Impressive Woman in My Life
Can you imagine... you are female growing up in Anderson, SC and you dream of going to college. You are lucky, and you have supportive parents who believe an education is a good thing. You are the oldest of 8 children... parents immigrated from Russia and moved to Anderson, SC with your parents looking for a better life and freedom. You reach out to go to Converse College, in Spartanburg and get a college degree. Imagine, your ambition not satiated, you decide to leave and go further from home and go to New York and Columbia University and get a second degree a Bachelor of Science. You stay in New York to work, before choosing to get married and return to your hometown. Let's add a few twists to this, you are female, Jewish, parents immigrated from Russia, and oh by the way it is not today you achieve your second degree it is 1929. This is more amazing because I knew her, she was my grandmother, and I have her diploma from Columbia University. I sit here wi