{"id":107,"date":"2015-10-16T15:00:59","date_gmt":"2015-10-16T15:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/Goucher\/?p=107"},"modified":"2025-07-26T15:54:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T19:54:09","slug":"lola-laubheim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/magazine\/lola-laubheim\/","title":{"rendered":"Lola Laubheim\u00a0\u201942"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United States entered World War II just months before <strong>Lola Fivel Laubheim \u201942<\/strong> graduated, so when she began looking for a job, \u201ca lot of jobs were related to the war.\u201d She joined the Women\u2019s Army Corps (WACS), the women\u2019s branch of the U.S. Army.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey put me in recruiting because they told me I was a model, but I think it was [because] I had a good vocabulary,\u201d the English major recalls, laughing.<\/p>\n<p>Now living in a retirement community in Sarasota, Florida, Laubheim spends her time teaching Shakespeare and memoir writing to fellow residents. She and her husband of 66 years, Charles Laubheim, who recently died, were always active and involved, she says.<\/p>\n<p>As a recruiter for the WACs, Laubheim and the other members of her team put on parades and musical performances. At each stop, they performed songs with lyrics such as: \u201cI used to pose as a model at Saks, but now I go as the pride of the WACs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Later, she was transferred to Binghamton, New York. She often escaped the summer heat at the USO, where she practiced archery\u2014a skill she had honed at Goucher. One day, a soldier criticized her aim, telling her, \u201cYou\u2019re not very good\u201d and demonstrating his own prowess.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, he was not as good as I,\u201d she says, describing how he sent an arrow through a nearby kitchen window. But what Charles Laubheim lacked in archery skills, he made up for in other ways.<\/p>\n<p>The two married and eventually moved to Baltimore. There, they raised three daughters, taught in the city public school system, and were \u201cvery political,\u201d Laubheim says. Among other things, Charles Laubheim helped start the Baltimore Teacher\u2019s Union, and, together, the couple joined an experimental, integrated community in northern Baltimore.<\/p>\n<p>In the 1950s, when Baltimore integrated the school system, Laubheim volunteered to teach in a historically black school. \u201cI really believe it was something we had to do,\u201d she says. \u201cI co-taught with a black teacher. We taught each other so much and became close friends.\u201d Her actions, she says, felt more like doing the right thing than being part of a historic movement. \u201cI will do anything to promote racial equality, any equality.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Although she loved the city schools, she found teaching there tough. \u201cI learned racism can work both ways,\u201d she says. \u201cIt got more and more difficult.\u201d She eventually transferred to Baltimore County, where she became a specialist and trained other teachers.<\/p>\n<p>Laubheim is a second-generation Goucher alumna: Her mother, <strong>Blanche Fivel<\/strong>, graduated in 1919. Her sister, <strong>Hilda Goodwin \u201943<\/strong>, also attended the college. \u201cI\u2019m very proud of my family,\u201d she says. \u201cThey were immigrants, and they worked hard, and they valued education.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Laubheim, who attended Goucher when its campus was located in downtown Baltimore, described herself as \u201cnot good\u201d at school. Despite that, and despite the fact that, as a Jewish student, she experienced some discrimination, she loved college. \u201cI had some wonderful professors, and I made wonderful friends, in fact, some lifelong friends,\u201d she recalls.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think there has been progress in the world,\u201d she says. \u201cIt\u2019s far from perfect, but there\u2019s been great progress.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teacher, activist, and pride of the Women\u2019s Army 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