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Collection: FND001 - SHSND Foundation - North Dakota Heritage Family Memorial Program
Series: Tribute
Folder: DIG
Item: 02810
Title: Everett C. Albers
Date: 1942 - 2004
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Inscription/Marks: 3/28/1942
Summary: “Everett Charles Albers completed his journey in the middle world on April 24, 2004” Everett Charles Albers was born to Albert and Hulda Albers during the great blizzard on March 28, 1942. He grew up on the family dairy farm near Hannover in Oliver County with his brothers Keith and Jim and his sisters Fayette and Linda. He worked hard to earn what he considered the privilege of attending school. He graduated from Dickinson State College in 1955 and completed his MA degree in English at Colorado State University in Fort Collins. He was at one time a Lutheran seminary student, a Peace Corps trainee, for a short time an ROTC Cadet, a construction worker and a long-term graduate student in the humanities; a reader, a questioner and a quester. Everett taught at Lake Region Commnity College in Devils Lake before becoming professor of humanities and English at Dickinson State College, where he served from 1969 to 1973. By encouraging them to read, to think about how literature and the humanities could make a difference in their lives, he influenced numerous students, many of whom remained friends until his death. And it was in Dickinson that he met Leslie Rae Kubik who became his wife in 1975. In 1973 Everett became the first executive director of the North Dakota Humanities Council, a post he held until his death. He and his wife settled in Bismarck where they raised their two children. Everett Albers was the founder of the modern day Chautauqua movement. Under his leadership the Great Plains Chautauqua Society has brought first person characterizations of historical writers and thinkers to countless communities in five states since 1980. Through this, a myriad of other programs, and through books and publications he wrote and produced, Ev worked hard every day in the belief that the humanities can make a difference in the lives of ordinary people. He was involved in publishing classroom newspapers on historical topics and in developing the Larry Remele Memorial Fellowship programs, and creating teacher institutes. Everett lived and worked at his belief that the humanities can make a difference in the lives of the people of the state he so loved. “Everett was one of the few humanities executives who at heart believed the humanities belonged to all the people, and not just the elite,” said his close friend, the author and scholar Clay Jenkinson, who has also been involved with the Chautauqua movement. State Historical Society of North Dakota director Merl Paaverud said Albers supported “people portraying people in history, and that, for me, really brought history to life.” “He was truly a friend of people who enjoyed learning about the past and about the history of North Dakota. We will miss him.” Of Albers, historian and author D. Jerome Tweton said, “He was not only my best friend, but one of the best friends North Dakota ever had. He personified the humanities spirit more than anyone I’d ever known in my life.” Rick Collin of Bismarck, a Humanities Council member, said, “Everett was the face of the humanities in North Dakota. And it’s going to be difficult to imagine our state without him.” North Dakota born poet, Thomas McGrath, wrote words that would make a fitting tribute to Albers, “You have enlarged us all and lightened our steps on the mountain.” After being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in September of 2002 and given three months to live, Everett did not give up. He lived another productive eighteen months working and writing daily on-line journal entries wherein he reflected on the people and experiences of his life, books and music, the great questions of all time, “Where have we been, and where are we going?” And also, is there sour cream raisin pie in the next life? Everett Albers will endure in our hearts and minds. Whenever we, as he did, look at our friends and family, we can exclaim in joy, in humility, in awe, and in gratefulness: “How could I have come so far? (And always on such dark trails!) I must have traveled by the light Shining from the faces of all those I have loved.” --Thomas McGrath Everett Charles Albers is survived by his wife Leslie, his children Otto (Bobbi) and Gretchen, his brothers and sisters, many nieces and nephews and a host of friends. hers and sisters, many nieces and nephews and a host of friends.
Red ID: FND_I_61921 Image ID: 513776 Image Notes: FND001 02810

Collection: FND001 Digitized Images from Collection
Title: SHSND Foundation - North Dakota Heritage Family Memorial Program
Date: -

Summary: The North Dakota Heritage Family Memorial Program is sponsored by the North Dakota Funeral Directors Association. The life stories of deceased North Dakotans are featured in an archvied collection. Current partners in the project are Eastgate Funeral & Cremation Services, Bismarck Evans Funeral Homes, Carrington and New Rockford Everson-Coughlin Funeral Home, Williston Fulkerson Funeral Home, Tioga Fulkerson Funeral Home, Watford City Fulkerson Stevenson Funeral Home, Williston Nero Funeral Home, Bottineau Parkway Funeral Service, Bismarck Springan Stevenson Funeral Home, Stanley Stevenson Funeral Home, Dickinson These funeral homes provide recent obituaries to the Foundation, where staff and volunteers format, edit and archive each memorial. The memorials are posted, and copies are sent to the family for their input and approval. The listing currently features more than 13,000 memorials, and is constantly updated as new memorials and histories are received.

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