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Marlene's schooling days started in Polk with kindergarten and then proceeded to the Lutheran school across the road for first through eighth grades. She lived across the road from the Zion Church. Throughout the years going to the Lutheran school, she remembers the country kids always bringing lunch pails, which they would store next to the door of the school for lunch. When it was lunchtime they would have cold sandwiches, apples, and sugar cookies that sometimes froze during the winter, while she ran home to a warm house with lots of food on the table. In 1937 the Lutheran school got sued for having classes in German. Since this was a German community, the residents didn't think much of it, but others, with rising tensions in Europe, were fearful of the German threat in the form of Adolph Hitler. The case went all the way to the Supreme Court and the school won. This didn't seem like such a big thing to Marlene at the time, mostly because she disliked learning German. |
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