In Memory

Helen Mervash (Foreign Language)

Helen Mervash (Foreign Language)

Helen Mervash - Foreign Language

b. 08/22/1913  Wisconsin

d. 06/18/1980 in Milwaukee, Milwaukee Co., WI

--information from ancestry.com--



 
go to bottom 
  Post Comment

08/28/12 09:27 AM #1    

Timothy Hughes

I had Frau Jungton for one year, but Frau Mervash was my German teacher as a Sophomore and a Junior.  She had a sneeze that would rattle the windows of the whole school!  Ruhe in Frieden.


08/28/12 05:51 PM #2    

Harry Butz

Oddly, Frau Mervash was old enough that my parents had her as a teacher at Milwaukee's Rufus King High School in the 1940s. During the war years German was not taught so Ms. Mervash reverted to teaching Spanish.

I also recall that during her tenure as my German teacher, Ms. Mervash was lampooned by Craig Ede, editor of Custer's unofficial underground newspaper, the Harlequin. Mr. Ede created quite a flap when he reported that Ms. Mervash was caught in the restroom smoking "the killer weed."

go to top 
  Post Comment