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A newspaper account of a May 1974 meeting of the ISD 199 Inter-Cultural Education Advisory Committee reported on the title question, posed by community member Mary Brooks, a Black woman who asked the district why it had not yet hired any staffers of…

Kevin McNamara worked as Building and Grounds Director for Inver Grove Schools for 34 years. In this interview, he discusses the many challenges of managing the district's properties, the closures of schools and construction of the new middle school,…

Despite growing up in South St. Paul (whose baseball program he discusses in relationship to the newly-formed Simley High School), Mike Murr became a Simley stalwart, teaching social studies for nearly five decades. In this interview, he discusses…

Leslie McKenzie served as a science teacher and, later, principal of Simley High School from the school's opening through 1985. This interview discusses his time spent teaching, especially with events like the Science Fair, and his changing role as…

Oral history taken with Simley High School alumnus and longtime social studies teacher and boys' hockey coach Dennis Schueller. Interview discusses growing up in Inver Grove Heights, sports at Simley High School, and Schueller's long career in…

A photograph of the former Salem Hills one-room schoolhouse after it had been turned into the Waldhauser family home.

A photograph of the Salem Hills one-room schoolhouse (District #3), built in 1861 and used through 1953, when the new Salem Hills Elementary School was built.

An account of the former Salem Hills schoolhouse, District 3, being renovated into the family home of Kenneth and Margaret Waldhauser.

A photograph, taken from Lois Glewwe'sHistory of Inver Grove Heights, of the two-story, four-classroom brick schoolhouse built for the residents of Inver Grove village in 1882.