European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 04, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 18 the stars and stripes saturday june 4, 1977 new York aunt Marcla who was babysitting was Reading the newspaper White her Nephew Eric Jablow 20 months around the room in diapers. He came Over to his aunt and put a hand on Anad in the newspaper. The milk bottle shifted around and the baby spoke out of one Side of his Mouth. Aunt Marcla tuna fish 29 cents a time after this the Mother Sandra Jablow looked in on the baby one was sitting up in his crib taking his bottle with a copy of the Reader s digest in his Lap. Wherever he was taken the child would be chanting out every logo he saw. At first his parents thought that Eric could have been mimicking things he had seen on television. One Day however during the period when they were living in Brookline mass., they were driving along a Road called Stor Row drive and the child fidgeting in a car seat looked out the window at a sign that said. "25 Mph and he said Twenty five. father Samuel Jablow a paper sales Man looked at his wife Sandra a former Legal Secretary. They had a kid who was under 2 years old and was doing phonetic by himself. When the Jab lows returned to Brooklyn to the Canarsie Section they began to leave books around the House to see How the baby reacted. When Eric was 3v4, he approached a Book published to help parents work a mathematics with their children. He picked it up took it to his room and some time later he came out and looked around for some thing More 5, the boy tried Spanish and did Well with it but not As Well As he did with the parents began leaving books with Mure numbers and Here at 6 years of age was Eric Jablow sitting in a House in Brook Lyn and learning calculus by himself. The parents were afraid that the books they were giving the child had no pattern to them an would harm him. He was not yet in Kinder Garten and he appeared to be whisking through calculus. But was he the parents did t know. What s calculus the father said. From Here on the Only place in which Eric Jablow Ever could have made it was in a Large City. If the child had been stuck Outin the suburbs the parents say. He would have been Cut Down somewhere during the12 years of regular schooling schooling he could not have handled because of the bore Dom. Yet there would be no Way out simply for physical reasons travel the boy Wouldhave to go to school in the place where he lived. In a place structured for everybody., but in a great City such As new York there always is a place for the special. There i always a person who has knowledge about a particular Field no matter How extraordinary or there always is a person who knows somebody who knows these things. An there Are places where these people can be located places near you and so you have Inthis City actors learning to act and Young people learning fashion design in Public High schools built Only for that and. In Brooklyn near Eric Jablow s House there is a Fine Cit College a big College Brooklyn College and one Day Samuel Jablow brought his so there to see the chairman of the mathematics Eric did some calculus for the chair Man a professor wandered in from the Hall Way. His name was George Booth and he watched with interest As this kid showed that he clearly was an a student in calculus. How Long has the Young Man been study ing calculus Booth asked. Three months the father ," Booth said. Booth suggested that they bring you Geric to a saturday morning graduate school lecture he gave at the College. It would give the kid something to look Forward to during a week of trying to survive in grammar school. The Mother was hesitant. The child was t even 8 years old. She took him the first time to see if it would be All right. Her son sat quietly through the lecture and the remained silent while other people an swered questions and then the professor called on Eric. His Mother remembers the answer Herson gave to this question about calculus. Eric s answer was too professor nodded cleared his Throat and said to the class let me put this answer into simpler terms for for an entire term. Eric attended this four hour course in a College lecture Hall each saturday. His father sat alongside professor Booth read in a Mathe Matics journal about a study being done on child math prodigies by or. Julian c. Stan Ley at Johns Hopkins University. He knew somebody at Fordham University in the Bronx who was going Down to Johns hop Kins. Booth gave the person from Fordham some material on Eric Jablow. Johns hop Kins Stanley contacted the parents saw the child and gave them advice take him out of school after the sixth Grade and put him into Harvard and yales took one look at the application and said yes Send him boy was now All of ii years old. He would get picked up by the police if he were wandering around Harvard Square on his Way to an evening lecture someplace. So Theja blows sent their son to the neighbourhood school Brooklyn College where this month at is Summa cum laude Eric Jablow be comes the youngest graduate in the 130-Yearhistory of new York s Public higher educational enters Princeton next fall As the youngest doctoral candidate in the univ sri he was found the other Day in the Kitchen of the Jablow s two family Brick House. Eric Jablow is Chubby Black haired Wear glasses and has pimples. He was shy and uneasy As a visitor who went to High Schoola full five years spoke to the family. I sat in that class with him and i remember the one morning they were talking about do looks on the computer and i did know what they were these do looks Samuel Jablow Are they a Cereal the boy s aunt Jablow twisted in his chair. They were making fun of his , what Are they then he was asked. How do you even spell it he looked Down and kept flipping a set of House keys in his do you like to do go to the movies Eric was asked1."i like some movies he said. What ones have you seen lately he was asked. He looked away. He seemed embarrassed. I m too Young to get into a lot of these movies the boy said. I can t even get a Job this summer. Have to be 16 for Well that do you do with All this math Eric was asked. He shrugged. Can you figure a system for Roulette no not Roulette he said. "1 went to the track you look at the past performance Fig ures yes. I did. The first thing i did was find out if the figures had been compiled on the same Type of a track. So i knocked out All performances on a Muddy track. Then Imade my selections. I picked two races in a Row stood up. I bet one More race. The horse i picked was ahead All the Way an then i saw the Man pull him Back. 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