Scranton Central HS December 1956 Yearbook (Scranton, PA) - Full Access

NEW AMERICANS common. life to the Latin American is some– thing of beauty to be enjoyed and appreciated day by day. Since the ways of life in Argentina and United States are quite dif– ferent, such sudden changes left us a little confused. We began to learn the ways, customs and the language of our new country. Then school came to help us appreciate this great nation. We are grateful for the opportuni– ties that have been given to us in this country: the freedom to choose our own work, expression of our own ideas, betterment of ourselves, a voice in selecting the government, and many more which can be found only in this wonderful land of promise, the United States of America." Aida Zukowski, '59 "In lithuania, where I was born, spent five short years. After that lived here, there, and nowhere until 1949 when I came to this country. I was a child then, never questioning or understanding the hardships and anguish my parents suffered, and so the memories that stayed with me are mostly pleasant. I remember Lithuania only vaguely, but my parents have told me it is a flat country, predominantly agri- Jona Dovydena DECEMBER, 1956 The Banks of the Nemunas River cultural and noted for fine food, much of which was exported to Great Britain. We left Lithuania in 1944-– two horses, a wagon, my parents, two sisters, I, and a thousand others like us, expecting to return in a few months after the front had receded. But the wave of terror from the East came and never subsided. After a chaotic exodus through Silesia and Czechoslovakia, we reached the terminus-lngolstadt, Bavaria. lngolstadt, boasting a very early cathedral and a medieval castle, which is now a museum, is an old city, built on the banks of the Danube. It is given a brief mention in Madam Shelley's novel "Franken– stein," as one of the characters at– tended the University of lngolstadt. The blue Danube adds much charm to the city, as it is beautiful and strikingly green in color. Through the outskirts of the city runs the famous Nurnberg-Munich "autobahn", a four-lane highway very much like the present-day turnpikes. It was on this highway that the NSU motorcycles set speed records in 1951. We DP's lived in camps or "lagers", usually military barracks or apartment houses. Each camp had a director and various committees in charge of distributing food, main– taining order and other details necessary to support a small com– munity. Food was provided by the UNRRA and later by the IRRA. The camps were officially run by the U. S. Army, which occupied that point of Germany. During our last years we were moved to a small village outside of town. It had housed a munitions factory during the war, and we oc– cupied the buildings in which the workers had lived. The interesting thing about it all was that close by there were two villages whose names were Tesching and Kesching. The names of our village was Oesching Desching, Tesching and Kesching– certainly a nightmare for any foreign agent. Whether this is the reason for the assonant names, I do not The City Gate of lngolstadt know; however, it is an interesting enigma. I attended a Lithuanian school which was somewhat different from schools in the United States. We had from four to five one-hour classes daily and a five-minute break be– tween each class. Sports were popular but different from what we have here. Handball, soccer, basket– ball, calisthenics and pole vaulting 17