High School
Marjorie Brockman
— I was at Brooklyn College from '42 to '46, having come from Walton High School where I knew Marion Isaacson and [Marion] Greenstone. There were four or five of us at Walton with whom I was friendly who were also politically alert. I graduated at fifteen from Walton in 1941. It was assumed that I was going to college, yeah. I was very smart.
Phyllis LeShaw
— I went to Erasmus Hall when they had a gorgeous campus and I was in the choral club there. When I was thirteen, I auditioned for the Philharmonic Scholarship Society, which my father got for me. And I auditioned and I got it. And they were going to groom me for opera and so I got piano lessons and other musical lessons, theory, etc. but they didn't want to train young voices. They thought it would be a bad idea to train a voice under sixteen.
When I was sixteen the Scholarship Committee dissolved, of course. It was during the War. And then I got another scholarship from the National Music League that also my father got me that audition and I studied with Ira Heiskell and Amy Heiskell for the next twelve years. But meanwhile, I went to Brooklyn College, my favorite place in the whole world.
Marion Greenstone
— And then when I was sixteen we moved back to the Bronx and I went to Walton High School, as I told you, because that was right across the street. And it was very different from Beacon High School, which had maybe five hundred students whereas Walton was a huge school and it was an all girl's school. But I managed to adjust pretty well. I think I was on the Student Council or something.
Elliot Levine
— I went to P.S. 10 in Coney Island. I went to Abraham Lincoln High School, which is a very good school. I spent one term at City hoping to be an engineer. That was one of my early interests. But I was weak in mathematics and I was advised that I'd probably be better off in some other field. So I switched to Brooklyn, became a psychology major and never did anything with that.