Just a short note from a past student of the brick building located on University Drive South between Eighth and Ninth Avenues in Fargo. The building which currently houses the Woodrow Wilson High School--soon to be renamed Dakota High School--was in the time prior to Carl Ben Eielson Middle School being built and was named Agassiz Middle School.
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Not really sure why they changed the name from a lake whose very bed we are built upon and whose very name is emblazoned upon the fascia of that said brick building right above the second floor windows. It can clearly be seen by any person driving or walking by. Any reason given definitely does not hold water as that very lake is why we have the highly successful economic business and agriculture base we have (pun intended).
Mark Ferguson lives in Fargo.
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