Buffalo Seminary - Seminaria Yearbook (Buffalo, NY)

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16 W, - -V SEMINARIA 1942 Social Service llummittee Chairman: SUZANNE Rnssrocic Assistant Chairman: WBNDY WADSWORTH Seniors: MARJORIB MONTROsB, RUTH GUNDLACH, BETTYfLou HAMPTON juniors: SALLY JEACOCK, PATRICIA MOORE, Sus RANSOME, MARY EuzAasTi-I STUBBS III Form: Sun MISCHKA, JOANNE HOWARD, FRANCES TUCKER, MARY Weiss I, Il Form: CONNIE HYDE, NANCY SWEET, NANCY DANN, WINIFRBD CORBY Faculty Advisor: Miss DOROTHY ABBOTT This year the Social Service Committee, under the able management of Sue Rebstock and Wendy Wadsworth, conducted the annual sale for the Association of the Blind, collected a large quantity of clothes for the Lloyd Memorial Church, and contributed the combined funds from the Christmas dance and the White Stockings to the Pine Mountain School, the Settlement School of Music, the joint Charities, and a project in the international field. Our friends from various homes for the aged were entertained by the Committee at a Christmas party, the new students acting as hostesses. As we go to print, the Committee is entering whole-heartedly upon a program of war activities, which includes the Junior Red Cross. The school always looks forward to the joint Charities' luncheons and other projects sponsored by the Social Service Committee. We sincerely congratulate this competent group. C ,9

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li. . c c .5E.M.UiA15..1-f5.,i.9iZ The Samnvar ALDSCHOOL STORY gi Marusza pulled the old black shawl Fe.-- c Q over her head. Kati was displeased when her grandmother didn't wear a hat. But N, Kati wouldn't know. Today there was so little time and she must hurry. The office I at the settlement house closed at five and Miss gi' , Snowfdear would be gone. fx ji' She glanced quickly around the kitchen, her if .. ' eyes lingering on the shining chrome and the ai gleaming porcelain of the beautiful sink. Vodi' ,g amy -water sprites. Plumbing would never cease to be a miracle to Marusza. Hurry! She must hurry. Gently she picked up the heavy bulky package, wrapped carefully in newspaper, and quickly closed the door behind her. The street was crowded. So many people all hurrying. But it was good to walk in the February dusk and to know that you were a part of Maple Street-that over there above the tinsmith's shop lived your good friend, Hannah Cohen. whose youngest son was with your grandson in the same army camp-and who could speak to you a few words of the Lett language and whom you had taught to make the good solid soup. It was comforting to pass Patti's Pharmacy on the corner. Old Patti was your friend too! How nice the new lights were in the win' dows. That girl of Patti's-how smart! To learn to make medicine and to run the store. Patti was still in the store sometimes. He liked to see his neighbors and visit. He had learned to speak English in the same night class with Ivan when they had first come to America. Ivan spoke English real good before he died and Marusza remembered with pride how he could even correct the children sometimes. Ivan had been a good husband. ' Marusza walked faster. The street lights were on now. Colin O'Brien wasn't on duty. Maybe he was sick. He was a grand officer, young Colin. Each week he gave money to his Batooska in his church for milk for the poor children, and he'd helped the Urbanski boy get a job after he'd been paroled. The Mikklas were doing nice business. The store seemed full of people. Good- good-once the Mikklas family had had to go on relief. It was because they were so kind and gave too much credit-but now they had a new store and that was good too. Thank the good God the Peteroff family had not been on relief. Dimitri had work all through the depression and Kati had kept her job-sometimes only a day each week she worked. But they had managed. She paused to cross 6th Street and waved to Tim Hurley. To think that big gas station belonged to Tim. Marusza smiled a gentle smile when she remembere