He was twenty-five years of age and did not know the alphabet. He began then as a kindergarten scholar. Soon after he attended the evening classes and made remarkable progress. He attended the classes for four years and then Steve entered his name for entrance examinations in the College of the City of New York. To his own amazement Aaron Drucker passed the examinations, but soon after the Spanish-American War broke out and his boyhood dream of being a soldier revived and once again he offered America his services and this time he was not refused. Upon his discharge from the Army he entered Columbia University and was graduated in 1901. Shortly afterwards he received a summons to return to Russia because of a crisis in his home. While he was there he was seized for military service. His experience in the Spanish-American War made his services valuable but the Russian officers resented his education and independent manner. All manner of insults were heaped upon him. Finally it became unbearable and one day he took his own part and struck back at an officer. He was tried and sentenced to Siberia for life but when the American Ambassador, who also was a graduate of Columbia University, learned of the circumstances he intervened, and made it possible for Drucker to return to America. As soon as he returned to America he went to Chicago and took post-graduate work at the university. He spent one year in social service work in Denver, Colorado, and later took further studies at Columbia University. Then came his appointment as a teacher in the Commercial Department of Colorado College. Soon after he was appointed to the important position of Dean of this Department, which he has held ever since. Although a busy man, with heavy responsibilities, Professor Drucker has for several years devoted nearly all his spare time to helping men, who, like himself, are immigrants in America. He has never forgotten the days when, sick and friendless, and with no knowledge of the English language, he walked the streets of New York looking for a job. Many a new-comer to America has had reason to be thankful that he ever met Professor Drucker. A group of working men in Colorado Springs decided to form a night school. They believed that there could be a class of one hundred if they could only secure some educator who would lead them. When they asked where such a man could be found all agreed that the one man most desired and best fitted, was Doctor Aaron Drucker. He was asked and responded readily, and with the help of some of his colleagues at Colorado College the evening classes began with the result that, in less than one year, over two hundred and fifty students were in attendance. Dr. Drucker has given of his time and strength to this work most unselfishly because he remembers with gratitude the men who gave him assistance when he stood so badly in need of it.