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Eva Lena Shurtlieff Jansen
4 Aug 1901 – 19 Nov 1995
| Birth | 4 Aug 1901 |
| Death | 19 Nov 1995 |
| Cemetery | Mount Hope Cemetery Springview , Keya Paha County , Nebraska , USA |
| Added by | Kay Brett on 29 Jul 2006 |
| FaG | https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/14947897 |
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Treasured teachers Argus Leader - Sioux Falls, S.D. Author: Jill Callison Date: Aug 21, 2006 Start Page: D.1 Section: Life Text Word Count: Caring, interested role models give students fond memories Unforgettable teachers do more than diagram sentences, explain compound fractions, lecture on the periodic table and assign essays. They dry tears, evoke laughter in the classroom, instill self-worth in their students and listen to what their students are saying, even when a youngster can't put it into words. As students in Sioux Falls head back to school today and area teachers make the last preparations for the new school year, we asked readers to reflect on the most memorable instructors they had. Here in the Life section are many of the responses we received. Eva Shurtlieff, Sporwein school My first teacher, Eva Shurtlieff, taught the Sporwein school, which sat at the crossroads on the northwest corner, 3 miles west and 3 miles north of Dallas, S.D., in 1924. She was my first and always remembered teacher. This small structure had a storm front for coats and overshoes, three windows on the east and west sides and a potbellied stove, which teachers needed to tend besides sweeping the floor and washing the blackboards. In our pioneering home were only a German Bible and medical book. I hadn't ever used a pencil or crayon. Experts today would predict such a 6-year-old who had had no preschool or kindergarten would not succeed. However, our German father, in his native language on long winter nights, told us the fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm. Unknowingly, he had provided us with "reading readiness." Dear, wonderful Miss Shurtlieff, with flash cards to teach us the alphabet, wall charts to teach sounding out words, learning to read was logical and assured. In March of my second grade, we moved to another farm and school, but had I no more schooling, I would still have become an avid reader. Isn't it amazing in that crude building on the prairie, pupils learned to read in primary grade? Today, at times, statistics reveal that a substantial number of high school graduates struggle. To me, teachers are most important, not administration, buildings, unions, etc. Miss Shurtlieff (Jansen) would be over 100, and I last was privileged to see her in 1969. Erna H. Ziegenbalg Brookings
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- Mabel Mildred Shurtlieff Schulz 1898–1987
- Myrtle Letitia Shurtlieff Manzer 1899–1989
- Edith Frances Shurtlieff Jelinek 1903–2001
- Bessie Alice Shurtlieff Gaskill 1905–2005
- Robert Cyrenus Shurtlieff 1907–1973
- Dorothy Ann Shurtlieff 1909–1916
- Walter Wayne "Kye" Shurtlieff 1917–1995
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