A Special Lost and Found for Alfred Elling

In Spring 2007, Pastor Kramer tapped Al on the back while we were talking in the narthex between church services. "Come with me," he said, "I have something to show you."

He and Al walked down the hall to St. Paul's Lutheran School library.

"See what the librarian found!" he told Al.

"Where did you get this?" Al asked when Pastor Kramer gave Al his 7th grade report card.

What a SURPRISE! 63 years lost in transition. Double-click on the top photo to see Al's good grades. (Letters represent percentage scores in "those days.")

 

Pastor Kramer explained that the librarian had cleaned a top shelf in the library and found an old, dusty box.

The box had been moved from the old church building into the new school library many years before.

It contained three old report cards dated 1935-1936. (Al's 7th grade years would have been 1933-1934, indicating typos on the report card envelope. He graduated from 8th grade and was confirmed in the Spring of 1935.)

 Grandma Elling signed the report card each period.