Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-13
LONE MALE ENTERS
IN GIRLS SCHOOL
"The COED" His Classmates
Dub Him-Course Is
Social Service.
Special p,sratch to The star.

epeciel Disratch to The star.
BOSTON, July 3 IN. A. N. Az
Leslie Flaksman the only male student
in Simmons College who intends to"
be q bachelor all his lie. says the
fe-,llty was more amazed than the
student body when he entered Sim
mons, and that the girls were more
self conscious than he was in class.
The one man among all those pretty
students declares he does not step out
with the girls. Simmons to him repre-
scnts business and he says, II ike 10
keep business separate. All my gHl
friends arc outside.
When his class held a dinner, he said.
the girls asked me to 60. I felt that
a man at a girls party would be as bad
as a girl at a stag affair. They tried
to convince me that it wouldn't 20 so
but I didn't 60
Didn't Bewilder Him.
At the class picnic it was different.
Flaksnan is an athlete and at the pic
mic he directed competitions.
Going to Simmons in the first place
never faxed him, because he was used
to girls. had directed groups OF girls
in the gymnasium, at camp and on
Fairgrounds. They didn't try to vamp
him
He is taking social service and in the
Simmons School for Social Service they
are very serious about their udieS.
The officials were surprised when
he registered He is working his
way through college has paid his
own way ever since his public
school education, has been gradu-
ated from Harvard distinguished HIM
self there as cross-country runner, went
to Harvard Law School, studied Hebrew
and taught in the Hebrew Teachers
College. in which he learned the Ian
guage during his Harvard days.
Finished One Year.
Deciding on social service as a career,
he says he could get more of what he
wanted quicker at Simmons than any
where else in Massachusetts. If he
didn't mind being the only man in Sim
mons the school was agreeable. He
has been there for one year.
During this time he has been awarded
five medals for bravery by members OF
the faculty He is known as The
Coed"
Yet the distinction is less trying than
It would seem because he is one of 90
at the school for social service which
has all its classes. not where the Sim
mons girls aggregate by the hundreds,
Somerset street.
Flaksman's family hoped he would be
rabbi. Flaksman himself thought h
would follow his big brother as a
lawyer
One of Harvards best distance run
ners, he won recognition on the track
and crosS-country teams and won the
two-mile race against Yale in his
senior year.
He defeated Fay Conger last Sum
ner IN the Boston Tercentenary meet
at Franklin Field, Dorchester. Conger
the national mile champion, was beaten
by Flaksnan IN a handicap race, one
of the very few defeats the lanky Chi
cagoan suffered in his running career.
Will Go to Palestine.
Next year when the first Jewish
Olympics take place in Tel-Aviv, the
capital city OF Palestine. FlakSman will
be member of the team of so athletes
representing America He will race
under the colors of the MaccabeeS a
neWly-tormed organization Of jewish
athletes il Boston.
In the past year or two he has taker
SO keenly to teaching children that a
little encouragement from the director
of the Homo for jewish Children. where
he is employed, decided him to social
service.
Although at Simmons he is 1.-The
most likable man" and voted by his
classmates the best dressed man, the
most handsome man, the most popular
man on the campus" and a host Of
other ''nosts," there is an odd slant to
the situation of being The Coed"
The laws governing Simmons Col
lege forbid any man receiving a de-
gree, except an honorary one. Found
ed for the education of women only,
no man has hitherto dared venture into
Simmons sacred halls except for a
special subject as special student.
FlakSman. will have to be satisfied
with his five cedals for bravery, plus a
certificate.
That doesn't bother him, either. He
has learned what he went to Simmons
to learn and the certificate credits him
with learning 1t.
(CopyrlGnt, 1891 by The rc-.h American
Newspaper Alliance, IncD