Found one girl who does not turn up her nose at test tubes and who enjoys dissecting cats long deceased!
She is Bonita Jaffe, attractive nineteen-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Jaffe of Vancouver. B. C., and of two feminine Jewish pre-med students at the University of Washington. And believe it or not she delights in spending long hours in the laboratory when other co-eds go canoeing these warm Spring days.
"Ever since I was eight or nine years old," Miss Jaffe explained "I’ve set my heart on exploring the mysteries of science. And even though I’m the only girl in some of my classes and I spend every day from eight to five in the laboratory or in the classroom, I wouldn’t give up my work for anything-even canoeing."
The ability to name the properties of any chemical or lo casually list all bones in the human body are not the only accomplishments of this brown-eyed Jewish miss. She sings and plays the violin, and names tennis and swimming as her hobbies.
And her ambition is to be Vancouver’s first woman physician.
Her father is president of the Sharey Tzedeck Congregation, Vancouver’s only Orthodox synagogue; is a leader in Talmud Torah, B’nai B’rith and Zionist activities; was a delegate to Zionist affairs, and to the recent Canadian Jewish Congress and is interested in juvenile delinquency work.
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