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45 years later, Bob Anderson’s first Commencement serves as a culmination of career
Bob Anderson addressed the Class of 2025 during a pair of May 9 ceremonies, encouraging them to appreciate their own journeys — whether or not they hitchhike along Highway 2 like Anderson did back in the day.
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- Bemidji State University Celebrates Graduating Class of 2025
- Commencement 2025: Backstage
- Commencement 2025: Mortar Board Gallery
- BSU Alumnus Robert Anderson To Receive BSU’s 2025 Distinguished Minnesotan Award
- Bemidji State University’s 106th Commencement, May 9 at the Sanford Center
- Snowfall Moves BSU’s 26th Annual Student Achievement Conference Online
- Nina Johnson Named 2025 Minnesota State Service Faculty of the Year
- BSU Nursing Student Andrew Agnes Becomes Army National Guard Sniper
- Dr. Eric Olson: Inspiring Through Performance and Education
- BSU Students Earn Judges’ Choice Awards at Chemistry Symposium
Beaver Athletics
- Two from Beaver Tennis earn CSC Academic All-District
- Beaver Tennis duo of Groen and Leshem earn All-NSIC Second Team in doubles
- Bemidji State announces dates for 70th season of Beaver Men’s Hockey
- Bemidji State breaks personal records at NSIC Outdoor Championships
- BSU heads to NSIC Outdoor Championships
- Beavers send-off seniors with first victory over Huskies since 2018
- BSU finishes Maverick Open and Cobber Open
- Beavers head to Mankato and Moorhead ahead of NSIC Championships
- BSU Baseball to celebrate seniors during final home series
- Schoepp earns All-NSIC First Team recognition
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45 years later, Bob Anderson’s first Commencement serves as a culmination of career
Bob Anderson addressed the Class of 2025 during a pair of May 9 ceremonies, encouraging them to appreciate their own journeys — whether or not they hitchhike along Highway 2 like Anderson did back in the day.
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Our alumni body of more than 50,000 Beavers started with just four students who earned their diplomas in June 1920: Cora Bernhard, Georgia Brown, Josephine Parker and Margaret Romens.
Two years later, the BSU Alumni & Foundation was formed on June 2, 1922, at Sanford Hall in conjunction with that year's graduation. Then an all-female body, it was first called the Bemidji State Teachers College Alumnae Association before being renamed to the Alumni Association in 1927. The BSU Foundation was founded in 1969 as a separate, nonprofit entity. On Feb. 1, 2016, the separate Alumni Association board and the BSU Foundation board merged to become a combined board for the Bemidji State Alumni & Foundation.
