Show Immigrant Boy Mender of Shoes Works Way to Doctors Doctor's Degree geL ge- ge L' L LI I 1 I I L 4 NichollS hammers his way through Exiled From Asia Boy Started Career as By NEA Service BOSTON From a mender or of soles to a mender of bodies was the drea dream 1 of a a. penniless Immigrant boy years ago And the dream is coming true toda today for tor Nicho NichOlas as Is building a business and professional career at the same time and making one pay for the theother other A second year student at tIme the Boston university medical school he also supports himself and a family of four b by worling long hours in his little shoe repair shop Born in a Greek Creek city in in Asia Minor Nicholas arrived in this country at the ago age ot of 14 with nothIng but ambItion all his mone money having ha been used up to pay his steerage passage Life never had treated him kindly I EXILED FROM ASIA My ly father he explained lost t this his business when I was a child and we were expelled from Asia Minor b by the Turks We struggled back toward the homeland getting no further than ancient famous as the home of Sappho Here lIere I got work worl in nn an apothecary shop owned by tIme the only doctor of tImES the Island lie fired my I ambition to follow in his proCession and America seemed to to- to tome me the th place where my ambitions could mo 0 realized In 1918 1916 I 1 left my refugee home borrowed the money to come cometo to America and made m my wa way to Lynn Mass I worked for fOl half a a. yeas yeas' In a shoe factory actor for four dollars a week weel Not used usel to long long- hours and heavy I became became- Ill and landed in a ital where I spent what little I ha hail l accumulated accumulated ac- ac cumulated getting back m amy health FINALLY FOUND JOB Penniless and homesick tIme the boy wandered into Boston too proud to beg too weak to work and too dig dis- to care whether he llor ll d or lied died Finally ho found a job iob dishes in a hotel food and lie he regained his health Four FoUl years earR after his arrival arr here ho had saved some somo mone money and borrowed bor- bor rowed enough more to brin his people to America ThIs made him l the guardian of a father and mot mother mote e and two young sisters and again lie he was without funds I hall bad lots Jots ot of nerve nel at least ladis lau for fOl in the face ot of time the hugE debt I a already rad owed owel I bor- bor ro more mort at rt n. high rate of interest nn and 1 ret fort myself up In n a a. shoe repairing shop In three years I paId laid all m may and was able to send m nn- nn sisters to school and amI myself to Boston M My former creditors declared lYme le a born business man and offered of- of or to loan me more money for fora a chain store proposition 1 de- de I de-I dined cUned because m my amb ambItion to be a a. doctor was too strong to make malo me regard the shoo business as aim nn I timing thing more than a means to an endI endI end I wanted to restore human be be- be I lags ings not shoes And when I get through leal school I shan shall sa say goodbye e to my old benefactor the work bench though I shall never cease to be grateful to It Is specializing on pediatric tries and lIpIds holds that children offer a more interesting field for service than Luau any other in the pro pro- fesson Old 01 1 bodies like old shoes can bo be patched up for a a. while but bill they soon become useless ho he said new material there Is b no I to what can be lone done In fn the wa vay of pel perfecting and strengthen strengthen- iuS' iuS I |