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THE HERALD Wednesday January Page IS This man never forgot his smalltown past Last week I mentioned a young man from my hometown in East Germany who ran away to America Of course many boys dreamed of going to America in the 19th century He was one of the few who went and not only did he manage to leave but he acquired a great fortune and became an outstanding citizen of his adopted country His story deserves to be told Not quite 100 years ago there was a teenager in Geithain with the name Paul Guenter He was a smart boy but his parents were very poor and there were many other brothers and sisters The money was simply not there to give Paul an education Besides he was one of those who are considered to be trouble makers He did not know what he wanted but neither did he have any choices The class ridden small town community surrounding him was so confining and dampening to his spirit that he made more enemies than friends He was a misfit and people were suspicious of him After he had left school at the age of he tried several trades but he was too argumentative and rebellious for his masters and they never kept him for long Eventually with the help of a relative who was to regret that he helped him he secured a job in the local post of One day not long after he had started to work there he vanished and nobody saw him again It was discovered that money was miss ing the accounts of the post of fice and he was blamed for taking it The amount missing was small but it was enough to brand him a criminal in the memory of the town Many years went by New ideas and new inventions occupied the minds of the people in the big cities People lived in a new cen now In Geithain however people still talked about the boy who had run away The Great War started and lasted a long time en Learn to Drive and Survive NEW CLASSES START JAN 24th WEEKS Wed a Thurs 630938 Over 300 graduate recommend I I J Young Drivers of Canada Training centres coast to coast Driver training for oil ages Free 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upgrade the education of the children of Geithain The letter stated further that Mr Guenter was going to select the architect and that he would want to be involved in every aspect of the building of the school in order to get what he wanted The school was to be called Paul Guenter School The people of the town in par ticular the ones that remembered the difficult lad were stunned Nothing like that had ever happen before Right away a fierce con troversy started as to wisdom of accepting the gift of a- criminal Some thought it outrageous to have the name of a thief over the door of the school their children would have to go to Others thought it most handsome and generous of this man who had not exactly been a favorite of the town to lavish some of his wealth on the place he had grown up in In the end the sheer magnitude of the gift quieted all discussions and within a few short years a building rose above the modest roofs of Geithain the likes of which did not exist anywhere It was opened in by the tall foreign looking donor with many a celebration and became at once the pride of the town Paul Guenter School boasted a clocktower so high it was visible from our farm three kilometres away In rough weather when my For All Your Fine China Silver Crystal Gillware MAIN ST MILTON 8780050 brother was brought to school by buggy or sleigh I went with him just to have a look at the huge building adorned with art and in I was finally old enough to enter there myself I loved this school more than any of the others I went to later Mr Guenter the boy who ran away with stolen money had succeeded together with the architect and an army of artists to erect an edifice that pro claimed the ennobling power of knowledge over Ignorance LOOK GOOD FEEL GREAT Mate Female TOR Trial Membership I I I fMuOiM J WORK THAT BODY OVUM STOUT 8770771 ALL SEASONAL MERCHANDISE 50 70 RALPH LAUREN SWEATERS REG 11995 REG 8495 REG 7995 Shirts Reg I Pants Qn Reg 5995 Girls ESPRIT Cords 60 Reg 5995 NOW 1998 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