Miss Dee enrolled in the Boston University School of Religious Education in the fall of 1928. She was enrolled as a graduate student as a candidate for the MRE degree. The box contains records only for 1928-1929. It included a photo depicting a “group of girls at School of Religious Education Boston.”
Miss Dee usually identified herself in photos with an “x”. Although her grades at Boston University were excellent, She did not complete the degree but moved on to Lubbock Texas in 1930 to teach at Texas Tech. These are her grades for the fall of 1928:
She continued to do well in the Spring Semester in 1929, but this report card shows a Nashville address. Apparently she had made arrangements to move on:
Of course there was a tremendous downturn in the economy in 1929, but we can only speculate as to whether that caused her departure from Boston University without a degree.
I have included this post, although incomplete, in order to describe the broad outline of the life of Mary Christine De Bardeleben. I plan to develop it further. I would welcome any information that anyone has dealing with this part of her life.
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