ELWYN B. ROBINSON DEPARTMENT OF SPECIAL COLLECTIONS
CHESTER FRITZ LIBRARY
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA
GRAND FORKS, ND 58202
COLLECTION: OGL # 1436
DATES: undated
SIZE: 1 folder
ACQUISITION: The Clare Hedahl Diary was deposited in the Orin G. Libby Manuscript Collection by Dave Vorland, Office of University Relations, University of North Dakota, on September 16, 1998 (Acc.# 2002-2546).
ACCESS: Available for inspection under the rules and regulations of the Department of Special Collections.
Clare Hedahl was born on December 18, 1898 to O.S. and Ingrid Hedahl. She attended Fessenden High School in Fessenden, North Dakota, and was active in Girls’ Basketball and the school choir.
While a school teacher in 1921, Clare married Harold Bullis of Robinson, North Dakota. They farmed for a short time north of Robinson, before opening a confectionary and lunch room in Robinson. Clare served as a clerk for the Robinson School Board for several years. Both Clare and her husband were active in the Robinson Methodist Church- Harold as a lay minister and Clare as a Sunday school teacher and pianist. The couple had five children: Robert, Harold, Edith, Barbara, and Joan.
After her husband retired from being a rural mail carrier near Robinson in 1955, they moved to Arizona. Clare Bullis died in December 1985 in Arizona.
The Clare Hedahl Diary consists of a diary that she kept during the last part of her senior year at Fessenden High School, from January 1st through April 19th. Throughout the diary she wrote about the weather, her trips home on the freight train, and her course work. During her senior year, she studied Bookkeeping, English, Domestic Science, Sewing and History. In English, the class held debates surrounding the restriction of immigration into the United States by the implementation of a literary test. She also wrote about the Boys’ and Girls’ Basketball games and the school track meet.
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