a) in 1999, a record of my being enrolled and attending Russian in 1960 --
evening cl***** --was verified...
1. Early in 1959, Col. Doyle and his military friends asked me to learn
Russian. They had nobody in the area interested in the sciences who knew
any Russian. They knew I was conducing cancer research experiments by
1959,
thanks to Dr. Michaelson, who organized equipment and tests, etc. for
bright
students at my high school interested in science -- but again, especially
for me (by the way, nobody can find the man's name anymore in the records,
though he went on to attend im****tant conferences in radiation and
genetics...yet we have an extensive article on Michaelson and his
im****tant
visit to my high school in my national award-winning high school
newspaper..). Michaelson organized interest in my work and in equipping
the
school with advanced science equipment.
2. I told the retired officers that I had to have an instructor.
3. I had to attend cl***** during the day at high school. I could not
attend cl***** in Russian during regular high school class hours.
4. They finally found someone who could teach at night ---Dr. Concevitch.
5. Dr. Concevitch taught me privately in1959.
6. In 1960, the night class at the college finally 'made.' I was enrolled
and attended as often as I could. Due to many events (I haven't gone into
detail, but this included science fairs at various levels at night, etc.
throughout the state, fund-raising events, a 'brain bowl' event, and
finally
the International science fair), I missed too many cl***** and changed to
'audit.'
7. I audited cl***** in 1961, as my mother's letter indicates.
8. The Russian night class was created expressly because I couldn't go to
day cl*****.
9. Of course, other students had to attend so the class would 'make' -- or
otherwise, it would have still been private tutoring, a drive to Sarasota,
which required a car trip, whereas in 1959-60 I lived only two blocks from
the community college, an easy walk.
10. It was expensive getting private lessons from Dr. Concevitch, though I
didn't have to pay for them. It cost my sponsors just as much to have him
teach at night at the college. The fees also that I should have paid,
were
paid for me.
I never thought I'd have to go into such meticulous detail for such a
simple
matter. I do appreciate the efforts made to obtain records from the past.
I do not understand why hostile comments have to accompany these efforts.
Had I said "Oswald killed JFK" I believe hostility toward me would be
markedly less. I wasn't lying when I said the course was organized
especially for me. It was the simple truth.
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