“Dropout Winner Anyway”
Lawrence Journal-
PORTLAND, Ore (AP) – Before 4,000 elementary school principals comedian Danny Kaye confessed that “I was terrible in school.”
Even so, Kaye, a high school dropout, was honored by the principals for his work for UNICEF, the United Nations’ International Children’s Fund. Kaye has devoted 12 years to raising money for the group, which recently won the Nobel Peace Prize, and to entertaining children around the world.
He got messages from President Johnson and his childhood music teacher in Brooklyn’s Public School 149, Miss Peggy Cress. She told him: “You have come a long way.”
“I was terrible in that class,” Kaye said. “I was terrible in school.”