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MADAME B. ZISKA
MADAME B. ZISKA,
founder of the Ziska Institute, has been prominently identified
with educational interests for more than a quarter of a century. She is a native of Paris,
France; received a
thorough education in the best institutions in France
and Germany,
and took the degree of A. M. at the Baltimore
Female College
after coming to this country. She came
to California in 1863, and began
her school, than which none is now better known on the Pacific coast, with only
two pupils, the children of J. C. Pelton,
Superintendent of Public Schools. Thus
the Ziska Institute was founded on Bryan
street, from there
removed to South Park,
then the fashionable part of the city, and finally situated at No 922 Post
street. There is perhaps no educational
institution in the city or on the coast which has achieved a higher standard
and more thorough course of study. In
1887 Madame Ziska transferred the school to Miss Lake
and went to Europe, taking a well-earned rest, spending a year or two in
France, Germany, and England and other countries of the old world, never
missing an opportunity of studying progressive methods of education. Since her return, at the solicitation of her
friends and patrons, she has been induced to receive limited classes for a
finishing course, and in 1892 she proposes to reenter the professional career
by opening again a French, German and English day and
boarding school for young ladies and children.
Transcribed
by Cathi Skyles.
Source: "The Bay of San Francisco," Vol. 2,
page 320, Lewis Publishing Co, 1892.
© 2005 Cathi Skyles.
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