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Showing posts with label Muncy. Show all posts
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Thursday, August 23, 2018

Della Kurtz-School Memories

As the school year begins, thoughts of what school like for our ancestors passed through my thoughts.  I remembered this collection of my Grandmother's school years.  The memories are in a scrapbook album, made by my cousin, Donnee Shaffner Stibal.  Her notes indicate that the original copies of the diplomas are in her files.  The diplomas were large and she states that the copy was reduced in size.  A picture of a rolled up diploma with a ribbon comes to mind, but I have no idea if that is how Della Kurtz received her diploma!


Della Kurtz was my grandmother who was born in Muncy, Lycoming, Pennsylvania on 29 October 1886.  She was the daughter of Emanuel D. Kurtz and Mary Etta Deewall.
Della married John F. Shaffner in 1913.


These are her report cards
Top Left:  Second Intermediate  1896-1897
Middle top:  Freshman
Top Right:  Sophomore 1902-1903
Bottom Left:  Junior  1903-1904
Bottom Right:  Senior  1904-1905


Her diploma from Department of Public Schools
1902




Della Kurtz 1905
Graduation

Donee wrote that Aunt Edith (Della's sister) gave the picture to Donnee when she graduated from High School



Della Kurtz's Salutatory speech in 1905


















 Della's High School Graduation



 Della's Diploma in 1905