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Kathleen
Scofield ("Katie") was born on December 28, 1903, in New York City. Her father, Leonard B. Schoenfeld, was a stockbroker; both parents were of German and Austrian Jewish ancestry. Her father changed their surname to "Scofield" to sound less German during World War I.
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Rosemary Hall boarding school in Greenwich, Connecticut, where she was one of three Jewish girls in her class. In 1926, she started studies at Columbia University but had to stop in 1927 and went instead to secretarial school for financial reasons.
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