Sarah Báldy, 1964 Sarah Elizabeth Báldy was born in 1940 in Hungary, and spent her early childhood in Hungary. Sarah, her parents and younger sister were “displaced persons” leaving Bremerhaven, Germany on the USS General Muir on 31 March 1951, bound for New York City. Their destination was listed as Detroit, Michigan. Sarah also traveled from Amsterdam, the Netherlands in 1962 on Pan American Airlines. She graduated from Wayne State University in Detroit in the early 1960s. Sarah was a French and German teacher in Oak Park High School in 1964 and 1965. She was married to Joseph Z. Renvez about 1965 and temporarily left teaching to raise her family – she and Joseph had four daughters. Sarah returned to the teaching profession in the late 1970s and I met her in the fall of 1990, in my senior year at Avondale High School. I was not privileged to know her even as well as I knew most of my other high school teachers. I took first-year German as an independent study, because th...
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