Article: SOME STUDENTS GET BEST HISTORY LESSON BY BECOMING BUDDIES WITH SENIORS; PUPILS LEARN ABOUT LIFE PENNING BIOGRAPHIES.(News)

Byline: Dennis McCarthy

You take Buddy Rodgers Walkway, and turn right at Mary Pickford Lane to find them - school kids sitting next to their elderly buddies Thursday, reading out of books the kids wrote in honor of the seniors.

Biographies they have been working on since the beginning of the school year when Angela Bronson's third-grade class at Balboa Elementary School left their playground and classroom behind, and entered the world of the elderly living in Eisenberg Village at the Jewish Home for the Aging.

Some 8- and 9-year-old boys and girls got the best history lesson in the world by becoming buddies with some seniors living at the end ...

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