Ruth Silver
Born 1919

Passage from page 3 of Ruth's transcript:

I missed practically three-quarters of a semester at school. The truant officer came after me. Nobody was… there I was. I won the Brooklyn Championship yo-yo. Had my picture plastered all over the newspaper, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, as the champ yo-yo player in Brooklyn.
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