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Immigrant Boy Wins Mayor’s Scholarship

October 10, 1928
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(Jewish Daily Bulletin)

An eighteen-year-old Jewish boy, who arrived from Russia only five years ago. has won the scholarship offered by the Mayor of Philadelphia for four years’ free tuition at the University of Pennsylvania. and the State scholarship of $100 a year during his college years.

The boy is Morris Sander. In one year he completed the fourth, fifth and sixth grades at the elementary school, in another two years he had graduated from Junior high school, receiving the American Legion award, and then he went to Northeast High School, where he won the two scholarships. Now he is taking a pre-engineering course at the university. Simultaneously with his public high school studies he attended Hebrew school and worked in the afternoons and on Saturdays in his uncle’s fruit store.

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