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Frances Koral— I came home exhilarated. I had had a marvelous summer although I realize I'm not doing that much for the War effort. It was a marvelous part of the college experience. I could never have done that if it hadn't been through the college. It heightened my enjoyment of college. And I met very special people. It was a socially significant lark which as a city kid I never would have had that experience.
And then it was time to go back to school and to pick up one's life. I mean, this was a lark. You have to understand it was truly a lark. I was doing a lark for a cause but it was a lark. I came back and I told everybody my stories, and the lark was over. You'd go back to real life. This was not real life. You know?
Phyllis LeShaw— There were such fast friendships that were made, not just with my group, other groups, that are still there today. A lot of permanent relationships were established. Yeah, lifetime friendships.
I left home and took a summer job as a singer and came back from the summer. Oh, I met my first boyfriend there but I didn't want to marry him because I had a career in mind. And then I flew to Canada and headlined at the Latin Quarter in Montreal, the Copa in Ottawa, and did a lot of singing. In those days you could sing classical music in clubs. You can't, of course, anymore. You can hardly sing classical music anywhere. But that's what I did. You know? I sang arias and the kind of stuff that Pavarotti sings today.
Marion Greenstone— I went back to Brooklyn College and then I taught for a couple of years in a Beth Jacobs school in the Bronx. I was teaching first grade. It was a parochial school and the kids had Hebrew all morning, and they were so exhausted by the time I got them I don't think they learned very much English. Then I decided if I was going to be a teacher I'd have to get a Master's degree, so I went to Columbia while I was teaching at Beth Jacobs.
Frances Koral— I think I studied psychology and I was going to be a social worker. I graduated. I got my BA and then I took one course at NYU, which was very satisfying. But then I got married and had a child and decided I wanted to work the hours my child was in school so I became a schoolteacher.
Elliot Levine— We did have a reunion meeting sometime later that year or the next year, in which Milton Rosenberg got up and he said he wanted to talk about a possible reunion in Madison Hall in Morrisville. It never happened.
Many years later I bought a car, my first jalopy, and I was on my way to Syracuse where a buddy of mine was going to Syracuse University and I stopped off in Morrisville. It was a sentimental journey. It already looked different. The town looked like it was much more built up. When we were there the population was seven hundred. I don't remember what it was in '48 when I bought my car, but it was already bigger.
