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FREUDENBERG'S LIST A durable emigre breaks the language barrier...
...about the volunteer project she began in 1957 and still runs today: her Foreign Language Interpreters' List--a directory of 200 Charlestonians who read, write and speak 53 foreign languages and who provide emergency translation services free of charge to hospitals, police and schools...
...thought that foreigners could possibly die in a hospital here because of a language barrier haunted me," she recalls. Within a few months she had produced her first translators' list. Often consulted, it is now published on the Internet. "Thousands of people have been assisted by the list since its inception," estimates Barbara Vaughn, public information director for Charleston. Translators have helped Cuban boat people stranded in port, sick Mexican migrant workers who couldn't communicate with hospital staff, Vietnamese schoolkids who couldn't understand instructions and a Norwegian sailor who ran away from a hospital, scared that his ship...
...service is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and, it seems to Freudenberg, her calls "always come at midnight." (Generally a police car picks her up and takes her where she is needed.) She updates the list every 18 months, finding translators on her walks in town as readily as she does phoning area schools. In 1959 she told Charleston's News and Courier: "I have got so much satisfaction and happiness by trying to help people in distress. This is my repaying of my debt [to America...
...Hidden Book in the Bible, Richard Elliot Friedman notes that there may have been two separate versions of the commandments: one ritual and one ethical. The ethical list is the one that we have become familiar with. The ritual version includes such commandments as "You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice on anything leavened" and "You shall not boil a kid in its mother's milk...