By Norma Dittman
Fulda Free Press staff writer
Providing a Christian education for the youth has always been an extremely focused aspect of St. Paul’s Lutheran School, Fulda. That testament is evident as the school will celebrate its 125th anniversary on Saturday and Sunday, July 14th and 15th.
During the first part of June, St. Paul’s Lutheran Church announced that it would discontinue classes for first grade through sixth grade but would continue with preschool education for three and four year old students.
The festivities that have been planned will celebrate the lasting impact which St. Paul’s Lutheran School staff, parents, volunteers and church members have made upon all of the children, and their families, who have received some part of their education through the school during its 125 years.
The beginning of St. Paul’s Lutheran School was registered in 1887. This information was found in the Minnesota South District LCMS Archives where it states that the pastor for St. Paul’s Lutheran Church was M. V. Schneider. The entity was identified as one congregation, one school with nine children, eleven baptisms, and two marriages. Pastor Schneider came to Fulda in 1886 and left the Fulda area near the end of 1887.
The very first notation regarding the school is found in congregational meeting minutes from February 22, 1892. In those minutes, it states that “John Utz, John Becker, William Dierks and Pastor Maesse met with the Southwestern congregation to draw up By-Laws in an effort to join together as one congregation.”
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