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DESKAIDE * THE SILENT SECRETARY * 1942]]

September 21 Monday

[[top margin]]I wore my new pink dress [[/top margin]]
Cloudy + cold (50°) In the morning I got up at 6:15 + left for school at 8:30 (Dad took me to bus stop) + got there at 9:15. There I went to room 101 + got a green card of my schedule. 
We have rotating subjects-

[[5 column table]]
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Mon. | Tues. | Weds. | Thurs.|Fri.
Latin | Math | Gym | Eng.|German
German | Latin | Math | Gym | Eng.
Eng. | German | Latin | Math | Gym
Gym | Eng. | Germany | Latin | Math
Math | Gym | Eng | German | Latin 
[[/5 column table

2 lunch hours- eat in 1st one, go to study hall (?) in second one. We got out early. I met Dolores Korr, Alica Grey, Patsey Birge, etc from our school (only a few). We went to all classes in Mon. order. I have only a few classes with anybody I know. In the German class there are 2 semester workers- but only 10 boys, 6 girls in all.

I got my allowance - 15 cents. I had $1.40. I have 1.55 now.
 
[[left margin]] We are in "section" (homeroom) 262. We thought 252 was it at first. [[/left margin]] 

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I have books cards - got math books + greencard. H$
On way home I bought 10¢ worth of ring paper - I don't [[words hidden in crease]]+ a 5 cent notebook.
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[[quote]] "Education is the cheap defense of nations" - BURKE [[/quote]]


DESKAIDE * THE SILENT SECRETARY * 1942

September 22 Tuesday

Fair + cold. I went to school. I pd only 5¢ (bus) going down instead of 10¢ + got off in Rosslyne (VA) instead of Washington & walked across the bridge. I went to all classes, got all my books (in all subj. except Gym- 4 books) + will get my locker tomorrow. I still don't know my way around school very well. I met a girl (Rita Rasien [[strikethrough]] berg [[/strikethrough]]-came year before this to New York from captured Belgium) + walked to bus stop with her- she has been here only a few days + knows no one- I met her Mon.. I met Mimi Dean (girl who used to stare at Henry Clay on the bus coming + going. ( In the morning buses are terribly crowded) she goes to a private school in Washington- looks better. In the evening I had a bunch of Latin homework. Dolores came over and I went over there. Her little brother John Cary can almost walk now + is fat + cute. 
[[left margin]] [[illegible]] is doing so well in [[illegible]]. The German [[/left margin]]
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is fairly hard - I don't speak or understand it [[?]] well & Latin is very hard. [[top margin]]

[[quote]] "Public instruction should be the first object of government" NAPOLEAN

Transcription Notes:
Right hand margin is largely illegible because of the crease. Left margin is illegible due to crease. *"Semester workers" is correct. Never heard of it, but it is a used term.