School Report Card for Emma Sutorius
<p>This is the front page of the school report card of Emma Sutorius. A granddaughter of Swiss emigrants Gottlieb and Anna Schuetz, Emma was the first child of Dirk and Maria Sutorius. She married a recent emigrant from Germany (1908) Edo F. Harms in 1914. All three generations lived in Humboldt, Nebraska in close proximity with various relatives (Emma Sutorius's uncle John Schuetz lived right next door to her family according to the 1930 census).</p>
<p>While the Schuetz-Sutorius family attended a German-speaking church, Emma's school was English-speaking, as this report card testifies. Another interesting detail is that the card came out of a small printing shop in Falls City, Nebraska, showing that neither the structure, nor the form or even the color of the report cards was standardized.</p>
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Richardson County, Nebraska School District 38
Family of Bill Dean, Nebraska City History Harvest, 2010
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Richardson County (Neb.)
School Report Card for Lena M. Harms, 1925-1926
<p>This document comes from the Family of Bill Dean Collection and belongs to the generation of Bill Dean's parents. The school report card from 1925-1926 school year illustrates that the form for school reports has largely remained unchanged for the larger part of the 20<sup>th</sup> century. The subjects, however, reflect the skills deemed necessary for the school students in that era and include Physiology, Mental Arithmetic, Bookkeeping, and Agriculture. This curriculum would equip a student living in the rural Nebraska (Harms family comes from Humboldt) with the skills necessary to find employment in the local enterprises and agriculture.</p>
<p>Lena Harms was the eldest daughter of Edo and Emma Harms, German-Swiss Americans in Humboldt, Nebraska. Emma Harms's great-grandparents Gottlieb and Anna Schuetz came to Humboldt from Switzerland in 1870s and her both her grandmother and mother married emigrants from Germany.</p>
<p>For interviews and oral histories of this and other items please visit the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/HistoryHarvest?feature=watch">History Harvest YouTube Channel</a>.</p>
Richardson County, Nebraska Superintendent
Family of Bill Dean, Nebraska City History Harvest, 2010
1925-1926
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