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Dora Gina Nyrop was born March 8, 1887 at her parent’s farm near Elgin, Nebraska.  She became one of Nebraska’s most accomplished educators.  She attended Neligh High School and Gates Academy.  She taught rural schools in Antelope County and in the Doniphan, Nebraska schools.  In 1909 and 1910, she attended Tabor College and the University of Nebraska for three years, receiving the BA degree.  She returned to teaching in the high school at Schuyler, Nebraska for five years and became principal of the high school at McCook, Nebraska from 1918 to 1931.  She then accepted a position as Dean of Girls and instructor at Abraham Lincoln High School in Council Bluffs, Iowa from 1931 to 1955, after which she retired.  Summers were usually given to study and travel.  She spent five summers at Columbia University in New York City and received her Masters Degree in 1929.  She died on October 25, 1975.  

 

Source Unknown: Originally submitted for this website in Mar 2008