Susan Twiggs Student File

Susan Twiggs Student File

Student file of Susan Twiggs, a member of the Sioux Nation, who entered the school on October 20, 1902 and ultimately departed on June 5, 1909. The student did not attend the school continuously, but left and reentered. The file contains a news clipping, student information cards, an application for enrollment, a progress/conduct record, and a report after leaving indicating Twiggs was at home in Wade, North Dakota in 1910.

In school documentation Susan Twiggs' name is also spelled Susan Twigg. Her married name is Susan Twiggs Henderson (Mrs. Gus Henderson).

 

Students Taking the Oath of Office

Format
Photograph, Reproduction
Repository
Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections

The caption reads: TAKING THE OATH OF OFFICE

The printed note reads: Child citizenship is effective for producing right conditions among children and those civic habits which will insure faithful adult citizenship.

Our country needs it in every school, for its defense from mobs and riots instigated by ignorance of our institutions, on the part of our newly arrived populations.

This image appears in Red Man vol. 4, no. 2 (October 1911): 58.

His Honor the Mayor is Presented with his Official Badge

Format
Photograph, Reproduction
Repository
Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections

The caption reads: HIS HONOR THE MAYOR IS PRESENTED WITH HIS OFFICIAL BADGE

The printed note reads: This Russian-Jew boy, less than one year in America, was elected by more than two thousand little citizens to be their chief magistrate. His executive ability proved to be excellent and great good came to the little Republic under his administration.

Citizens Discussing a Problem of Government

Format
Photograph, Reproduction
Repository
Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections

The caption reads: CITIZENS DISCUSSING A PROBLEM OF GOVERNMENT

The printed note reads: In any average public school, whatever the proportion of foreign born children, a large majority favor fair dealing and right conditions, and when given the privilege to govern themselves and shown how to legislate and carry their laws into execution, at once put a stop to cigarette smoking, fighting, profanity, hazing and all kindred evils. 

This image appears in Red Man vol. 4, no. 2 (October 1911): 57.

Mary Lamotte Student File

Mary Lamotte Student File

Student file of Mary Lamotte, a member of the Menominee Nation, who entered the school on December 11, 1891 and departed on June 15, 1892. The file contains student information cards, a returned student survey, a former student response post card, and a report after leaving indicating that Lamotte was married and living in Keshena, Wisconsin in 1911.

In school documentation Mary Lamotte's married name is Mary Grignon (Mrs. Guss C. Grignon or Mrs. Augustus Grignon).

Citizens Will Not Tolerate Truancy

Format
Photograph, Reproduction
Repository
Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections

The caption reads: CITIZENS WILL NOT TOLERATE TRUANCY

The printed note reads: All efforts for years by the New York City school authorities could not reduce the average daily number of unexcused absences in a certain large school below about 25. Within two weeks after the organizing of their School Republic, the children themselves reduced it to an average of two.

This image appears in Red Man vol. 4, no. 2 (October 1911): 57.

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