Friday, January 8, 2021

Wednesday, January 8, 1936 - Geography, Fractions, and a Pig

 


"Today in Geo.[raphy] we had 41 questions. I got 100 in them. Mother and Dad salted down part of the half of the pig we got. Tomorrow in school we are going to have problems like this 

2     x     3
12 x 21
7 x 6

Just starting to learn fractions."


It's evident that Shirley was an intelligent girl who enjoyed school.  She was probably in the fourth grade here.  I happen to have the high school yearbook for her senior year in Coopersville, Ottawa County, Michigan, which actually belonged to my maternal uncle (Bob's brother-in-law) who was her classmate.  A quick look through it showed Shirley was very active in extra-curricular activities and was the Senior class secretary.  She obviously came by her love of learning at an early age.

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