Harriet Wojtowicz papers 1915-2000 1938-1988

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Harriet Wojtowicz papers 1915-2000 1938-1988

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Spanish teacher in the Detroit Public School; personal and family documentation, letters with international correspondents, extensive travel memorabilia and other assorted documents and clippings related to Wojtowicz’s life in Detroit and numerous trips abroad.

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Detroit Public Schools

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Alzona, Encarnación, 1895-

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Starkie, Enid

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Wojtowicz, Harriet.

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Born to Polish immigrants in Detroit in June of 1914, Harriet Wojtowicz graduated from Detroit's Northeastern High School in 1931. She attended the University of Michigan receiving her A.B. in 1935 and her Master's in education in 1941. Following university, Wojtowicz began working as a Spanish teacher in the Detroit Public Schools and remained employed in this capacity until the mid-1970s. In the years leading up to her retirement, however, Ms. Wojtowicz became a target of discipli...