Bio: Kramer, Rosalind – Retires as Teacher (1972)

Transcriber: stan@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Kramer, Frattinger

----Source: Tribune/Phonograph (Abbotsford, Clark Co., Wis.) 08 Jun 1972

“I’m going to do many things I never had time to do while working” says Mrs. Clarence (Rosalind) Kramer, newly retired business education teacher at Abbotsford High School.

Mrs. Kamer has been teaching business subjects for 32 years, thirty of them at Abbotsford. She received a Bachelor of Education degree from Whitewater College.

Even at grade school lived, Mrs. Kramer was interested in becoming a teacher and cites the encouragement of Al Frattinger, an Abbotsford High School business teacher, as being instrumental in her decision to pursue a teaching career.

The business education department at Abbotsford High School contained 16 typewriters in 1942 when Mrs. Kramer started teaching, and she has seen the number increase to 34.

As the education material improved it was necessary for Mrs. Kramer to forget anniversary shorthand and learn the simplified methods. This has recently happened again as the Jubilee method has replaced the simplified method.

Remarking on the innovations of subjects she has taught the school, she stated bookkeeping now includes teaching students income tax and payroll deductions also.

Conscientious of her responsibilities as a teacher, Mrs. Kramer, who served as a class advisor, last years missed a day of school five years ago. Seven year previous to this she missed one half day because of illness.

Mrs. Kramer was presented with an engraved silver tray at the Education Association picnic held at Cherokee recently. The inscription read, “In appreciation for you many years of dedicated service in the field of education,” singed Abbotsford Education Association and Administration. The sophomore and junior girls of the Abbotsford officer practice class gave her a lamp.