Here in Dallas, actually, I was going from Florida to California, but my step-daughter, which is a daughter of my husband's first wife, asked me if I wanted to stop here in Dallas and maybe we can live together. So, I did and I arrived Dallas and I bought a house, so I settled here and on Hanover Street. It is my own house, in my name, and where I met a few Russians here, but deep regret--there was not a real Russian church, which I miss very much. It is in English language which certainly is not the same as your own language, the church has to be a Russian church on Newton Street.
Mr. JENNER. The sermon is preached in English, is it not, at St. Seraphim?
Mrs. LESLIE. In English--Father Dimitri is preaching there. By the way, Father Dimitri christened the daughter of this Oswald. His wife came there to christen the daughter June, I heard.
Now, I was introduced to a few Russian people here.
Mrs. LESLIE. Yes; my daughter, she was here, and she is a ballerina and she was visiting Dallas a few times and she knew some people here. She is a ballerina--a dancer. She met here many people--mostly connected with ballet, artists, so she introduced me to the Voshinins, that's Igor and Natalia Voshinin, and then she introduced me to Mr. and Mrs. Ford.
Mrs. LESLIE. Declan Ford and then to the Mellers.
Mr. JENNER. The Mellers, M-e-l-l-e-r [spelling]?
Mrs. LESLIE. Yes; and then George Bouhe, and I think there are some Russians in Fort Worth--those Fort Worth Russians--the Clarks.
Mr. JENNER. Max Clark--Mr. and Mrs. Max Clark?
Mrs. LESLIE. Those are all the Russians which I knew here.
Now, I don't remember which year it was, it seemed to me it was in 1961, when George Bouhe called me on telephone and told me there was one couple, a young couple came from Soviet Union and if I am interested to hear something about there, you know, the conditions in Soviet Union, he invites me to his house to meet them. He invited them and a few Russian people all interested in the conditions in the Soviet Union, which I left in 1924, and never corresponded with my own mother since that, and my own sisters. I don't know what happened to them, but I lost completely all trace of my own blood family. I never wrote them, because I was advised not to contact them, so I went to this George Bouhe's apartment.
