Cathy A. Langemo

10/30/2007: Award-winning NFL player James “Jim” LeClair was born on Oct. 30, 1950, in St. Paul, Minn. He was an outstanding football player and wrestler at South St. Paul High School in 1966-1968.

10/23/2007: The name for Sanish, North Dakota, founded in 1915 when the Max branch line ended there, came from the Arikara word meaning “real people” or “object.”

10/22/2007: For nearly 100 years, the Benedictine women of the Sacred Heart Monastery have found a spiritual oasis on the North Dakota prairie, becoming an independent monastery on this date in 1916.

10/18/2007: One of the greatest rodeo announcers of all time was born on this date in 1907 near Cavalier, North Dakota.

10/17/2007: Evan Edwin Lips, former three-term mayor of Bismarck, was born on this date in 1918. A legacy for Bismarck and North Dakota, Lips was dedicated to community service.

10/15/2007: Father Elwood Cassedy died on this date in 1959. He was synonymous with the Home On The Range near Sentinel Butte, North Dakota, which he founded in 1949.

10/11/2007: The 12-foot high bronze statue of Sakakawea, with her baby son, Jean Baptiste Charbonneau, on her back, greets visitors to the State Heritage Center, Bismarck.

10/3/2007: In October 1878, Stanley Huntley and Marshall H. Jewell became owners of the Bismarck Tribune. They had arrived in Bismarck that fall, stopping on their way to the Black Hills. So excited were they about the business potential in Bismarck that they decided to stay.

9/27/2007: Robert H. Bahmer served as the fourth archivist of the National Archives.

9/19/2007: Prolific North Dakota poet Thomas McGrath died on this date in 1990. Born near Sheldon in 1916, he was called “our Homer and Sophocles” by Everett Albers, former director of the North Dakota Humanities Council.