Word: annee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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A year ago, blonde Anne Waterman, fresh out of Vassar, was a little dissatisfied with the life she was leading. In Washington she heard a Polish Embassy official complain about the teacher shortage in Warsaw, and decided to help, because "I wanted to show my family that I could do...
In Warsaw, 80 Poles in tattered clothes now crowd into a dingy classroom at the bombed-out university to learn English from Anne. For nine months, she has been the only U.S. teacher at the University of Warsaw.
Between English nouns and verbs, she began trying to tell the Poles about life in the U.S. The pamphlets she got from the U.S. Embassy were of little help ("They had too much propaganda that America is wonderful. It is wonderful. But you don't throw it at the...
Until last week the Polish Ministry of Education, which pays her way, had not interfered with what she tried to teach. But presumably she will run afoul of a new Polish law to test the party-line faithfulness of its teachers. Says Anne, who hopes she will be allowed another...
"Harvard's nice in the summer, but Yale is better in the winter," remarked Miss Anne Carpenter of Philadelphia and a graduate of Vassar College yesterday, fondly recalling bulldogs curled up by the fire on snowy Poughkeepsie evenings.