Wadleigh High School - Owl Yearbook (New York, NY)

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AN INTERVIEW Because we are closer 'ro peace fhns year Ihan lasf I Ihoughi' I+ would be nn+ereshng If we could gel' for Owl readers The sfory of someone ln our madsl' who had wlfnessed some of 'rhe slark realufy of war and fear Havmg heard a grea'r deal of 1'he Irymg expernences of Irene Schnell who came Io Wadleugh affer wandermgs +ha'r +ook her over many par'I's of Europe and Norlh Africa affer Ieavmg Germany nn l938 I 'fhoughf her s+ory would be anlereshng so I looked her up Mass Schnell proved +o be a mosl fasclnahng person 'ro I'aIk wulh She seems a very erudvle young Iady and speaks Englush 'FIuenI'Iy She was born an Dorfmund Germany and aHended school +here hll I938 when she Iefl Germany because of fhe polnhcal abuses Ihere and began her +raveIs by gomg firsl Io Holland alone Here she awal+ed fhe arruval of her parenfs noi' knowung If she d ever see +hem agam They finally arrnved however and fhe famlly wen? fo Pans by plane France had nol' ye'r gone +o war and +hey 'rraveled across Ihaf coun+ry fo Mar sellles and from fhere look a boa? +o Casablanca Norfh Africa Here Ihe famaly remauned 'nll fhe French declarahon of war on Ger many when her fafher was mferned as an enemy allen for eleven weeks and her moiher for Iwo weeks Apparenfly I+ was only her youfh +ha+ saved Irene from fhus experuence In February I94I she conhnued her +raveIs 'rhls hme gomg com plefely across Spam fo Lusbon In Por+ugaI and from Ihere Io Havana from whuch cnI'y she finally came fo Ihe Umfed S+aI'es In Ihus counfry she Inved for Iwo years In New Jersey only recenfly moving +o New York and enfermg Wadlengh She says she lakes Wadlelgh very much and hopes +o graduafe +hls 'rerm Asked aboul Ihe oufsfandmg fealures of fhls counI'ry which she enloys mos'r Irene answered I enloy mosl' of all +he freedom fo earn a Iuvmg I also enloy 'rhe Iheafers and our Isghf hearfed nenghbors and Hnally 'Ihe 'Fad 'rhaf I can a+ Iasf be wn+h bolh my paren+s and a number of my relahves VIOLA TOLBERT 23 . . . . . . . . . . . . . I . . . . . I I . . , . . . . . . . . . . . I I . . I . . . . . . I . . . . . I I ' . . , . Q l 1 Q . . . I . - u . . . . . . I I I . . . 1 u I . . . . . . . I . . . . . . ' s . . . . . II I l 0 1 u - . . . u . 0 ll .

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0171, 0l'I'OlfU I sfarled my homework af nine p. m. lTI1e movie was exceedingly goodl H s slrange I have almosl nolhing +o do, I'm sure. l've done all lhal I should. ,Now my s'rudy's compleled, I'll go Io my bed- Greal' Grief! I recall Io my sorrow- Oh Molher, dear Molher, please call me al six, For I'm having my mid-ferms lomorrowl RUST I I used 'lo 'lake care of an inlelligenl' Ii'l'rle boy who always wanled 'lo know fhe reason for everylhing. Once when I had him oul' riding on his brighl new lricycle, a 'l'hunder- slorm came up. I slarfed lo run foward home, pushing Ihe fricycle wilh Johnny on il' as I ran. And fhen if slarled. Maeve, asked Johnny, why does if +hun-der? As he asked fhis, he 'rurned his head and sleered crookedly. I knew il' would be in vain lo poslpone fhe answer: so I +oId him somefhing aboul' Rip Van Winkle bowling up in heaven. Theh lighf- ning slruck. I explained 'rhis by +eIling him Rip had knocked down all The puns. I fried Io hurry him along by 'lelling him his nice new Iricycle would gel' rusly. Then I had fo explain all aboul' rusl' and how il' was formed. By Ihis lime we had reached his home and as I pushed him in+o The garage, he looked up al' me wilh big innocenl eyes and asked, Maeve, if I sfayed ouf in lhe rain, will I gel rusly loo? RUTH ECKELT MAEVE FARREL 24