Street Cleaner Cum Laude

In Brooklyn, where anything can happen, a street cleaner last week graduated magna cum laude from Brooklyn College. After a hard day's work in the gutters of Bensonhurst, bespectacled young Isadore Goldstein, 23, took off his whitewing uniform, put on cap & gown, marched up to Brooklyn College's commencement platform to take a B.A. and a graduate scholarship for proficiency in social science. Next day he went back to his street sweeping.

A reporter found him beside his street cleaner's can, brushing off the northwest corner of 61st Street and 20th Avenue. Scholar Goldstein greeted him with a professional outdoorsman's observation: "The average citizen doesn't realize it, but already some leaves are falling."

Mr. Goldstein attended evening classes for seven years. He plans to go on studying for a Ph.D. and become a teacher. Meanwhile he will clean streets (until he gets an appointment as a U.S. junior economist, for which he passed a Civil Service examination). Said Street Cleaner Goldstein: "I know the job hasn't the requisite prestige for social standing in the eyes of the public, but it's honest travail."

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