Harris Peterson Honored at NWSA Reunion
Harris Peterson, an alumnus of the Northwest School of Agriculture (NWSA), has received the NWSA Distinguished Service Award for the year 2001. Peterson was honored at the annual NWSA reunion held recently at the University of Minnesota, Crookston (UMC).
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Peterson graduated from the NWSA in 1942 and completed the advanced year in 1943. Today he is the owner and CEO of Minn-Dak Growers, Ltd., a world-wide supplier of mustard, buckwheat, and confection sunflower ingredients to the food industry. Minn-Dak has facilities in Grand Forks, ND, Drayton, ND, Dickinson, ND, and Donaldson, MN.
The NWSA Distinguished Service Award was established in 1991 to recognize exemplary service to the NWSA Alumni Association. Peterson was recognized for his financial contributions, which allowed the construction of a gazebo on the UMC campus. A special marker inlaid in the base of the gazebo commemorates the U of M’s Northwest School of Agriculture, UMC’s precursor. The NWSA was a residential high school that operated from 1905 through 1968 on the campus that is now UMC. There have been a total of 5,433 NWSA alumni.
The Harris A. Peterson Gazebo is the anchor of a planned centennial park and garden. That project, to be completed in the spring of 2005, will commemorate the 100 years of educational service and outreach on the site that was established as the NWSA in 1905 and that is now the University of Minnesota, Crookston.
Posted 07/16/2001
Contact: Andrew Svec,
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