Press-cuttings Handelsonderwijs Burgerschool

Through his wife Christianne Delbeke, Georges Couckuyt came into the possession of a book full of press-cuttings. This book was composed by Cordelia Vandewiele, a relative of Christianne Delbeke. Cordelia was the "devoted secretary" of Guido Gezelle in Kortrijk. She had a great admiration for Gezelle. Her real profession was insurance agent with the insurance-company Securitas.

This is a pencil-drawing of Cordelia Vandewiele source: magazine ‘De Leiegouw’ volume XIV-number 3, of 1972 (pg. 328)

Guido Gezelle threw a lot of press cuttings in his waste-paper basket. In the evening, Cordelia emptied this waste-paper basket and stuck the press cuttings in an album.

In this album you find:

* Death-announcements
* Occasional poems, for funerals, births, communions,…
* Celebrations of the Davidsfonds
* Speech about the ‘Vlaemsche Tale’ (Flemish language)
* Invitation to the homage on 30 September 1886
* Envelope of the letter in which Guido Gezelle was knighted by the king.
* His judgement of the "Mandelgalm" of Roeselare
* His nomination of 23 May 1889 as a priest
* Envelope with the handwriting of Gezelle, in which a word of thanks was sent to those who congratulated him.
* Homage of Gezelle's bust on 20 April 1903
* The menu in honour of the homage of Gezelle's bust:

jeugd
Kruimelingen
Harst in lente
Spergiestangen
Kiekens in ‘t groen
Kriftenberg
Kroonkoek
Ooft
Sneukelwerk

* Death-announcement of his brother Joseph Gezelle, born in 1840 in Brugge and died on the 21 June 1903