Jocks, Joseph

Progress card of Joseph Jocks, a member of the Mohawk Nation, who entered the school on July 1, 1905.

Student file of Joseph Jocks, a member of the Mohawk Nation, who entered the school on July 1, 1905 and ultimately departed on April 8, 1914. The student did not attend the school continuously, but left and reentered. The file contains student information cards, financial transactions, a returned student survey, a physical record, trade record…

Student information card of Joseph Jocks, a member of the Mohawk Nation, who entered the school on July 1, 1905 and ultimately departed in 1914. The card indicates Joseph was living in Caughnawaga, Canada in 1912 and in New York, NY in 1913 before returning to the school to graduate in 1914.

These materials include correspondence regarding a request from Joseph Jocks to re-enroll at the Carlisle Indian School to complete is original period of enrollment after being sent home due to a change in policy. Jocks request was granted.

These materials relate to tension between Superintendent Moses Friedman and mathematics teacher Roy L. Mann. There is a clipping from The Carlisle Arrow vol. 10, no. 3 (September 19, 1913) about Mann being made advisor of YMCA, an affidavit from Mann where he answers questions posed by Inspector Linnen, and correspondence written by…

Addressed to Commissioner Sells and signed by 55 student athletes, this petition asks that school athletic director Glenn Warner be removed for his position due to his poor moral character and conduct. The petition includes nine different critiques ranging from Warner's use of "profane and abusive language" to his practice of suppressing…

Program for the 1914 commencement exercises of the Carlisle Indian School. The program includes student performances, the names of graduating class and students who were awarded industrial certificates, and the class motto and colors.