Diplomas and Degrees

 

Among the stuff that I received belonging to Clara Kuck were all her various certificates of degrees that she received. They were all tightly rolled up like the hand drawn family trees but the cookie sheet and magnet trick allowed me to photograph them all for posterity. Above is her high school degree and below is another specifically for completing the curriculum in Latin.

After that, she evidently went to a local college first as you can see above and then traveled north to Minnesota where she attended Carleton College as well as you can see below.

Below is perhaps my favorite of them all from the Boston School of Expression where she got a degree in Public Reading, a lost art these days. I have dozens of newspaper articles of her doing various readings at different events and everyone always seemed happy to have such a performance. If I could only go back in time to listen to a few of them...

However, typed onto a piece of paper that is wrapped around the roll of diplomas is a list of various diplomas she received and according to it, I'm still missing a few. It lists that she also received a "Certificate of Life" diploma at Utah State Teachers College. She also lists a Teacher's Diploma and a Master's Degree that she also received in Boston. The final one I knew about and that was another "Certificate of Life" diploma that she received at California State College where she also taught in the latter part of her life. She is definitely the most educated person in my entire family tree.