Over the next 11 months we will be sharing the Memoirs That Made Me Who I Am. These are compiled stories written about the life of a former Gallup resident Eugene Leone. Before his passing, he wrote, “It is with great delight that I share these stories from my heart, which have been inside for many years. My desire is that the reader would be able to go back to a time that was very real and may have been lost through the years.
Chapter Eight
The Great Rescue
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This next comic drama takes us back to a time before World War II, and the beginning of the “Great Depression.” My best friend was Edward DePauli. Ed was one grade below me all through Grammar and High School in a small and impoverished Catholic School. We were also both fortunate
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to have been accepted for enrollment at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska, a Jesuit run and taught school. The Jesuits are referred to by many Catholics as the “brains of the church,” but not without some criticism and resentment. One Saturday, Ed said he would really like to do a little
