ADaily News New York, New York Monday, September 03, 1956
Voice of Brooklyn: Teen Honor Roll-No. 2
EDITORIAL: Voice of Brooklyn
We were pleased to print an item from Albany the other day about Mrs. Regina Fischer of 560 Lincoln Place. She had brought honor to Brooklyn by taking top place among 30 winners of Regents scholarships, worth $750 each, for advanced study in nursing.
Checking further into this remarkable 43-year-old woman's feat in a field usually reserved for youth, we learned that she is the mother of two children: Bobby, 13, and Joan, 19. Bobby is a national junior chess champion, who has held his own against adult whizzes around the U.S.A. and in Havana. Joan not only taught Bobby how to play chess, but is following in her mother's footsteps toward a nursing career. She will be graduated from Brooklyn College next January.
Just more proof, if any's needed, that it's a small minority—around 3%—of Brooklyn's teen-agers who ever get tagged with juvenile delinquency. The vast majority, like Bobby and Joan Fischer, are youngsters of whom we all can be proud.
