"Lehman"

[Joel S. Berson]

At 9/15/2008 02:31 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:
>She reminded me that
>two of her nieces, whose high-school graduations we had attended, had
>gone to Lake-Lehman ['liy.m at n] High School in Harvey's Lake (on the
>shore of "the largest man-made lake in Pennsylvania!").

Wilson, are you sure they did not attend high school in Switzerland,
perhaps in Geneva?  (And that someone had not put the accent on the
wrong syllable?)

Joel

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