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Dr. Charles R. Sattgast - Former President of Bemidji State University |
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Born: 26 January, 1899 in Mount Vernon, Illinois | |
| Bachelor's Degree - Southern Illinois University | ||
| Master's Degree - Stanford University | ||
| Ph.D. - Teachers College, Columbia University | ||
| Served as President of B.S.U. from 1 February, 1938 until his death on 24 March, 1964. He was absent for military service from 1943-1946. | ||
| In 1959 the Minnesota State Legislature passed a bill for the construction of a new science laboratory and classroom building. By April, 1962 the building was completed and named the Charles R. Sattgast Hall of Science. The cost to construct Sattgast Hall was $ 1,080,000. | ||
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Excerpt from Dr. Arthur O. Lee's History of Bemidji State University, College in the Pines "Sattgast, a big man physically, was also a dynamic personality; he nearly always spoke with force and gusto. In his years as president, Sattgast led the school in some of the worst times during World War II, and some of the best times in the early 1960's. His initial year 1938, found the college with an enrollment of less than two hundred and a faculty of twenty five; by his death in 1964, the enrollment had reached two thousand five hundred, the faculty one hundred twenty five, and the school was the fastest growing college in Minnesota in terms of percentage increase in students." |
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