St. Paul - First English Lutheran School
New Orleans, Louisiana

At one time, in the 1950s, the first and second grade classes of the school were combined and located in an old shotgun double house on St. Claude Avenue near Port Street. Here is how the old house looked at about that time (lower right).

The church, constructed in 1893, is to the left (and to the left of it, the parsonage).

The photographs below are of the combined first and second grades in the schoolyear of 1950-1951.
The teacher was Miss Mary Schleef.
Miss Mary Schleef
Mary Schleef taught both years of 1949-50 and 1950-51.
In the classroom.
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Identifications by row, left to right:
Row 1: _____girl 1_____, Cheryl Franatovich, Jack Bilich, Joy Bolton, John Walz [?], Georgia Stiller [?].
Row 2: Mary Martin, Gerald Genovese, Norman Hellmers, Linda Lambert, Patsy Townsend, Alvin Wichterich, Karen Altmann
Row 3: Terry Lambert, Fred Haupt, Susan Alford, Susan Luening, Frank Heidel, Ronnie Wismar, Lester Lightell, _____boy 1_____.
Row 4: Dale Trepagnier, _____girl 2_____, _____boy 2______, Dexter Lightell, Val Ticker, Lee Russell, Judy Zetsch, _____boy 3_____.

Outside.
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Identifications, left to right:
Patsy Townsend, Georgia Stiller, Susan Luening, Lee Russell, Dexter Lightell, Karen Altmann, _____boy 2_____, Frank Heidel, Lester Lightell, Fred Haupt, Norman Hellmers, Gerald Genovese, Ronnie Wismar, Cheryl Franatovich, Val Ticker, Terry Lambert, _____girl 2_____, _____boy 3_____, _____girl 1_____, Alvin Wichterich, Dale Trepagnier, _____boy 1_____, Mary Martin, Judy Zetsch, Susan Alford, John Walz [?], Jack Bilich, Linda Lambert.

Any inquiries can be addressed to Norm Hellmers:
norm.hellmers (at) gmail.com