT61) 1721 University av se, Fe 1-1078
Charles D Buscher (IT6ll 1721 University av se, Fe 1-1708 (Morris) listed 1959
Jerome J Daml (IT61) 1721 University av se, Fe 1-1708 (St Cloud) listed 1957-1959
Gerald F Ebensteiner (A62) 1721 University av se, Fe 1-1078 (St Cloud)
Arthur W Fellerman (lT63) 1721 University av se, Fe 1-1708 (Aitkin)
Wade R Himes (VMd63l (543) 1721 University av (Ray)
Lyle D Jordan (AM) 1721 University av se (Cyrus)
Raymond V Knutson (IT62) 1721 University av se, Fe 1-1708 (Rochester) listed 1959
Charles F Kubesh (VMd62) (558) 1721 University av se, Fe 1-1708 (Olivia) listed 1957-1959
Richard G Lacher (IT64) 1721 University av se, Fe 1-1706 (St Cloud) listed 1959
Thomas J Lindskog (IT61) 1721 University av se, Fe 1-1078 (Moab, Utah) listed 1959
John P Litchy (A82) 1721 University av Be
Fred F McConnell (IT61) 1721 University av se, Fe 1-1708 (Nome, Alaska) listed 1959
Gerald D Mittelstadt (IT61) 1721 University av se, Fe 1-1708 (St Cloud) listed 1956-1959
Patrick J Morgan (D62) 1721 University av se, Fe 1-1078 (Olivia) listed 1951(!)-1959
Richard A Nelson (D62) 1721 University av se, Fe 1-1078 (Northwood, Iowa)
Philip J Nistler (ITS) 1721 University av se, Fe 1-1078 (Eden Valley) listed 1958-59
James J Olson (IT61) 1721 University av se, Fe 1-1708 (Granite Falls) listed 1959
Duane L Paloranta (IT84) 1721 University av Be, Fe 1-1078 (Eveleth)
Robert C Richards (A62) 1721 University av se, Fe 1-1701 (Eveleth)
Stanley P Seifert (A64) Club Amigo, Fe 1-1708 (Wells)*
Frederick C Stewart (Gr) 1721 University av, Fe 1-1708 (Duluth)
Gordon L Thurston (Md62) 1721 University av se, Fe 1-1708 (Faribault)
Douglas E Veum (A64) 1721 University av se (Cyrus)
Lynn A Winter (IT6l) 1721 University av se (Detroit Lakes) listed 1959
*This might count as the last year the co-op is registered as “Amigo Club”. After this, the U of M Directories dispensed with manual address format and forced things into a more number data-like spreadsheet format, which would it seems eliminate “pet names” for residences.
1961 Directory
13 found members from the University of Minnesota 1961-1962 Student/Staff Directory:
JON DUANE DOLENCE
WADF ROBERT HIMES (“WADF” appears to be a typo of WADE)
KENNETH DEAN KERR
RAYMOND VANCE KNUTSON
RICHARD GRAY LACHER
RONALD ARTHUR MENZEL
RICHARD ALLAN NELSON
DENNIS GEORGE OATES
STANLEY PAUL SEIFERT
GORDON LEES THURSTON
JOSEPH LEON VANWIE
DOUGLAS EDWARD VEUM
LAURENCE ARTHUR WINTER (Representative of the Co-op)
It should be noted that the Directory lists “Students’ Cooperative, Incorporated, Laurence Winter, 1721 University Ave SE, FE 1-1708” under Cooperative Organizations (who was probably President) as well as specifically Mr. Knutson under Scholarship and/or Achievement as: “Chi Epsilon (Civil Engineering), Raymond Knutson, 1721 University Ave SE”
1962 Directory
24 found members from the University of Minnesota 1962-1963 Student/Staff Directory:
GREGORY HUGH FOLEY
PETER ALAN GLENNIE
WADE ROBERT HIMES
FAYETTE FLORENT. KRAUSE
NORBERT LEONARD KRIER
GERALD ALLEN LAIRD
RICHARD GRAY LACHER
EVERETT GRANT LEFF
THOMAS BARRETT MORSE
RICHARD EDWARD NICOLAI
FREDERICK CLAREN OLSON
DALE IRVING RANTA
ROLAND HERMAN RAEKER
ROBERT LOUIS SCHEIBEL
RICHARD LEE STENNES
GLEN LAVERN SJOBLOM (FORT THOMPSON, SOUTH DAKOTA)
JAMES CLAYTON STORDAHL
DAVID CARL SUNDBERG
TERRANCE CHARL. TISDELL
ALBERT JERALD VARNER
JOSEPH LEON VANWIE
DOUGLAS EDWARD VEUM
RICHARD JOHN VIDMAR
This is the first year that “Students’ Child Care Cooperative, 106 TSMa, Ext 3850” appears in the directory.
1963 Directory
23 found members from the University of Minnesota 1963-1964 Student/Staff Directory:
MICHAEL VINCENT CURRAN
PETER ALAN GLENNIE
ANDREW CHAR GOODRICH
THOMAS HAROLD HANLON
FAYETTE FLORENT. KRAUSE
EVERETT GRANT LEFF
JAMES ERIC LINDELL
REUEL ANTHON. MARTINSON (DAHOMEY)
MARVIN EDWARD MENZEL
RONALD ARTHUR MENZEL
THOMAS BARRETT MORSE
JAMES ARTHUR NELSON
THOMAS LEE OLCHEFSKE
FREDERICK CLAREN OLSON
JONATHAN FAIRFIE. ORMES
DONALD ELI RANTA
ROLAND HERMAN RAEKER
DAVID RALPH ROSSUM
DAVID CARL SUNDBERG
DOUGLAS EDWARD VEUM (CYRUS)
JAMES CURTIS VEUM (CYRUS)
ALBERT JERALD VARNER
1964 Directory
18 found members from the University of Minnesota 1964-1965 Student/Staff Directory:
ANDERSON STEPHEN EARL (SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA) in ARTS
ANDRUSCO WILLIAM WALTE (FORT FRANCES, ONTARIO, CANADA) in ARTS
HUGH WARREN BONNER
ALBERT WILLI. GOBLIRSCH
THOMAS HAROLD HANLON
DONALD WILLIAM LINDALL
JAMES ERIC LINDELL
RONALD ARTHUR MENZEL
RICHARD EDWARD NICOLAI
LEONARD GLENN OKRAY
FREDERICK CLAREN OLSON
DUANE ALLEN PERRIN
DAVID RALPH ROSSUM
ROBERT HENRY RUUHELA
RICHARD LEE STENNES
JAMES FRANK STODOLA
DAVID CARL SUNDBERG
It should be noted that “University Village Cooperative Association, Incorporated” is listed as “(inactive)”. Was this the “cooperative cottages” from the 1930s-1940s?
1965 Directory
22 found members from the University of Minnesota 1965-1966 Student/Staff Directory:
ALLAN DAVID GAVERE
RICHARD THOMAS GEIS
DONALD DWIGHT HANSON
JOHN STEVEN HERRON
JEROME CHARLES JUELICH
HELMUT REINHOLD LANGE
JAMES ERIC LINDELL
TIMOTHY EUGENE MALONEY
GEORGE DENNISO NEILSON
PHILLIP JON NICOLAI
ROGER WI PEKAREK
DUANE ALLEN PERRIN
THOMAS ROGNLIEN
DAVID RALPH ROSSUM
DAVID CHARLES RUUHELA
RICHARD JOHN RYAN
JAMES MICHAEL SEVERSON
STANLEY DAVID SHELTON (PERKASIE, PENNSYLVANIA)
CHARLES ANDREW WARNES
JOHN W C WEIGAND
JOHN WILLIAM WILKINSON
1966 Directory
15 found members from the University of Minnesota 1966-1967 Student/Staff Directory:
MARK WILLARD ELLEFSON
ALLAN DAVID GAVERE
DONALD DWIGHT HANSON
JEROME CHARLES JUELICH
TIMOTHY EUGENE MALONEY
ELDON REUBEN MATZ
RICHARD KRAG MEYERS
GEORGE DENNISO NEILSON
PHILLIP JON NICOLAI
DAVID CHARLES RUUHELA
WICKHAM GREGORY SMITH (WHITTIER, CALIFORNIA)
TUCKER JON SNYDER
RICHARD LEE STENNES
GEORGE THOMAS ZIRNHELT
This is the first year that “University Play center Parent’s Association, Muriel Katzenmeyer, 1203 Fifield, St Paul, 645-7485” appears under Co-operative Organizations perhaps due to absence of another co-op like University Village Cooperative Association, Incorporated
1967 Directory
19 found members from the University of Minnesota 1967-1968 Student/Staff Directory:
DONALD DWIGHT HANSON
GORDON ALAN HENRY
STEPHEN HENDRICKSON
RONALD GENE KITZMANN
BRIAN JAMES LOKKESMOE
TIMOTHY EUGENE MALONEY
RICHARD KRAG MEYERS
GEORGE DENNISO NEILSON
THOMAS VANHAR PETERSON
DAVID CHARLES RUUHELA
EDVIN HOMER JR SANDEN
DENNIS DEAN SCHROEDER
STANLEY DAVID SHELTON
JOSEPH IVAN SKOW
ROBERT CUSHMAN SKOW
RICHARD LEE STENNES
DAVID DONALD SUNDT
STEVEN ROBERT WILSON
1968 Directory
17 found members from the University of Minnesota 1968-1969 Student/Staff Directory:
PAUL LEE CHRISTIANSON
ARDEN DUANE DAVIS
BRUCE ADRIAN DJOCK
WILLIAM GE HENDRICKSON
DALE JOSEPH HERRON
STEVEN JOHN HOLMSTOEN
JEROME CHARLES JUELICH
STANLEY DAVID MAHONEY
MICHAEL FRANK MAILE
JAMES EARLE MARTIN
JAMES RICHARD PASSE
THOMAS MICHAEL ROHMAN
DENNIS DEAN SCHROEDER
STANLEY DAVID SHELTON
JOSEPH IVAN SKOW
RICHARD LEE STENNES
1969 Directory
17 found members from the University of Minnesota 1969-1970 Student/Staff Directory:
JAMES CHARLES CARTER
PAUL LEE CHRISTIANSON
JAMES KENNETH DEAN
DEAN RICHARD EVANS
DENNIS FELIX
GREGORY HAROLD FORD
WILLIAM GE HENDRICKSON
DALE JOSEPH HERRON
RONALD GENE KITZMANN
NILES KINNEY KVISTAD
JAMES EARLE MARTIN
JAMES RICHARD PASSE
DAVID FRED ROME
JOSEPH IVAN SKOW
DAVID DONALD SUNDT
TIMOTHY EDWARD TITUS
Does the low listed population reflect neglect to register? Different demands or benefits for members, such as no “doubling up”? Does it indicate a number of others living with these men unofficially? Perhaps a number of women?