Title: Janet M. Smaltz
Dates: 1927-1982
Collection Number: 11320
Quantity: .5 feet.
Abstract: Consists of correspondence, articles and manuscripts by Smaltz about special education development and policy in North Dakota, reminiscences about directing the Easter Seals mobile speech and hearing clinic, a humorous scrapbook created for colleagues at the Department of Public Instruction upon her retirement, a scrapbook of thank you notes from colleagues or those who were served by Smaltz, news clippings and printed articles about Smaltz, newsletters and other printed material, photographs, negatives and slides.
Provenance: The collection was donated to the State Historical Society of North Dakota by Sue Smaltz Burrus in July 2017.
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Biographical Sketch:
Janet Mathews Smaltz was born on May 26, 1916, near Morrison, Ill. She graduated from Morrison High School and held degrees from the University of Illinois and the University of Minnesota. In 1947, Janet came to North Dakota to develop the Mobile Speech and Hearing Clinic for the Easter Seal Society and pioneered the effort to document need for special education services in the North Dakota Public Schools. In 1956, she became the State Director of Special Education for the Department of Public Instruction and continued in that position until 1976. During that time she was named “North Dakota Woman of the Year in Education” (1965); given the “Humanitarian Award by the North Dakota Council for Exceptional Children” (1970); and was named “Outstanding Woman in Education in North Dakota” (1975). She retired in 1981. Janet was a member of the Golden K Kiwanis where she joyfully played the piano every Wednesday morning until she was nearly 100 years old. She was an ordained elder in the First Presbyterian Church in Bismarck and an active member of the Valley View Retirement Community. She died on July 14, 2017.
Box/Folder Inventory
Box 1:
1 Correspondence, 1947-1982
2 Quotes from letters, journals, etc., ca. 1981
3 "Special Education Development in North Dakota," April 1981
4 Reminiscence about the mobile speech and hearing clinic, ca. 1981
5 Scrapbook created for Smaltz's colleagues at the Department of Public Instruction, June 1981
6 Thank you scrapbook, 1981
7 Miscellaneous, 1927-1974
8 Disc with photographs: 00001-00080, , ca. 1950
9 Photographs: 00081-00107, ca. 1955
10 Photographs: 00108-00133, ca. 1955
11 Scrapbook with photographs: 00134-00149, ca. 1955
12 Negatives: 00110, 00118, 00132, 00133, 00145, 00150-00153, ca. 1955
13 Photographs: 00154-00178, ca. 1955
Photographs Inventory
00001 – 00080 Camp Grassick, ca. 1950
00081 – 00082 Siblings: Mary J. and her brother, ca. 1946
00083 Siblings: Mary J. and her brother, 1949
00084 Siblings: Mary J. and her brother, 1953
00085 Siblings: Mary J. and her brother, ca. 1950
00086 Siblings: Mary J. and her brother, ca. 1952
00087 Siblings: Mary J. and her brother, 1952
00088 Siblings: Mary J. and her brother, ca. 1955
00089 Man with wheelchair and walkers beside car, ca. 1955
00090 Men reviewing architectural plans, ca. 1955
00091 Man, ca. 1955
00092 Group of people, ca. 1955
00093 Portrait of Anne Carlsen, ca. 1955
00094 Portrait of a couple, ca. 1955
00095 Janet M. Smaltz outside the Crippled Children's School, ca. 1955
00096 Woman with book, ca. 1955
00097 Bonnie Lee Brenner baby portrait, ca. 1955
00098 Couple with young child, ca. 1955
00099 Woman emerging from car, ca. 1955
00100 Janet M. Smaltz and woman on capitol grounds, ca. 1955
00101 Janet M. Smaltz, Anne Carlsen and three other women, ca. 1955
00102 Portrait of a couple, ca. 1955
00103 Group dining, 1952
00104 Portrait of a young man, ca. 1955
00105 Portrait of a woman, ca. 1955
00106 Group dining, ca. 1955
00107 Portrait of a young woman, ca. 1955
00108 Mrs. V. A. Loyland, teacher of Stavanger District School No. 3 takes pupils to the Speech and Hearing lab at Reynolds for examinations. Lucille Holtan, clinic assistant, is in doorway, ca. 1947
00109 Janet M. Smaltz tests a young child inside the Easter Seals Speech and Hearing Clinic, ca. 1947
00110 A group standing beside the Easter Seals Speech and Hearing Clinic, ca. 1947
00111 Marge Hurt, Janet M. Smaltz and Lucille Holtan standing beside the Easter Seals Speech and Hearing Clinic, ca. 1947
00112 Janet M. Smaltz tests a child inside the Easter Seals Speech and Hearing Clinic, ca. 1947
00113 Janet M. Smaltz with group inside classroom, ca. 1947
00114 Marge Hurt, Janet M. Smaltz, Lucille Holtan and several children standing beside the Easter Seals Speech and Hearing Clinic, ca. 1947
00115 Janet M. Smaltz tests a child inside the Easter Seals Speech and Hearing Clinic, ca. 1947
00116 – 00117 Woman reading and smoking a cigarette, ca. 1947
00118 Woman testing a child inside the Easter Seals Speech and Hearing Clinic, ca. 1947
00119 Janet M. Smaltz and two other women, possibly Marge Hurt and Lucille Holtan and several children standing beside the Easter Seals Speech and Hearing Clinic, ca. 1947
00120 Easter Seals Speech and Hearing Clinic automobile in snow, ca. 1947
00121 Marge Hurt and Lucille Holtan in cots inside the Easter Seals Speech and Hearing Clinic, ca. 1947
00122 Janet M. Smaltz and either Marge Hurt or Lucille Holtan on cots in Easter Seals Speech and Hearing Clinic, ca. 1947
00123 Janet M. Smaltz, Marge Hurt and Lucille Holtan, ca. 1947
00124 Janet M. Smaltz, Marge Hurt and Lucille Holtan standing beside Easter Seals Speech and Hearing Clinic automobile and trailer, ca. 1947
00125 Janet M. Smaltz and woman sitting beside Easter Seals Speech and Hearing Clinic on their last trip, ca. 1947
00126 Janet M. Smaltz and either Marge Hurt or Lucille Holtan on cots in Easter Seals Speech and Hearing Clinic, ca. 1947
00127 Janet M. Smaltz and woman sitting beside Easter Seals Speech and Hearing Clinic on their last trip, ca. 1947
00128 Janet M. Smaltz and woman standing in field, ca. 1947
00129 Janet M. Smaltz and woman standing beside Easter Seals Speech and Hearing Clinic, Janet is blowing bagpipes for their last trip, ca. 1947
00130 Janet M. Smaltz and woman standing in field, ca. 1947
00131 Easter Seals Speech and Hearing Clinic with new paint job, ca. 1947
00132 Woman packing bedding inside Easter Seals Speech and Hearing Clinic, ca. 1947
00133 A group standing beside the Easter Seals Speech and Hearing Clinic, ca. 1947
00134 The Easter Seals' Mobile Speech and Hearing Clinic. In 1947, Highway #2 was the only U.S. Highway in North Dakota that was completely paved. Less than 300 miles of North Dakota highways were paved. , ca. 1947
00135 Easter Seals Speech and Hearing Clinic, ca. 1947
00136 Janet M. Smaltz and another woman testing a child inside the Easter Seals Speech and Hearing Clinic, ca. 1947
00137 Young man testing inside the Easter Seals Speech and Hearing Clinic, ca. 1947
00138 Group beside Easter Seals Speech and Hearing Clinic, ca. 1947
00139 Marge Hurst, Lucile Holton and Janet Smaltz beside the Easter Seals Speech and Hearing Clinic, ca. 1947
00140 Janet M. Smaltz, Fran Charlton, Anne Carlsen with two office workers in front of the Easter Seal building, Jamestown (N.D.), ca. 1950
00141 The organizational meeting of the North Dakota Speech and Hearing Association, ca. 1950
00142 Janet M. Smaltz working in the office of the Easter Seal Society, ca. 1950
00143 Janet M. Smaltz sitting in the library of the Easter Seal Society, ca. 1947
00144 Woman shoveling the Easter Seals Speech and Hearing Clinic trailer out of a snow bank, ca. 1947
00145 Janet M. Smaltz and either Marge Hurt or Lucille Holtan on cots in Easter Seals Speech and Hearing Clinic, ca. 1947
00146 Easter Seals Speech and Hearing Clinic automobile in snow, ca. 1947
00147 Probably Easter Seals staff in a meeting 2/1955
00148 Probably Easter Seals staff, 1960
00149 Janet M. Smaltz with friends or Department of Public Instruction staff, ca. 1970
00150 - 00151 Vacant number
00152 Women testing a child inside the Easter Seals Speech and Hearing Clinic, ca. 1947
00153 View of living area, ca. 1947
00154 Janet M. Smaltz and woman sitting beside Easter Seals Speech and Hearing Clinic automobile on their last trip, ca. 1947
00155 Janet M. Smaltz beside Easter Seals Speech and Hearing Clinic trailer, ca. 1947
00156 Janet M. Smaltz beside Easter Seals Speech and Hearing Clinic trailer, ca. 1947
00157 Woman testing a child inside the Easter Seals Speech and Hearing Clinic, ca. 1947
00158 Group beside Easter Seals Speech and Hearing Clinic, Traill County (N.D.), 1949
00159 Group beside Easter Seals Speech and Hearing Clinic, Morton County (N.D.), 1951
00160 Easter Seals Speech and Hearing Clinic outside a school, ca. 1947
00161 Woman testing a child inside the Easter Seals Speech and Hearing Clinic, ca. 1947
00162 Group beside Easter Seals Speech and Hearing Clinic, ca. 1947
00163 Easter Seals Speech and Hearing Clinic, ca. 1947
00164 Two men beside "Summer Speech Clinics - 1953" map, 1953
00165 Janet M. Smaltz testing young child inside Easter Seals Speech and Hearing Clinic, ca. 1947
00166 Women beside the Easter Seals Speech and Hearing Clinic, ca. 1947
00167 Janet M. Smaltz beside Easter Seals Speech and Hearing Clinic trailer, ca. 1947
00168 Women lying in bed, ca. 1947
00169 Children watching "Harding Kids" marionette show, ca. 1950
00170 Unidentified woman sitting beside tree, ca. 1950
00171 Janet M. Smaltz in North Dakota Society for Crippled Children and Adults automobile outside the Franklin School, ca. 1950
00172 – 00175 Easter Seals Speech and Hearing Clinic, ca. 1950
00176 – 00177 Group beside Easter Seals Speech and Hearing Clinic, ca. 1950
00178 Easter Seals Speech and Hearing Clinic, ca. 1950
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