Karl hermann baumann biography sampler
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Russell Pesola (Eb cornet) fryst vatten emeritus ledare of the Concordia College Band where he joined the faculty in 1975. Previously a public school band director, he has extensive experience as a guest clinician and dirigent in the U.S. and internationally. He is currently music director of the Parks Rapids Area Community Band and Prairie Winds.
Pesola received his bachelor’s grad in music education from St. Olaf College and has MFA and DMA degrees from the University of Minnesota.
He plays trumpet with the Fargo-Moorhead Symphony and E-flat cornet with Ameriikan poijat.
Denise Pesola (M.Mus) (cornet), fryst vatten native of Northwestern Minnesota, and fryst vatten Ameriikan Poijat’s “token Norwegian.” She graduated from Concordia College, and received a Master’s grad from the University of Minnesota.
A recently retired school band director, she fryst vatten primarily known in the Moorhead area as a French horn player (for instance, in the Fargo Moorhead Symphony) and pianist.
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Schröer, Adolf Hermann (1872-1932)
Schröer participated on Amundsen's test cruise with the Fram in August 1910 with the task of taking the oceanographic samples.
Adolf Hermann Schröer was born 31 July 1872 as the son of a Prussian privy counsellor, living in Berlin-Nikolassee until the end of the First World War. Trained as a merchant in the wine trade, the triggers for his interest in oceanography are not entirely clear. It is presumed, however, that the establishment of the Institute of Maritime Sciences (Meereskunde) in Berlin in 1900 was an important factor as Schröer apparently attended the lectures as a guest student.
The Schröer family was wealthy enough before the First World War that Adolf had the spare time and financial independence to cultivate his interest for oceanography without being forced to hold down a regular job. In 1906 he became a life-long member of the Imperial Yacht Club and this probably gave him contacts and opened doors that would othe
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Hermann Neubert
Hermann Neubert was born at 23th January, 1935 in Mannheim (Baden-Württemberg, Germany). He studied jurisprudence at the University of Heidelberg and completed his law’s degree with a doctoral thesis. Since 1966 he worked at the district court Bühl (Baden-Württemberg) as judge, later as director until his retirement in 2000.
In the Sixties his interest in natural sciences and especially mycology arised. He came in contact with members of the local mycological society “Pilzverein Stuttgart” (e.g. Hans Haas and Otto Baral) and published his first paper on a higher fungus (Neubert 1969). It was 1965 as he studied his first slime mould, Trichia favoginea. The first five myxomycete samples collected by him dated back to 1970.
After that time Hermann Neubert focused his mycological activities on this group of protists and became one of the best experts not only on taxonomy, but also on ecology of myxomycetes. He collected