Biography of Irene Kuhn Irene Kuhn was born in New York City on a snowy, white winter day on January 15, 1900. She was very bright. She quit school at the age of sixteen. She quit to enroll in the Packard Business School. She graduated in seven months. Then she got her first stenographic job at nine dollars a week. As you can see she started out very small but that didn't discourage her. In the mid 1920's she moved to Syracuse and got her first reporting job. The job she got was at The Herald. She earned eightteen dollars a week. Within two months she was given a raise. She then earned twenty-five dollars a week. H