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riest Runs Russian School On This Side of Iron Curtain
By GERALD S. SNYDER
United Press International
New York - IUPD - In an old
gray mansion on New Yorks
Upper Park Avenue, a man
in flowing black robes and
long black beard picked up a
copy of a textbook published
in ftussia.
"Tfiey (the Communists)
mix politics in everything,"
he said. "In art, in history, in
geography, everywhere it's
possible-and sometimes where
it's Impossible.
"Here we are teaching with
big impartiality!"
Yugoslavia - born Anthony
Grabbe, an abbot in the Rus
sian Orthodox Church Outside
of Russia, was referring to a
unique institution - the only
Russian -American secondary
school this side of the Iron
Curtain.
In a converted, 52-room
four-story structure, which
once belonged to the widow of
a Boston banker, a small gym
nasia called St. Sergius High
School is turning out bilingual
American citizens with a flu
ent knowledge of the Russian
language, history, geography
and ancient Russian culture
all free of politics.
The four-year-old, little
known church school (actor
Yul Brynncr is on, the ad
visory board) boasts almost
double the amount of aca-
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birth of a son and heir to
King Hassan II and his 19-year-old
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The child will be named Mo
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was born Wednesday at the
royal palace of Mcshourar.
A daughter was born last year
to the royal couple.
demic units required by most
American secondary schools.
It meets the stiff require
ments of the New York State
Board of Regents, and even
stiffer requirements of Euro
pean schools.
But the way in is not easy.
Since the school first opened
its doors, 24 students have
been dismissed ("not brilliant
enough," said Abbot Grabbe)
and most who apply are dis
qualified because they lack
prc-high school scholarship.
For those who do get in,
the rewards are many. The
classes arc small, the stand
ards high. Between 8:20 a. m.
and 4:10 p. m., the school's
two-dozen teen-agers (most of
Russian extraction) handle
ponderous doses of religion,
literature, history, geography,
music and art. Some courses
are conducted only in Rus
sian, others in English.
"Russian is now the second
most important scientific
language in the world," said
Abbot Grabbe, the principal.
The churchman, who came centric," the abbot said. "They
KING OF HOBOS - Richard "Pennsylvania
Kid" Wilson, SS, Franklin, Pa., was elected
"King of the Hobos" at the annual Hobo
Days in Britl, la., Tuesday. Wilson cam
paigned on slogan "a smiling face always
wins the race." Reason for his smile is
obvious. They are, left to right, Rosalie
Bowman, Iowa's "Favorite Fanner's Daugh
ter," Ramona Mcylor, Iowa's Miss Universe
entry; and Carolyn Northway, Iowa's Miss
America entry. (UPI)
Educator Calls
Collegiate Set
Of Three Types
Ann Arbor, Mich. - IUPD -A
man who served for 23
years as president of the Uni
versity of Michigan says stu
dents usually can be classified
into three types.
They are the noisy ones, the
playboys (and girls), and the
dedicated ones, says Dr. Alex
ander G. Ruthven, president
emeritus, who was in office
1029-11)51. He describes them
in his autobiographical "Nat
uralist in Two Worlds" (Uni
versity of Michigan Press).
The noisy ones, said Dr.
Ruthven, "are determined to
be heard from the time they
enter college. Posing as au
thorities on almost everything
at home and abroad, they in
sist they should run the uni
versity. . . They usually claim
to be liberals and boast of
disrespect for authority. Com
mon status symbols are . . .
soiled shoes, jeans, shorts, un
tidy hair, and occasionally
mangy beards. These students
should disturb no one. One
can usually assume that their
activities represent growing
pains. My disappointment I
with them as I have seen them
later as alumni is that very
few become liberal leaders
and many become distressing
ly ultraconservativc."
The educator said the "play
boys (and girls)" had "in my
experience" been a small
group. He said that com
plaints are often heard about
the waste of money and lime
of instruction in trying to ed
ucate those whose ambition is
to get nothing more than a
'gentleman's grade' or to get
married."
'The critics fail to take into
consideration the number of
these students who find them
selves after they have entered
college and go on to success
as alumni and citizens," Dr.
Ruthven wrote.
'The dedicated ones," he
continued, "more than any
others make life worth living
for their teachers" because
they come to college "with
their eyes firmly fixed on at
least a general goal.
". . . Once called 'grinds'
by the playboys and consider
ed poor college citizens by
the noisy ones, these men and
women have in later years
gained (he more respectable
title of 'egg-heads.' Neither of
these terms is appropriate."
to the United States with post
World War II refugees from
Yugoslavia, estimated there
are about 2 million persons of
Russian ancestry now in the
United States, most in Penn
sylvania, California, New Jer
sey and New York.
Deny Past
"There was no single Rus
sian school for 300 years," he
said in his book-lined office,
a picture of metropolitan Ana
stassy, 90-year-old head of the
Orthodox Church Outside of
Russia, dominating one wall.
"The Russians are very ego-
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have denied the past. The
greatest contributions of Rus
s i a n science and literature
were pre-revolutionary."
The young (36) archpriest
got up from behind his desk.
A tall man with long and deli
cate features, he looked as
though he'd stepped out of an
El Greco painting. "Pushkin,
Lermontov, Gogol, Turgenev,
Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, Mende
leev," he said with a wave of
his arm.
All of their works have
been "politicized," he said.
"Here we want to back the
humanities for the humanities.
Science for science. We offer
no special lessons about Com
munism. Just logic. It is a
question of belief. I believe
there is a God. They (Com
munists) believe there is
none."
Monastery Printed
Abbot Grabbe said that an
orthodox c h u r c h-connected
monastery at Jordanville,
N. Y., prints many of the
school's Russian texts. "You
don't need all kinds of books,"
he said. "Just truth."
Now, the abbot is busy with
plans for a school of higher
learning. "The New York
Russian and Slavic Institute"
will start in the high school
in September. "It's mostly for
American youths wishing to
receive appropriate, qualified
and impartial instruction in
the Slavic and Russian fields,"
he explained.
Russian-born Dr. Vsevolod
Nikolaev of New York uni
versity will head the institute
and Countess Alexandra Tol
stoy, is expected to be among
the faculty. "The shortage of
specialists in the Russian
field is one of the important
handicaps for American dip
lomats, policy makers, jour
nalists, advocates of disarma
ment and those working for
the promotion of peace," Ab
bot Grabbe said.
The Orthodox Church Out
side of Russia has severed all
ties with the Patriarchate in
the Soviet Union, he added.
"The representative between
the church and the govern
ment is a man named Kar
poff, a layman who is the
head of the atheistic program
of Russia."
Thus, he said, co-existence
is not possible. "This high
school and the institute is."
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