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A New Life In America |
When Mildred and Ester arrived in Portland, Maine a cousin from Grand Rapids, Minnesota met them and drove them back to Duluth, Minnesota. When they arrived they found that their father was unemployed and could not support them. To allow for the continued education of Mildred and Ester arrangements were made for them to work as servants for families in the Duluth area.
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| Mildred's friends from Proctor High School |
Mildred begin working as a maid for Dr and Mrs. Laird at the Nopeming Tuberculosis Sanitarium, south of Duluth, Minnesota. The Lairds made arrangements for Mildred to enroll at Proctor High School, in Proctor, Minnesota just south of Duluth. While working for the Lairds Mildred was encouraged to study and enjoy life with other high school students who were living at Nopeming. She lived with the Lairds during her high school years from 1933 until graduation in 1937.
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| College Graduation December 1941 |
Dr. and Mrs. Laird were a very encouraging couple and with their moral and limited financial support Mildred enrolled at the University of Minnesota in 1937 as a Freshman majoring in dietetics. As many students during the Depression Mildred was assisted through a New Deal program and worked here way through the University of Minnesota and graduated in December, 1941 with a degree in Dietetics. Following a year internship Mildred joined the Army as a Lieutenant and in 1943 met her future husband, Omer "Bud" Hall another Army Lieutenant. They were married in 1944 and their son, Joe Hall was born in 1945.
Over the years Mildred's story of her Russian life was rarely told and became a very dark memory.
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