Organizers of the Dakota Memories Oral History Project, in cooperation with Prairie Public Broadcasting, will air a new radio program titled "German-Russian School Memories” Thursday, Oct. 14, at 3 p.m. and 7 p.m. The program will feature a variety of vivid memories about grade school including recess games, traveling to school, teachers, language barriers and the one-room schoolhouse. The narrators grew up on the Northern Plains in the regions of South Dakota, North Dakota and Saskatchewan.

North Dakota Superintendent of Public Instruction Wayne Sanstead added commentary, providing context for the memories with his knowledge of education on the Northern Plains.

Public interest in documenting and preserving German-Russian ethnic identity inspired the launch of the project in 2005. Since then, organizers have traveled the Northern Plains, gathering stories and documenting family relationships and childhood memories of second and third generation Germans from Russia.

The NDSU Libraries’ Germans from Russia Heritage Collection and Prairie Public provide major funding for the program. A CD of the radio program will be available for $20. To pre-order the CD, contact Acacia Stuckle, special collections associate, at 1-6596 or acacia.stuckle@ndsu.edu.

The program can be heard on 90.5 FM in Bismarck, 89.9 FM in Dickinson, 91.7 FM in Devils Lake, 91.9 FM in Fargo, 89.3 FM in Grand Forks, 91.5 FM in Jamestown, 88.9 FM in Minot and 89.5 FM in Williston.

The Dakota Memories Oral History Project is a privately funded project sponsored by the NDSU Libraries’ Germans from Russia Heritage Collection. For more information, contact the NDSU Libraries’ Germans from Russia Heritage Collection at 1-6596 or visit www.ndsu.edu/grhc/dakotamemories.