Kathrine Edith (Huck) Pfarr

After some time Mom and Grandma settled in Denver, Colorado. This move was planned because Mom had attended a grammar school in Shanghai operated by the Sisters of Loretto, and they had a college in Denver, Colorado. Mom also had an aunt and uncle in Denver.

The smiling image of mother and daughter warms my heart.

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Girl Travels Longest Way from Shanghai to Loretto

By Betty Caldwell

Rocky Mountain News Writer

An advocate of "the longest way around" is Miss Kathrine Huck, who traveled two thirds of the way around the world to come from her home in Shanghai to attend school in Denver.

Accompanied by her mother, Mrs. John W. Huck, she sailed from Shanghai to the Philippines and then to Singapore and Kuala Lampur, capital of Malaya. From there they went to Penang, Aden and Port Said and through the Mediterranean past Gibraltar to the Atlantic. They landed in New York and then journeyed to Denver.

Miss Huck, 18, has enrolled as a freshman at Loretto Heights College. She chose it, she explained in an interview yesterday, because she had attended the school in Shanghai operated by the Sisters of Loretto, and because Denver is the only place in this country where she has relatives. Mr. And Mrs. Otto Huck, 2633 W. 42d Ave., are her aunt and uncle.

It's Just Wonderful

Miss Huck hasn't had a chance to see much of Denver yet, but her mother said her frequent comment about the school and city is "It's just wonderful."

The pretty young girl's first purchase on arriving in this country was a stack of American fashion magazines, and she's looking forward eagerly to shopping. American clothes, she said, are difficult to find in Shanghai.

She expects to find shopping quite different here, since it was necessary to carry large bags of money on buying trips in Shanghai because of the inflation.

"When we left, two months ago, the exchange rate was 48,000 Chinese national currency to one American dollar," Mrs. Huck said. "My husband wrote that it's now 62,000."

Skating, Skiing on Her List

Miss Huck also is looking forward to skiing and ice skating, and to "all the milk she can drink."

Mr. Huck, a native of Denver, is general agent of a steamship company in Shanghai. Miss Huck was born in Cebu in the Philippine Islands and has been educated in the Philippines, China and California. She has crossed the Pacific six times and the Atlantic once.

Mrs. Huck, a native of Australia, has a strong admiration for her adopted homeland in the Orient.