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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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