However, he was Daddy, and I loved it when he helped me with my homework. I remember, when I was in High School, and we were reading Julius Caesar, he read the entire book, and I was amazed that he could even say he enjoyed it. Then we studied it together. I’ll not forget that. Well, I went to school, and was a so-so student. About as big as a five year old, when I was in second grade. My Mother said I had already done first grade. I guess I did OK, because I was never in the principal’s office. When we were in fourth grade somebody had to read from the bible everyday. And the teacher picked the sessions. And this is something that’s really stuck with me, I’ve lived on it, it’s stuck with me. And when it came to my turn, she said to me, “Sylvia, I picked something from the old testament because I know you don’t read the New Testament.” Well, she could have done that but she didn’t need to bring it out in front of everyone. There were only three Jewish kids in that class. And I’ve acted on that ever since. I would never say, “Oh what did you do to your hand,” and point that out in front of everyone else. And I’m very, very liberal. There were only three Jewish families. One had a stationer’s store in town. The second had a store out of town. And my father was a salesman. He told us he got our land on auction but he never went to the auction because he knew they wouldn’t sell it to him because he was a Jew. And so he got another very respected man, who was a Jew but also a judge, and he bought the land at the auction for him.
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