Mr. Jenner.

Did they have any particular characteristic other than that they were a group of young adults?

Mrs. Paine.

They were a group of older young adults. They particularly needed to make social contact and some of them just to learn how to date and meet.

Mr. Jenner.

Were they likewise people who had come from Russia or Poland?

Mrs. Paine.

No, no; they had been born here.

Mr. Jenner.

They were apparently disadvantaged in some respect. Would you indicate what that was?

Mrs. Paine.

I felt they were not as able a group. The individuals in the group were not as able as the ones in the Golden Age Club, and they needed a great deal of help in their planning and in achieving simple party.

Mr. Jenner.

Your work actually was group activity, singing groups, dancing groups or activities, rather, was it?

Mrs. Paine.

Not particularly singing and dancing. Again, of course, it was liaison between this club and the Y. But leadership here was more in the role of enabling them to achieve what they wanted than being the visible head of the group. The group had its own president and officers.

Mr. Jenner.

Did you have to do any teaching in connection with either the Golden Age or the young adults group?

Mrs. Paine.

No.

Mr. Jenner.

The third was, I think you described it, as the lounge.

Mrs. Paine.

Yes; it was an informal lounge for members of the Y. They could come in and play chess, checkers, talk, read magazines. This required the least from me in the leadership.

Mr. Jenner.

It was in this connection that you acquired some interest, or at least you attempted to acquire a facility in the Yiddish language?

Mrs. Paine.

Yes; because of my work with the Golden Age Club. I had already studied some German so that I understood. The two languages are similar enough that I understood some of the content of their business meeting which they conducted in Yiddish.

Mr. Jenner.

I have forgotten now, if you will forgive me. By this time had you taken a course in Russian at the university?

Mrs. PAINE. No; I hadn't.

Mr. Jenner.

Had these activities at least in part that we have gone through this morning awakened, or stimulated your interest in the study of Russian?

Mrs. Paine.

No; had these activities?

Mr. Jenner.

Yes.

Mrs. Paine.

Stimulated my interest?

Mr. Jenner.

Yes.

Mrs. Paine.

No.

Mr. Jenner.

I will jump way back now, go backward a little bit to your pre-Antioch College period of activity.
Do you recall that as early as 1945--1946, that you were part of or at least engaged in the activities of the World Truck Farm in Elyria, Ohio?

Mrs. Paine.

Wolfe is the name. It is the man's name; the owner's name; Wolfe Truck Farm.

Mr. Jenner.

This was a private---

Mrs. Paine.

It is just a private farm; yes.

Mr. Jenner.

I thought it was an activity, and it arose out of the fact that the word "World" instead of "Wolfe" was furnished to me.

Mrs. Paine.

Oh, no.

Mr. Jenner.

Mr. Wolfe's Truck Farm?

Mrs. Paine.

It was. This was a group of girls and all from Columbus, Ohio, all from the school I was just entering at that time, and at a time when labor was very hard to find, just at the end of the war.

Mr. Jenner.

You say entering a school at that time.

Mrs. Paine.

I was about to enter high school.

Mr. Jenner.

That was high school?

Mrs. Paine.

And we earned a small amount for our work there, and we felt patriotic in helping to supply labor where it was needed, because so many of the young men were away at war, or in the Army.