Originally published in The Vidette-Messenger of Porter County on November 18, 1955.
Its Class Project
Students Help Defoliate Trees
By KAREN ANGLE
As winter arrives and the snow falls, the trees become barren. But this condition is due not only to the onslaught of the some 275 Valparaiso High school biology students.
Comprising nine different classes, these freshmen were required at the beginning of the year by their teachers, Miss Pat Bushong and Paul W. Miller, to collect, press, mount, and identify at least the 25 most common leaves in the state of Indiana. These collections were due today. Both the common and scientific names were to be given.
Some of the students turned in more than 100 leaves. The time collecting their material was spent entirely out of class. Many of the freshmen parents, in helping to collect, mount, and identify the leaves, claim to have learned almost as much as the students.
Slides of the 25 most common leaves have been made by Miller, and will be used during the coming week to test the students to see how much they have learned from their collections. After they have been graded, if there are enough outstanding collections, they will be displayed in the window of a local merchant, as has been done in the past.
Next semester the biology students can have their choice of writing a term paper or submitting a project having to do with any phase of life or living things.
Sponsored By Kazlauski
European Refugee To Live Here
A 29-year-old European refugee, sponsored by a RFD 2 couple, is expected to arrive in Valparaiso the latter part of next week, where she will find a home and a job awaiting her.
She is Miss Herta Deringas of Lithuania, and is being sponsored by Mr. and Mrs. Alex Kazlauski.
Mrs. Kazlauski met Miss Deringas at a refugee camp in Germany while she was on a trip to Europe in September of 1954 to visit with her son, Albert, who is a dentist in the Armed Forces.
Since Mrs. Kazlauski is a native of Lithuania, she was able to converse with the girl in her native tongue and found that the refugee was acquainted with August Pupelis, another Lithuanian, who was sponsored by the Kazlauskis more than five years ago. Pupelis now works for the Kazlauskis. When she returned to the states Mrs. Kazlauski and her husband started proceedings to have Miss Deringas come to the United States.
Mrs. Kazlauski came to the United States when she was 3 years old and her husband. Alex came to the states when he was 19 years old. Both are now American citizens.
Miss Deringas will live in the Kazlauski home and will work in the Vale City Packing company which is owned by the Kazlauskis, it was stated.
The Lithuanian woman is one of the 15 European refugees ― headed for Indiana homes ― that will arrive in New York Monday aboard the Navy Transport General Langfitt, it was announced today by the State department.
