Evening star., 1939-06-20

What I miss most is that I
can't get out and play baseball
with the fellows these nice days"
That is the chief concern of Law
renee Levine, 10, of 764 Princeton
place NV, smiling be-spectacled
student who has successfully bat
tied the handicap of disease-stom-
ach disorder and arthritis-for three
years and will receive diploma
from Central High School tomor-
row despite the fact that he has
not attended classes for three years
Young Levine, stricken with a
stomach disease at the end of the
school term in June, 1885, after
completing most of his high school
work, has not returned to class
room since. But he will get his
diploma because he completed the
necessary work through home-in-
ton of Carl Stalcap. teacher in
the Handicapped Children's Prof.
ect of the w. P. A.
Mr.. Stalcap, visiting his pupil
twice weekly, spent about an hour
with Lawrence each trip, teaching
him advanced ancient history, Eng
lish, economics and sociology. The
home classes have been in progress
since last December. Young Le-
vine proved an apt pupil. His in
Structor said his grades were far
above average.
Not Excited About Diploma.
Lawrence wasn't too excited about
getting his diploma. or else he was
extremely modest when interviewed
yesterday. AS he posed for photo
graphs in the front room of his
home, he said The school work
came rather easily because I had
plenty of time to study and prac-
tically no distractions to bother me.
1 guess that's why it seemed easy
to complete the work
He will not attend graduation eX-
ercises at the school. but Mr.. Stall
cap will personally present his di-
ploma at his home Witnessing the
occasion will be his mother, Mrs.
Matilda Levine, and his only sister,
Sally, 13, arriving from girls
school at Glen Ridge, N. J. The
father has been dead IL years.
Mrs. Levine, bookkeeper in the
warrants division of the Treasury
Department, found out through her
work that the W. P A. was sponsor
ing a crippled children's project in
home instruction. She made ar
rangements to have Lawrence get
a teacher.
Lawrence was born in Brooklyn.
but came to Washington in 1884
and had his high school credits
transferred from New York to Gen.
trail High School here. 1t was at
the end of his first school year in
the Capital that he was stricken.
He spent four months at Johns
Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, and
about seven weeks in Kendall House
Sanitarium.
Had Faith in Himself.
Doctors, he said, held little hope
for his ultimate recovery, but he
kept his courage and had faith in
himself. Arthritis joined the
stomach ailment to make his plight
worse and keep him in bed for
many months. Today he is showing
signs of rapid improvement and he
looks to the future with complete
confidence for recovery.
He is able to 60 to the movies
occasionally, but he can do nothing
strenuous in the way OF exercise.
Ho 1opUS m "olav ha Saho II opa RIM
around with the boys" but he
knows he'll have to wait a while
longer and keep fighting to get well.
His three-year siege with illness
has left him thin, but his spirit
has double strength.
my future" he said, "is still
uncertain, but if I go on to college,
I think I'll take some kind of engi-
neering. I don't know just what