|
Our dedicated teachers:
Oh,
you obviously think fairly well of those underpaid Chicago Public School teachers of the 1950s....
they
were a pretty dedicated lot and even though you think that you didn't apply yourself
you must have gotten something out
of your time there
maybe it wasn't all out of a book or off a blackboard
but I guarantee you that they gave you some
values and principles
and probably some reasoning skills and common sense................
you and I had a nice career.......................and
without a college education...
and all we had to fall upon was that kick-start that Miss Mueller, Miss Carroll,
Miss Wehrle
or whoever it was, gave us.
look back and enjoy, and savor the retirement
Here's to Jahn,
the old neighborhood, may it, they, them....
forever be a special place, a treasure within our minds.
(exurbs from a recent letter between Jahn classmates)
|
| photo courtesy of Ms Marlene (Wehrle) Frankel |
|
| 1960 Jahn Faculty |
Back Row: Evelyn Farr, Vivian O'Donnell, Beatrice Stone, Mary Ley, LaDonna Rupiriski, Sue Gethner, Alfhild Kaut,
Ken Brandt
Row 2: Georgia Loose, Elane Poltrock, Lillian Devine, Miriam Mueller, Marlene Wehrle, Ann Klein, Grace Carroll
(assist. principal), Trudy Lampert
Seated: Bernice Waiteman, Lilian Grant, Evelyn Waehner, Violet Mau (principal), Marie Budlong, Minda Esterman,
Marie Egan.
| 1979 photo courtesy of Ms. Frankel |
|
| Ms. Marlene (Wehrle) Frankel |
| unknown date courtesy Ms. Frankel |
|
| gym class at Jahn |
| 1983 photo courtesy of Ms. Frankel |
|
| On bacony looking North-Factory on Rosco in backround |
You can see Burley School over Ms. Wehrle's left shoulder in the color photo taken on
the fire escape balcony just outside the gym.
| 1960 |
|
| Grace Carroll |
| 1965 |
|
| Beatrice Schultz |
| 1956 |
|
| Edith P. Smolak |
| 1952 |
|
| Mrs Grace Warner |
July 23, 1958: Miss Grace Carroll and Miss Miriam Miller
were the special guests of Alderman Charles Weber
at a city council meeting. (Booster)
| 1960 |
|
| Miriam Mueller |
| 1960 |
|
| Georgia Loose |
| 1952 |
|
| Miss Anna Flemming |
Miss Anna Flemming
retired in 1952 after 35 years
of teaching second grade.
Jahn school was a 9 year old
new building when she started.
Do you have a favorite teacher? Do you have a story to tell? Were you inspired? Let us know and
we will share it with other Jahnites.
| photo courtesy of Ms Frankel |
|
| 1965 Jahn Faculty |
FEB 1965 Jahn
Faculty
Top Row: Shirley
Sonies, unk, Elizabeth Ruthmiller, Mary Ley, Diane Meyers, Trudy Lampert, Barbara Rutalla, Violet Schroeder, Marlene Frankel,
Genivieve McGowan
Middle Row: Georgia
Loose, Marie Egan, Lilian DeVine, Beatrice Stone, Elaine Poltrock, Grace Carroll, Beatrice Schultz, Miriam Mueller, Evelyn
Farr, Harriet Rubenstein
Seated: Rochell
Egger, unk, Rita Harper, Frances Knophurst (principal), Violet Stearns, Vivian O’Donnell, Agnes Ojama
**********************************************************
Evelyn R. Farr
March 09, 1999
Evelyn R. Farr, 92, a music teacher in Chicago for 44 years, died Friday of complications from a stroke at the Long Grove
Manor nursing home. Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., Ms. Farr moved to Chicago in 1912 and lived in the same house on Tripp Avenue
until 1996, when she moved to Long Grove Manor. She graduated from Normal Teachers College at the age of 20 and spent her
career teaching music at Linne and Jahn Elementary Schools on the North Side. In 1943, she received a bachelor's degree in
music education from Northwestern University, where she received a master's degree in music education the following year.
After her retirement, Ms. Farr continued to volunteer at the schools until she was 75, coordinating choral performances at
the schools' holiday concerts and graduation ceremonies. "She was just absolutely loved by her students. She just had a great
tenderness for kids and wanted to do everything and anything that she could (for them)," said her niece, Elaine Steele. Ms.
Farr was never married.
Thanks to Ed Innis for providing a copy of this obituary
|
