I believe learning is a game, a wonderful game.” “A new school where special people like you can learn at their own pace, in their own way, in whatever manner suits them. “But it’s not the school’s fault.”īoth men chuckled at this, and Dottie relaxed a little. “Do you sometimes get bored here in school?” he asked.ĭottie looked at the principal nervously, but he smiled and nodded encouragement. You’ve taught yourself Latin and Greek? I understand you do translations?” Fourteen years old and in eleventh grade. Phillips has told me how very bright you are. “I’ve heard a lot about you, Dolores,” he said. This, more than anything, was the most powerful sign of Mr. Dottie had never seen anyone with a suntan in March before. Ellingham leaned forward, resting his elbows on his knees and bringing his large, suntanned hands together in a knot. Phillips’s desk.ĭottie sat, and the famous Mr. Ellingham said, using an open hand to indicate the empty chair in front of Mr. Ellingham has something wonderful to tell you. He was the kind of person you might imagine would actually be on money. Albert Ellingham owned American Steel, the New York Evening Star, and Fantastic Pictures. He actually was someone from the movies, in a way. He was just like someone from the movies. He sat off to the side, bathed in a striped beam of sunlight from the window blinds. There was someone else there as well-a man with salt-and-pepper hair and a marvelous gray suit. Phillips, the principal, was sitting at his massive desk. It was usually to find something or just to see if it could be done. Dottie had been in every corner of this school, had worked out every lock and peered in all the cupboards and closets and nooks. She had broken into the library to look for a book, but she was pretty sure no one knew about that. This time, Dottie wasn’t sure what she had done. Not out of arrogance, but because it was true.
“You can’t go around acting like you’re smarter than everyone else.” Dottie would get called down for more complicated matters: designing her own chemistry experiments, questioning her teacher’s understanding of non-euclidian geometry, or reading books in class because there was nothing new to be learned, so the time might as well be spent doing something useful.
Photographic image of letter received at the Ellingham residence on April 8, 1936.įATE CAME FOR DOTTIE EPSTEIN A YEAR EARLIER, IN THE FORM OF A call to the principal’s office.ĭolores Epstein wasn’t sent for any of the normal reasons-fighting, cheating, failing, absence. Chapter 17 Federal Bureau of InvestigationĬhapter 20 Federal Bureau of InvestigationĬhapter 21 Federal Bureau of InvestigationĬhapter 23 Federal Bureau of Investigation
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