Archive for July, 2013
Catha (Levinson) McSweeney My sister, Janet, and I went to Manumit, in Pawling, in the early 1930s starting, I think, in 1932), and left after 8th Grade. I’m delighted to find this website, but don’t recognize a single name -unless Hildy Lindlof is related to John L. and his sister(s) who were there, then. Like […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →Dogs & Cats of Manumit Hildy – That was pretty funny being DeeDeeShayShayBooBoo for a few minutes. Do you remember the game telephone where one person started a phrase and it was passed in whispers around the circle ? The initial phrase and end result were – usually hilariously – different. So it seems to […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →BROAD MEADOWS by Barbara Dutton Dretzin Note Added: We have a lack of clarity about when Broad Meadows first opened. Several of us think it may have been after the Christmas break of Dec ’41/Jan ’42. And that the oldest group from the main school (the Deltas) had one term there before the combined class […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →Much as I enjoy the exchange of e-mails from the Manumitters of later years, I can’t help but feel a little left out. My brother Donald and I, are survivors of Manumit Pawling starting in 1928. I’d like to hear why you all ended up at Manumit in the first place. Where did you come […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →On a lighter note -My folks always sent food responding to my descriptions of Manumit meals. (I think that Wally is right that he was the one of the few who liked the food. Anyway, I was not a member of that tiny minority!) The downside was that everyone knew that there was food in […]
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Manumit was a complicated school and many of us needed the nurturing we found there. This can't tell the story of Manumit but this blog does provide at least one flavor of our experience.