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While in the camps they made their decisions of what they would no next. Fenyvesi and George Heimler, also a sophomore in Kirkland House, wanted to go to the United States because it offered the most opportunities for scholarships and college education...
They arrived here by plane and boat, on dark nights and on cold foggy mornings. "I always arrived everywhere at night," Fenyvesi remarks, while Heimler laments that "we coudn't even see the Statue of Liberty." Many of them were met by journalists and photographers. "My first impression of American," one refugee student relates, "was of American photographers and reporters. Their first act was to sit on the table or put their feet up. I thought this was a common American social custom...
After their arrival in the United States, the Hungarians started looking for work and college schalarships. Fenyvesi found employment in a printing office in Washington, which was doing work for Senator McClellan's labor investigating committee. In delivering reports, he met many of the the late Senator McCarthy. Heimler the late Senator McCarthy. Heinler worked in a shoe factory for a while, and then went to the University of Illinois for an English course, where he stayed in a fraternity house. He found the students there quiet, friendly, and had several dates with local sorority belles...
...students saw or were seen by the World University Service, which served as the liaison between them and universities which were becoming interested in offering scholarships to Hungarian students. Heimler and Fenyvesi were offered scholarships by Kirkland House, which raised $1200 for Heimler, and received an anonymous scholarships, which it gave to Charles...
...freed, I would like to go back immediately," he says, "but I think I would like to finish my studies here first. If the country becomes free, we must have contact with all foreign groups; if there is such a need, one can help who is studying abroad." Heimler, however, definitely wishes to remain here. Asked if he might go back, he throws up his hands and says, "No, no, no, no, no--not back. I'm staying--even if Hungary is liberated...