A report card from 1915-1916

A legend in our family is the story about mom going to High School in Buckman.  She said the nuns only taught freshman and sophomore classes, and only in alternate years, so she was a sophomore first and a freshman second.  That would have been 1931-32 and 1932-33. (Mom finished HS in St Cloud, at Cathedral, while she worked for board and room with a local family).


Irene Janson, mom's cousin three-times-removed, attended St Michaels Parochial School (1st year) in 1915-16 when she was 14, about the year this photo was taken...

Sr Waltrudis seems to have been a tough marker--but then, just look at the list of subjects taught, beside the fact that report cards came out monthly--whew.

I've left these two scans large so you can examine them better when you click the pic.  Oh, and don't miss the didactic missive "TO PARENTS".  Evidently the nuns knew best how to raise good Catholic kids.