It's Saturday Night -
time for more Genealogy Fun!
Our mission from Randy Seaver of Genea-Musings
is to:
1) It's National Women's
History Month, so I'm going to use today's prompt from Lisa Alzo. What
education did your mother receive? Your grandmothers? Great-grandmothers? Note
any advanced degrees or special achievements.
My mother, Lela Nell Johnston attended many elementary
schools in Texas, Idaho, Oregon and California, until they moved to Walnut
Creek, California, and she attended Walnut Creek Grammar School until the
eighth grade, and then attended Acalanes High School for two years and Mt. Diablo
High School the last two years. She did not attend college. She was very artistic.
She painted and loved making crafts.
My maternal grandmother Pansy Louise Lancaster attended
grammar school and high school in Stephenville, Texas. She was athletic and
like playing basketball and softball. Later she played tennis and bowled. She
was a very good seamstress and did alterations as a living.
My paternal grandmother Anna Maria Sullivan attended school
in Anaconda, Montana until she completed high school, and then attended the Montana
Normal School. She was active in athletics, glee club, and yearbook. She taught
grammar school until she married and they moved to Los Angeles. After being
separated from her husband and moving her family to Napa, California, she went
back to school to be qualified to teach in California. She finished whatever
credential classes she needed at San Francisco State and then taught school in
Napa and Concord. She was also a CCD teacher.
I don’t know anything about my maternal and paternal grandmothers’ schooling. I assume they attended at least grammar school, and possibly high school.
I attended St. Peter Martyr School from first to third, Parkmead
Elementary to sixth, Parkmead Intermediate to eighth, and Las Lomas High
School. I attended California State University, Hayward and received a BS in
Biological Sciences. I returned later for a teaching credential and also a
Train the Trainer certificate. If I had the money (college is expensive now), I
would study history and geography and perhaps get a masters.
I love that Anna Maria Sullivan went back to school to finish teacher credential classes later in life. She was ahead of her time. :)
ReplyDeleteIt was probably a necessity. She couldn't teach in California without it.
DeleteVery cool that you have this 1952 BA diploma from your grandma! I see the diploma calls her "Anne" but you know her as "Anna." Mistake on the part of the college?
ReplyDeleteShe called herself Anne but was born as Anna.
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