Los Angeles Valley College - Crown Yearbook (Valley Glen, CA)

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S Ready and willing Z2 K- Quiet, please. Libraries are for studying, not talking. Stacks and stacks of for Mrs. Barbara Toohey is only one ofthe many librarians who makes herself available whenever help is needed. magazines-a mystic maze, but Jean Meacham knows her way around them. .Yu ,'-t' Mil RNS

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Trying to find that elusive author, title, or subiect is no trouble at all for Winnie Hinkel looking through one of the best maintained card catalogs.

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Enchanting Beauty J aokie triumphs over infant handicap If Theater Arts major and the Crown cover-girl Jacqueline Smith continues in the field of acting, it is highly doubtful that she will ever come in contact with a true story as moving and inspiring as her own. For here is a girl, now a young American woman, whose personal background, if put on paper, would make any aspiring playwright proud. On the first day of April, 1943, Jacqueline Smith was born. But unlike other children, Jacqueline wasnit born in the comfort of a hospital, with the protecting eyes of the doctor looking on. Instead, a German prison camp in Frank- furt, Germany, was the site which in- troduced Jacqueline to her first few months of life. Shortly thereafter she was transfer- red to a displaced person's camp outside of Munich. Her mother, a Belgian nurse, died during childbirth, and her father, an English soldier, was shot as he tried to escape to freedom. Young, nameless Jacqueline remained in the Munich camp for more than two years as World War II came to a halt with the destruction of I-Iitlerls armies and the fall of the Japanese empire. One of hundreds of young orphans, Jac- queline may have been destined to a life of hunger and loneliness if it had not been for RKO war correspondent Harry W. Smith, whose beat was the crumbled Germany. Working with children inside many of these camps, Harry Smith came into contact with thousands of these homeless youngsters every week. But for some reason-many will call it fate while others will credit it to a variety of other sources-Harry Smith found Jacqueline and knew that this had to be his little girl. Although she spoke no English, Mr. Smith recalls, she had such a warm and amiable way about her that language wasn't at barrier. After my return to the States, my wife and I discussed the possibilities for adoption. When I returned to Germany, proceedings were arranged and I was able to bring J ac- queline back with me to New York. The Smiths remained in New York as the adoption was arranged. In 1948 the Smiths legally became Jacqueline's parents. In 1955, the Smith family traveled to New Jersey, four years after their daughter Jac- queline became an American citizen. Later Bermuda became their home, and