Teacher's Life Poems, etc., 1958, 1964, no date

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH Nettie Evelyne Zink of Buda, Bureau County, Illinois was born March 15, 1907, the daughter of George E. and Nettie Zink. (Evelyne only used “Nettie” on official documents, and dropped it after her marriage.) After graduation from High School in Buda in June 1925, she entered the two-year program at Northern Illinois State Teachers College on September 9, 1925. She suspended her studies after the spring 1926 term to help care for her father, while teaching at the Tadpole School. Evelyne returned to school full time in the fall of 1928, graduating June 6, 1929. She began teaching at the Wethersfield Grade School in 1929, where she remained until her marriage to Harold Johnson in June 1937. Living in Buda, Illinois she devoted the next fourteen years to her family. Mrs. Johnson resumed teaching in 1951 at the Buda Grade School, followed by Mineral Grade School and the Sheffield Grade School. She also continued her own education, receiving a B.S. in Education from Northern in August 1963. She retired from teaching fourth grade at Sheffield in June 1972. At the time of her death on May 23, 1999 she lived in Genoa, Illinois with her son Jay. The materials in this collection not only document Evelyne’s education at N.I.S.T.C. and N.I.U., but also her 29-year teaching career. Evelyne’s scrapbook contains mementoes of her years attending Northern, from 1925 to 1929. Included are photographs, post cards, invitations, grade cards, movie playbills, local restaurant menus, N.I.S.T.C. songs and cheers, and autographs of her friends from the “Hunt Club,” a local boarding house.