Fargo, North Dakota
Oak Grove Seminar was started in the fall of 1906 and the following year will thus be its tenth school year.
The desire for a Christian School for young women had been felt a long time and it became resolved at the Free Church's annual meeting in Battle Lake, Minnesota that a girl’s school debt was established. The schools objective is to give its students a practical and at same time Christian education. Parents can send their children there and know that they are under Christian influence.
Oak Grove Seminar is the only school of its sorts among our people in this part of the Northwest, and so they have a large territory.
The school’s population has grown steadily. The student enrollment last winter was 134, the largest in the school’s history.
This Students come from North and South Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Montana and Canada.
In incremental number the students have done their requirements in a practical interior and crowded modern school building. The school managers have also worked persistently for the last few years to assemble the means for a new building. The plan is to work out a resolution to build in the summer, which $25,000 can ensure if received before the end of the school year.
Here is the opportunity for wealthy people to help a good cause. If the debt is forgiven, the school debt will stop being the weight for a shortage of rooms.
The school educates teacher for common school and religious School. It teaches household skills and music.
Source: Norwegians and Norwegian Homes in America by Hans Jervell - 1916 - Page 183