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The Family Blog. For All Descendants of Salomon and Lydia Lindman.

Signe Wennberg (1888-1977)

My great grandfather's sister Signe Wennberg (who was also my great grandmother's cousin) was a most interesting woman. As one of 10 siblings she grew up in Skara and Jönköping, and had her training as a teacher in Lund. In 1913 she was employed at Wintzellska skolan (a school for girls in Helsingborg) and five years later, at age 30, she became its principal. As far as I know she had that position until her retirement. As was very usual for female teachers, she never married.

For her 50th birthday, one of her collegues wrote a beautiful portrait of her in the Helsingborg daily newspaper (I make the quote in Swedish):

Genom sin psykologiska blick, sin fina intuition, klara intelligens och framför allt genom sitt moderliga hjärta har hon blivit en pedagog som få. Sällsynt väl förstår hon barnasjälen men också de ungas än mer komplicerade psyke. Harmonisk och lugn kan hon gjuta olja på upprörda vågor. Och när härvor vilja trassla till sig reder hon upp dem med beundransvärt tålamod utan att som många andra med ett brutalt hugg lösa knuten. [...]

Säkerligen skola generationer av lärjungar med tacksamhet erkänna, att hennes fasta och ändå mjuka hand lett dem rätt. Många av dem söka sig tillbaka till sin "Fröken" när de behöva råd, eller anförtro henne sina glädjeämnen och sorger.

This was 1938. Two years ago, I found three cassette tapes at Skeda, where Signe tells us about her family. I listened to them with great interest, and noticed that her way of speaking was extremely well articulated; I definetely would like to have met her. But not as a child or a teenager: as an adult with life experience. In the voicebank (linked below) you can listen to Signe's insightful thoughts about her siblings and about understanding a person's life.

http://www.salomonochlydia.se/?intParentId=0&intPageId=40

Oh, nice warm wise Signe. She meant a lot to our family. When Signe arrived at Christmas, christmas started for real. Signe advise led me to 35 years of glorious profession. Mom had a huge support of Signe as she rehabilitated her polio, she said. Dad and Mom've saved a lot of family papers letters and pictures, books from Signe when they inherited her summer home. There are certainly gems there. You might come and visit Hans? (jag kan fortfarande inte ta itu med allt)

Det vore väldigt trevligt att komma och besöka.

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