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tie story ueutscn nas to toll is ol particular interest in Rappahannock because of current efforts to restore tutd preserve the Scrabble School as both an historical site and as a Senior Center tor the county, '[hanks to support from the county and many donors, the renovation project is due to start next month.
Initially attracted to the story of Rosenwald and Washington tor fondly reasons (she is married to a Rosenwald great-grandson). Deutsch has tbund in it a prism for her own consideration of both American history and of philanthropy. “As the daughter of a U.S. Foreign Service officer. I spent my high school years in a French lycee; 1 was ignorant of the conditions surrounding the creation of the Rosenwald schools and was just vaguely fonuliur with the towering and controversial reputation of Booker T. Washington. As my interest in the subject quickened, t spoke with fondly members, read and studied and made repeated visits to do research in Chicago and 'fuskegee. In the foil of 2005 I worked on the book as a follow at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts."
Educated at Brown University (B.A. Russian Studies) and Harvard lM.A. Soviet Union Area Studies). Deutsch ^chairman of the grants committee of the Capitol Hill Community Foundation, which gives away over $200,000 a year in small grants, 'this has given her ample opportunity to appreciate Rosenwald’s observation that it is often harder to give money away wisely than to make it.
Deutsch lives in Washington. D.C. with her husband, a retired television director l he directed the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer for many years) and is the mother of three grown children - two of whom, she is proud to note, truyored in U.S. history.
Deutsch edited and wrote the introduction to Capitol Hill: Beyond the Monuments, a book of photographs published in 1996 by the Capitol Hill Arts Workshop.
Please join RAAC at the Rappahannock County Library to learn more about the “back story" behind Scrabble and the other Rosenwald schools.
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