{"id":2525,"date":"2008-05-15T00:01:52","date_gmt":"2008-05-15T07:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/15\/gee-mom-howd-you-get-so-smart\/"},"modified":"2008-05-15T00:01:52","modified_gmt":"2008-05-15T07:01:52","slug":"gee-mom-howd-you-get-so-smart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/2525","title":{"rendered":"Gee, Mom, How'd You Get So Smart?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I know very little about my mother’s education, except that she attended public elementary and high school in Worcester, Massachusetts.<\/p>\n

I don’t know the names of the schools she attended or what her favorite subjects were. I do know she had an excellent command of the English language and an aptitude for mathematics. She also\u00c2\u00a0possessed an incredible attention to detail.<\/p>\n

I do have two school photographs of her. I believe the first was taken on 06 Oct 1936, meaning that she was 14 years old and probably in the 8th grade.<\/p>\n

\"Jennie<\/a><\/p>\n

Jennie Niedzialkoski\u00c2\u00a0in Elementary School – 1936<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

SOURCE: Jennie Niedzialkoski in Elementary School – 1936 (Worcester, Worcester County, Massachusetts). Photographed 06 Oct 1936.<\/p>\n

The second photo was probably taken upon her graduation from high school, meaning that it was taken in about 1940.<\/p>\n

\"Jennie<\/a><\/p>\n

Jennie Niedzialkoski in\u00c2\u00a0High School – about 1940<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

SOURCE: Jennie Niedzialkoski in Elementary School – 1940 (Worcester, Worcester County, Massachusetts). Photographed about 1940.<\/p>\n

Sometime, I’ll have to ask my aunt and uncles about my mother’s education. I suspect they’ll remember. After all, they probably attended the same schools she did.<\/p>\n

In the 1940s, after graduating from high school, my mother worked for Graton & Knight Company in Worcester. Her job was variously described in the Worcester City Directories as Clerk, Computer Operator, and Keypunch Operator. I don’t know what business the firm Graton & Knight was in or why they would need to hire a Computer Operator or Keypunch Operator at a time when very few people even knew what these terms meant. Nonetheless, my remarkable mother was working with computers in the 1940s.<\/p>\n

Copyright \u00a9 2008 by Stephen J. Danko<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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