This is my Mom’s 4th grade class in DeKalb, Illinois about 1923. She is on the far left.
Left row: Harriet Duncan, Ruth Gustafson, Elvin Carlson, ___, Ethel Shattuck (teacher). 2nd row from left: Roland Ritzman, Hypatia Mordoff, Alice __, Harold Anderson, Charles Wedburg.
3rd row from left: ____, Helen Krintz, Frank Gould, Edward Bloomquist,
4th row from left: ____, Louise Johnson, ___, ___, ___.|
5th row from left: Etola ___, Harry Johnson, Miriam Blomquist, Edith White.
Student teachers at the back.
This I Leave 
Love this picture. My first grade classroom (1956) was almost identical to this. All the desks were attached to the floor. Chalkboards around the room. Thanks for sharing.
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Thanks. I remember the chalkboards all around, but our desks were movable. Remember cleaning chalkboards and erasers?
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Yes, it was such a privelege. We took the erasers outside and pounded them together. Later, when I was a teacher, we had an eraser cleaner sort of like a vaccum cleaner that we would move the erasers across. I also remember the long yellow “teacher” eraser that was more spongy and only the teacher was allowed to use it.
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Yes, just pounded them together and breathed in all that chalk dust! I had forgotten the longer, foam rubber ones – they came later.
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I’m in love with this pic!!! And in Dekalb yet!
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It’s easy with a classroom of kids – too cute.
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Very!
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Very cool. Jamie
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And one of the few that Mom identified most of the people!
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Didn’t your (widowed) great-grandfather Claycomb marry a Shattuck? Sister to this teacher?
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Yes, Grandma Ve was Ethel’s sister – both teachers and/or administrators in the schools. You have a better memory for my family than any blood relative!! This would not be worth doing without you.
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