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I went to school at P.S. 5 on 141st St. and Edgecombe Ave. Most of the pupils were Irish, Jewish and Italian, with only a small percentage of black pupils. This changed each year as more blacks moved into the neighborhood. [[strikethrough]] The school, P.S. 89 on 135th St. and Lenox Ave., even in the early 1920s, however, had mostly all black students.[[/strikethrough]]

At P.S. 5, a number of students, who all wore a kind of similar blue uniform, were called 'The Home Boys'. That is they came from The Hebrew Orphan Home, which was located a bit west of Lewishon Stadium, where the City College teams played football, baseball and lacrosse. During the summers, the stadium was used for marvelous symphonic concerts.

When I finished public school, I went to De Witt Clinton High School in New York City. The school had so many pupils that there were about five annexs [[annexes]] in various parts of the city. In the year and a half I attended Clinton, I never made it to the main building. And after that, I decided to stay with my maternal grandmother in Pittsburgh, Penna. [[strikethrough]] And [[/strikethrough]] and I went to Peabody high in East Liberty. Near the end of my high school days I had become a fairly good student. It is interesting though that I had very little [[strikethrough]] interest in [[/strikethrough]] involvement with art- I mean in light of my present concern.

In college, I did become interested in cartooning and I drew for the humor magazine, [[strikethrough]] and I [[/strikethrough]] and was the art editor of the NYU Medley in my senior year. I received a B.S. degree from NYU, as I planned to enter medical school. My favorite subject, in the sciences, was mathematics; [[strikethrough]] but [[/strikethrough]] since I had little interest in the other [[strikethrough]] s [[/strikethrough]] sciences, [[strikethrough]] and [[strikethrough]] I finally understood that medicine was not for me. [[strikethrough]] Since [[/strikethrough]]

There was very little to count, in those depression years,[[strikethrough]] but [[/strikethrough]] except the unemployed, [[strikethrough]] there was [[/strikethrough]] and very little need for mathematicians; [[strikethrough]] [[so?]] was I went to the Art Students League in the evenings to study with the German master of corrosive satire, George Grosz.

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Lewisohn Stadium DeWitt Clinton High School