So, Harvey [my husband] and I, he in his naval uniform, very good looking, and me as a Bryn Mawr college junior, we get in the car, and we go out to the Main Line to take an apartment. We went to every single apartment between Overbrook, Pennsylvania and Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. All the way out Montgomery Avenue and in every one, we were turned down because we were Jewish. It was so blatant. I went into Taylor and there was somebody in the office there, I don't remember who. I explained that we could not find a place to live, and that we needed someplace. She said, "Well, you know, we have a graduate house on Old Gulph Road, which used to be the rectory of a church, of the church there, right across from the old gym. Mrs. Shumway owns that house and maybe there's something available. So, we went up to this old house, and met Mrs. Shumway. We explained what we were looking for, and she said, "Actually, I have an apartment on the first floor that's available." "It's available?" "Yes." So, she showed us it was, you know, an old house. But, we had almost the whole first floor. Sparsely furnished but who cared?

-Nona Abrams