Arthur “Brownie” Larson was born in Rockford, Illinois. He enrolled in the Augustana Academy in 1914, and took a brief break to serve in the Navy during World War I. He returned to Rock Island and attended Augustana College from 1918 to 1922. Larson was a member of the Phrenokosmian Society, the Foreign Missionary Society, the Rockety-I staff, and the Lyceum Board. He served as the vice-president of his class in 1919 and 1920, was on the Student Council in 1920 and 1921, and served as chairman of the Senior Banquet Committee. Larson was an early member of the Omicron Sigma Omicron fraternity and on the varsity football team from 1919-1922. He graduated in 1922 with a Bachelor’s Degree in history. Larson married Mae Johnson (Augustana ’23), and they had one daughter, Carol. Larson worked for one year in a school in Manluis, Illinois, before moving back to Rockford. There he taught history for fifty-one years and served as the head of the Social Studies Department of the Theodore Roosevelt Junior High School for thirty-seven years. He served as president of the Rockford Federation of Teachers, and as the vice-president of the Rockford Teacher’s Credit Union. In 1974, Larson received an Outstanding Service Award from the Augustana College Alumni Association, for his work as the 1922 class representative and as a member of the Alumni Board of Directors. |
The Collection on Arthur Larson contains records from the Development Office, including photographs, programs, correspondence, newspaper clippings, and a plaque. |
The collection is arranged into the following series:
Series I. Papers, 1963-1974 and undated
This series contains correspondence, a program, newspaper clippings, alumni biographical forms, and photographs.
Series II. Artifact, 1974
This series contains Larson’s Outstanding Service Award.
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