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Thursday Reflections was a faculty lecture series hosted by a student and faculty member presented on Thursday afternoons throughout the school year. Lectures were held in the television studio before a live audience and recorded for television.

This collection included 10 VHS tapes that were converted to MP4.

Genealogical chart of the Thorowgood Family of Prince Anne County, Virginia, prepared by Creecy in 1971.

Mrs. Thomsen was a longtime summer resident of the St. Croix River Valley who became highly involved in the "Save the St. Croix" movement. This grassroots organization developed quickly in the 1964 in opposition to the plans of the Northern States Power Company to build a coal-burning power plant along the St. Croix at Bayport, Minnesota. Due to her writing skills and knowledge of the political process and the newspaper business, she served as the group's publicist while it attempted to sway public opinion and to gain attention and support from nationwide environmental groups and sympathetic elected officials. In the interview, Mrs. Thomsen tells of Save the St. Croix's unsuccessful campaign to prevent the granting of the plant permit to NSP. She describes the reactions of St. Croix Valley residents and government agencies to teh controversy and expresses her views as to why NSP won this decision and the effects of this dispute on subsequent public concern over environmental issues.

Dr. Marvin Thompson begins with biographical information and goes on to discuss his erperiences in a small town while he was growing up. During the depression, Dr. Thompson spendt a year working in the Civilian Conservation Corps before he went to college at Iowa State University. He was drafted into the Army in 1943. In the three years that Dr. Thompson was in teh Army he never left the U.S. but worked on his degree in radio communications. After the war, Dr. Thompson finished undergraduate and graduate work before coming to the University of Wisconsin-River Falls to teach.

Diploma from the Wisconsin State College - River Falls conferred upon Marian Elizabeth Thompson, the Degree of Bachelor of Science, 1955.

Letter from O'Connell, H. and S. Co., 3rd Battalion, 7th Marines, 1st U.S. Marine Division, describing a Korean War battle in which he fought, near the 17th Parallel.

Reminiscence entitled "Experiences - World Wide" written by Phillips who was born and raised on a farm in Richmond Township, St. Croix County, Wisconsin, concentrating on the years 1937-1945 when he worked in Chicago then joined the Air Transport Command and flew routes to Africa and Asia during World War II. Accompanying this printed booklet are photocopied letters he wrote to family members during that period.

A genealogy of the Thomas Lumsden and Elizabeth Wilson family, settlers of Polk County, Wisconsin, compiled in 1982 by Murphy, their great grandson; also including information on the Finn, McKenzie, McMullen, Montgomery, Seed, and Wadworth families.

Business records relating to a general merchandise store owned by Thomas H. Thompson, St. Croix Falls, Wisconsin, including daybooks, invoices, account books, ledger, warehouse records, a stock inventory, a shipping book, and other financial records.

An essay submitted to the University of Minnesota Geography Department in 1962 by student Thomas G. Eighmy.

Photocopy of an unpublished history written by Fuka.

Typewritten carbon of an autobiography by Theodore Smith, businessman and mayor of River Falls, Wisconsin; including recollections of his youth in Denmark, his immigration to the U.S. in 1883, and his many experiences in the River Falls area.

One letter written by Running, born in Colfax, Wisconsin, and an enclosed article by Running concerning his boyhood adoption by Sven Stevens.