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Seven-Grade San Geronimo School - 1921
Pupils of the seven-grade San Geronimo School posed with their teacher, Prof. F.A. Burket, for this photo in 1921. The school was also known as the Rose School, in honor of H.A. Rose, who gave the land for the community school house in the Freiheit area. The photo was provided by Miss Nora Schultze, who identified the students (with married names appended to those of the girls) as follows: the pre-school-aged boy sitting on the ground is Reinhold Erwin Burket, son of the teacher, Prof. Burket, now listed in the San Antonio telephone directory as Lt. Col. R.E. Burket. The 12 boys in the first row are, from left, Albert Hansmann, Max Kohlenberg (dec.), Melvin Adams, Wilbert Hansmann, Walter Nolte, Arno Bormann, Alex Bormann (dec.), Arthur Brinkkoeter, Alton Timmermann (dec.), Alfred Roessing, Oscar Timmermann, and Lee Kohlenberg. Second row, Elsie Meyer Kneupper, Ruby Peinemann Self, Angela Kroesche, Helge Kraft Lumsden, Marcella Burket Springs (dec.), Ida Nolte Wenzel, Camilla Burket Munger, Prof. Burket, Ruby Kohlenberg Grobe, Gerda Harborth (?), Nora Timmermann Lehmann, Alice Dierks Foster, Melba Alves Rice (dec.), and Lillie Kohlenberg Eismann. Back row, Oscar Lehmann, Marvin Adams, Bruno Burket, Walter Meyer, Dan Timmermann, Willie Hansmann, Hedwig Timmermann Kraft (dec.), Elenora Hansmann (dec.), Nora Schulze, Thekla Hundertmark Zipp, Mildred Luersen Preiss, and Hugo Mittendorf. Miss Schutze says there were a few absentees the day the photo was taken. [photo and description provided by Ron Burkett from an undated clipping.]