The Memory

Securing adventuresome teachers who were willing to come halfway around the world to teach at a school which didn't even have an address was a major selling job. Though the makeshift, newly painted facilities with limited equipment and supplies looked like a palace to those of us who had worked so hard to get NIS started, I have often wondered what stateside teachers must have thought when they saw the facilities. Whatever was in their minds, they pitched in, decorated classrooms and got into the spirit of things.The open house the Sunday before allowed everyone to see the facilities; and on Monday morning when the ribbon was cut and all the students entered the school for the first time, I stood on the field and cried. What a day that was! The seemingly impossible had been accomplished.

Arlene  (Board Member, Parent) written in 1964, days after the new school had started

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