Dorothy Anker Memoir - University of Illinois Springfield

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Q. Now was the religious in the school or was that separate? Did you
go to your temple or . . .
A. No, it was different. I mean some in the afternoon we had the
classes, we had the religious schoolteacher and we had bays and girls
from different schools together. Then there came a time that we had the
same time when we had religious instruction. The Protestant children,
was everything Protestant. While we had the classes they rook us Jewish
children, WE had to go to another school and we got together. with some
boyg and girls from other schools together. And in all there would be a
large enough class. The same happened to the Catholic children.
Q. And did you have this religious instruction every afternoon?
A. No, no, Not often. We had it only two, three times a week, I
think. The third time was already voluntary just during the time that I
felr very religious. And wanted to take some extra.
Q. So you had come right out of the Lyceum when you decided to go to
Berlin?
A. No, I had still, out of this school I had to go into a full-fledged
Lyceum. This Rimer school was not full-fledged. It was only nine years
and I went into another school. There I ftnished and got a seal and
Lyceum's Reife .
Q. Your certificate.
A. Yes. I mean with this I would not have been equipped to go into a
university hut this school, this Lette Haus, that was all they asked
for. However, there were some girls there who already had gone to
college or university.
Q. Did you study foreign languages in your Lyceum?
A. Yes, you started this always after the fourth yeas of grade school.
You started out with French and the fifth year you have English added to
it too.
Q. So when you came over here, you already had a good foundation of
English, did you not?
A* Somehow but then 1 had more out of later Qn private lessons, the
fact that we lived in England for a year and a half. There I practiced
English more than theory that you get our of books. And the general
conversation.
Q. Now you have now spent two years at the school in Berlin and you
have received some sort of csrtlficate . . .
A. We had to pass the board . . .
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