Them it is on my desk- arecord, a proof of Hunter as it oncewas, while all this time the wodd hasbeen spinning crazily away from it.In my old Wisty, President EugeneA. Perhaps they weresad- they now seem funny.In order to recapture it, I look atmy WGtation of 1934, the year I wasgraduated. I: remember only minor incidents.Perhaps they were funnytheynow seem sad. ![]() She ir new at work on a shearerpiece and lyn'cs Jora Bel Kaufmanthe tail-end of a dream, it cannot becaught. Among her numesour otherhonors aj rnsrnbe~ship in Hunter5 Hall ofFame. Widely known aja wn'tel: teacher, tmmlato~ and popularsfieakes at educational conventioas andJewish organizations, she has won manyhonors and awards, such ar award fromUJA, Ant i-Defamation League, Heladmr,Brandeu Unimmfily (a Woman ofthe Year), from Educational Press ofAmerica for the best articles on educationin 19, and from NEAand PEN for winning a shoe $tory contestin 1983. But unlike her grandfather,ShaIom dbichem, who wasknow as the Yiddish Mask Twain (orMar8 Twain, wha idsnt$ied himey a~the American Sholom A leichem), BalKaufman ti sui gcneris. Likeultje, its author Eel Kaufnwrn (now celebmting her 50thanniversa y as a Phi Beta kk$pa, MapaCum Laude gmdwte ojHunter), u morethan its author she hoJ become a pem-nent member of that mre class, Americanhumorists. Like froston a window pane, memory mists thepast it softens, embroiders, distorts.When I try to recall what Hunter Collegewas like in my day, irrelevanciesemerge, dim faces, half-forgottennames, but the whole escapes likeUp the Down Staircase (now in its 47thprinting) u more than a novcl about lfein the New York City school sytem i& titlehar become a $eraanent part of theA rnerican Zangwge. ![]() O leap in memory over a span ofT fifty years to the days of one'syouth is fraught with enor.
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