Farid Asmar:  

In 1960, At age 14, I came to North High School, on an F-1 Student Visa & registered in 10th grade. I was one of two who came on an F-1 Visa to the U.S.A.; the other one was the Prince of Thailand & He also attended North High. My trip from Jerusalem, Jordan to Columbus, Ohio took three days. I flew from Jerusalem Airport to Beirut, Lebanon. I slept one night, then I flew to Amsterdam, Holland, & I slept for i night, then I flew to JFK, N.Y. then flew by helicopter to La Guardia Airport & then boarded TWA to Columbus. I attended North High for three years & graduated in 1963. Even though I did not make too many close friends, but I loved every day that I spent there & I loved all of my classmates & my Teachers that were very kind & nice to me. My homeroom was 129 & my homeroom teacher was Mrs. Adams. I remember dearly Mr. Horn, Mr. Wolf, Mr. Dupre, Mr. House, Mr. Decatur, Mrs. Poling, Mrs. Conrad, & Miss Bontempo. I also remember dearly my classmates Mike Marshall, Mike Leyshon, Jim Alley, Pamela Stewart, Karen Calhoun, James Clark, Sylvia Cox, Kim Crawford, Joyce Cotrtrill, Nancy Cory, Ken Cramer, Jim Davis, Janice Courtright, Kathy Dalmy, Sandy Dunleavy, William Graham, John Greene, Maribeth Kunze, Anne Mercer, Phyllis Secaris, Cynthia Stark, Jeene Greenlee, Barbra Nice, & judy Wilson. During those three years I lived with an uncle of mine for 6 months, then for another six months with an 83-yr old lady named Henrietta, who lived in White Hall, Bexly. Then I lived with Mr. Wolf & Mrs Wolf, my chemistry Teacher for 10 months, then they move to San Jose Ca, & the last I lived with Pater & Susan Eikenberry (He was studying Law & she was studying Social Work at Ohio State University. My uncle had moved to Puerto Rico, so when I graduated He sent me, as a graduation present $200.00 & an Airplane ticket to PR to spend the summer there with him before I go to San Jose, CA where I had a scholarship at San Jose State. I registered in The Inter American University of Puerto Rico to learn Spanish, I liked it & I continued to finish my BA in English Literature with a Minor in Science & a Minor in Mathematics. I finished my BA in yrs. & a half at age 19 After I graduated I was offered a job as a 5th Grade Teacher by Mrs Laura Rapp, the Director of an Elite Private School known as Consuelo Escalona Private School which was owned by the Number one Educator in PR, Mrs. Ana G. Mendez, who owned several Schools & Universitie...Expand for more