Chautauquan Kim Harris will perform as Gertrude Hironymous Dangberg

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Kim Harris will perform as Gertrude Hironymous Dangberg, wife of Fred Dangberg, Jr., who also served on several local and Nevada educational boards. Gertrude Hironymous was one of the first women to graduate from Nevada State University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1896. She then went on to earn a state High School teaching certificate and taught school in both Alpine and Douglas counties. Gertrude retired from teaching in 1898 when she met and married Fred Dangberg, Jr. of Carson Valley.