Kaunatas High-school drainage workshop receives a valuable gift
IN THE Kaunatas secondary school, the archives of the archives of the workshop, Staņislava Inkina, have devoted all their active lives TO studying the history of Kaunatas, gathering fate and memories. Now, as she retired, she constantly rearranges the exhibitions, applying it to her calendar and opening new and new pages for visitors. Every time, the drainage workshop is supplemented by new memories of the past.
The archive of this summer was supplemented by an impressive Kaunatas primary school graduate (1936 –1942), a gift of the Latvian language teacher Maria Brockans (1922) - her family memorial.
Maria Brockan has completed the Liepāja pedagogical school, then continued to study at the Cēsis Teacher Institute. In the school work, 47 years of work were spent - both at the Dzirciema 7-year-old school (Director), the Buldura 7-year-old school, the forest-edge secondary school, not just teaching Latvian language at primary school and secondary school, but also leading the dramatic collective and youth dance collective.
From the family who had gone to refugees in 1944, Maria's only one remains in Latvia. In the summer of 1968 she received an invitation to visit her brothers Edward and Alexandre and sister Eleanor IN THE US, who, although she had lost her hearing during the war, had created many beautiful works during her life, such as the clouds of Moscow's large theatre, as well as a book of songs. Of course, before the journey takes place in THE NKVD institution for the purpose of the journey, the family members. At the time of his life, Maria spent 11 times in the US, celebrating her sister's 100 th birthday in Cleveland in 2012. “I had a family, friendly relationship with my brothers and sisters.” Family love, friendship, mutual help helped us live, "says Maria in a letter.
Maria's brother-in-law, Alexander Brocban (1917 –2017), had obtained a doctorate degree in agronomy at the University of Hohenheim in Stuttgart. After the Second World War, he moved to THE UNITED STATES Harrisburg, where he held both G.E. Sheffer & Son's secretary-general and was vice-president at Seafood Corp Camphilla. He owns a number of patents for the processing of marine products, such as freezing and storing frozen fish. Alexander Brockin was still able to meet his 100 th birthday with his spouse, Barry Brocani, who lived in marriage for 67 years.
This year, Marie Brockan decided to transfer a number of family personal files to THE archives of THE Kaunatas secondary school. There are both Brocban family textbooks and personal belongings, such as photographs, father letters, Alexander Doctor's degree attestation, “Singer” sewing machine, Mmother Texas Brokane's tablecloth, and her woven blanket, whose co-worker is once given TO President of the Republic of Latvia, Karl Ulmanis, when he visited Kaunatā. As a loving memory from her mother, Texas Maria Becker has kept her knitted gloves. Her mother's crouched tablecloth is also delighted. In the middle of the gifts, we can see Father Joseph's wallet from 1910, as well as the money signs of that time. From the letters and photographs, the curves of the Brockans are spread, leading up to THE name OF THE U.S. General Rita Brockans, who is born in Australia in the Latvian family. He can also follow Joseph's son, Edward and Alexander's life, with photographs. Visitors can also see the typewriter with whom Edward Brockans has written his works.
Although time tends to override many events with their veil, through the participation of socially active people, they manage to raise it and give the next generations a message of the past. Looking at both the achievements of graduates and the subjects from their personal space, young people and other visitors have the opportunity to travel in time.
Inara Paramonova
Foto Vladimir Likov, from Maria Brokanes's personal archive.
