away on Halloween of that year, the youngest of four brothers decided to go back to Korea. Upon his return, Sprauer met a Philippino woman and, after some time together, they moved to her native country in January 2008. Dale and Hillel Sprauer married in August of last year and now live in Angeles City, where the English teacher works at a private language academy. “It’s very different here,” said the former Clifton resident. “It’s a lot slower paced, a step back in time. Sometimes it’s aggravating, sometimes refreshing. “There are a lot of retirees here because it’s quite affordable,” he continued. “The house I bought only cost $37,000. The same house back home would be $400,000. A lot of the time, the water and electric go out, but all in all, it’s not bad.” The teacher recently accepted a job offer from a school system in
Sprauer with his wife, Hillel.
in Shenzen, China over one in Utsunomiya, Japan. That’s worlds away from Newark, NJ, where Sprauer was born and attended kindergarten and part of first grade. Disappointed in the public education their son received in Newark, his parents moved to Delawanna and enrolled him at St. Clare School
on Allwood Rd. He went there through eighth grade, attended Paul VI in ninth and transferred to Clifton High. “When I entered CHS, there were a lot of classes I had already taken as a freshman, so I got to skip those,” he remembered. “Paul VI was uniform and tie, but CHS was more relaxed and the students were friendlier.”
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