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**BRAINERD PUBLIC SCHOOLS NOW HAS CONSTRUCTION ACTIVITY AT BRAINERD HIGH SCHOOL, THE NEW PERFORMING ARTS CENTER, NISSWA ELEMENTARY, THE NEW BAXTER ELEMENTARY, THE FORMER BAXTER ELEMENTARY, GARFIELD ELEMENTARY, LOWELL ELEMENTARY, HARRISON ELEMENTARY AND RIVERSIDE ELEMENTARY**.Īpproval for these forward looking educational investments came from the voters of Independent School District 181, which is approaching its 150th year of delivering educational services to children in central Minnesota. The missions of BPS Archives are to protect and preserve the history of BPS, its students, graduates, teachers and staff through the collection and display of BPS related artifacts, to make available to the public those artifacts consistent with best archival practices, to foster community and student interest in BPS student, graduate, teacher, staff and institutional history as a valuable, critical aspect of life, and to support the missions of BPS in serving its students and community. Further information may also be obtained by contacting John Erickson at 21. Gifts of artifacts about the people and history of BPS may be sent to John Erickson, BPS archivist, at, or by mail or delivery to BPS Archives at Washington Educational Services Building, 804 Oak Street, Brainerd, Minnesota 56401. No item, document, photograph, program – nothing – is too small or seemingly without archival meaning to assist BPS Archives in its obligations to protect and advance BPS history. While much looks the same on the outside, much is different, and much more yet is different on the inside. Take a tour around much of the perimeter of Brainerd High School and the Gichi-ziibi Center for the Arts connected to BHS, today, the day before the school year commences. In early October, these extraordinary BHS graduates will stand before the BHS Classes of 20, who can see them today and who can be them tomorrow.īrainerd Public Schools Archivist/Curator (volunteer)īRAINERD PUBLIC SCHOOLS, its 6,300 students and 1,000 faculty and staff, open the 2021 - 2022 school year tomorrow, September 7, 2021. It is said that, with respect to role modeling of older women for younger women, “If she can see her, then she can be her.” And how true that is.

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This aspirational consequence of our students witnessing the Hall of Fame induction compliments the in-class BHS appearances to be made by each inductee during Homecoming Week: Up close opportunities allowing students literally to reach out and touch these Hall of Famers.Įlsa (Hasch) Elsa Garrison (1990) is a world class professional sports photographer with literally dozens of Olympics, World Series, Super Bowl and other championship credits in her resume, including the iconic Kobe and Gianna Bryant photograph Jessica (Kramer) Ryan (1990) is an enrolled member of the Brotherton Indian Nation, lawyer, judge and advocate for Native American children and families General Mark Ness (1968) is a retired Air Force pilot who flew evacuation flights out of Saigon, commanded the Minnesota Air National Guard and was a leading Northwest Airlines pilot and pilot trainer and, Elizabeth (Nolan) McGowan (1938), now deceased, was a journalist, including when women were not, throughout her life, and in her later years also was a “senior advocate.” The Gichi-ziibi Hall of Fame ceremony clearly allows our students to see, hear about and learn what people, who walked the same hallways as our students are now walking, have done with their lives upon graduation from the school our students share with each of them. The Hall of Fame, with its emphasis on education, directly teaches our students that there are, indeed, “prophets” who we can recognize as being among us, having come from our common roots in our common land. It is said that a prophet cannot be recognized within a prophet’s own land. While it is now in its third decade, this Gichi-ziibi ceremony will be the first time Hall of Fame induction will occur in the presence of so many of our students, who will hear about and see these remarkable graduates who come from among us. The Hall of Fame is an important educational component of BPS learning. In early October, in front of approximately 600 Brainerd High School juniors and seniors, Brainerd Public Schools will induct four graduates into its Distinguished Achievement Hall of Fame at a ceremony in the Gichi-ziibi Center, bringing Hall of Fame membership to approximately 80 from perhaps 30,000 who have graduated over the almost 150 years of Brainerd public education. 'The Distinguished Achievement Hall of Fame: Prophets in Our Own Land'

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