Albert Lea Schools Reports
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School Report for the 1880-1881 Year
Albert Lea Schools
Teachers: High School, C. W. Levens; Grammar, Miss M. Hunter; 2d Intermediate, Miss C. G. Barron; 1st Intermediate, Mrs. M. Gunser; 2nd Primary, Mrs. E. A. Twichell; 1st Primary, Mrs. M. F. Drake.
The standing in scholarship of members of the high school, as determined mainly by thorough examinations at the close of the term, is as follows:
"A" Grade--Lucia Annis, 88; Frank Crane, 91; Lake France, 90; Frank Hibbs, 96; Sarah Pratt, 87; Ella Slater, 95; Fannie West, 92.
"B" Grade--Nettie Avery, 80; Bessie Blackmer, 92; Gorham Bunker, 70; Bert Brown, 81; Willie Crane, 78; Eddie Dwyer, 88; H. Drommerhausen, 85; Emmet Fenton, 87; Mamie Gates, 81; Julia Harm, 82; Belle Levens, 92; Cora Norton, 93; William Parker, 80; Burt Patrick, 73; Jerry Sheehan, 88; Haldor Sueve, 83; Flora Wilson, 90.
"C" Grade--Edith Annis, 87; Magnus Bergland, 83; Harry Brown, 78; May Cure, 99; Augusta Harm, 78; Harry Higgins, 77; Carrie Hall, 81; Anna Hathaway, 89; Mattie Jewell, 90; Lizzie Lamphere, 70; Charles McDonah, 76; Lizzie Martin, 91; Ole Olson, 81; Nettie Peterson, 90; Quincy Sprague, 85; Amelia Simonson, 80; George Tunell, 83; Irving Taylor, 80; Ralph Whitman, 84; Ida White, 92.
Irregular--Robert English, 65; William Hopkins, 82; Frank Scott, 66; Elbert Ostander, 90; George Savage, 87.
The following Grammar school scholars stood within five of the head of one or more of their repective classes, averaging about twenty members each. In these lists the relative merit of different scholars is indicated same by the order in which the names stand:
"A" Grade--Belle Morin, Minnie Kelley, Laura Batchelder, Inger Hanson, William Flint, Corena Abbott, Lena Janson, Thor Dale, Belle Balch
"B" Grade--Anna Bessinger, Anna Hibbs, Arthur Tyrer, Mamie Higgins, Lincoln Sergeant, Burt Greene, Charles Levens, Thomas Wiker, Sarah Bremen, William Jobe.
"C" Grade--Frank Bessinger, Fred Smith, Francis Dravez, George Pfeffer, Willie Bond, Oscar Peterson, Mabel Mills
Second Intermediate:
"A" Grade--Carrie Olsen, Willie Higgins, Olive Hathaway, Laura Partridge, Fred Hewitt, Arthur Twist.
"B" Grade--Mamie Sulzer, Olga Carlson, Anna Godley, George Sheehan, Frank Smith, Theodore Scotland, Dor. Hoising, Samuel Johnson, Myrta Lowe, Anna Colby, Mabel House
"C" Grade--Mina Blackmer, Victor Johnson, Ida Hauge, Herbert Skinner, Fred Mallery, Dean VanVechten, John Dwyer, Henry House, Emma Dudley, Nettie Bessinger.