by Chip Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle
23 April 2010
I'D LIKE to suggest that a dictionary publisher
consider placing a photo
of San Leandro resident Hazel Soares in its next updated
edition, right next to
the definition of the word “perseverance”.
She's earned it.
She's earned it.
Soares, now 94, has been married
twice, raised six
kids, seen two economic depressions, 15 U.S. presidents and two
world wars.
She's been a working single mother, a nurse, a concert event organizer and an art lover. She has more than 40 grand-children.
And next month, at the 2010 commencement ceremonies for Mills College, Soares will become a college graduate, 78 years after her high school graduation from the Roosevelt High School in East Oakland.
In 1982, she was one of five classmates who showed up for a 50-year reunion.
She's been a working single mother, a nurse, a concert event organizer and an art lover. She has more than 40 grand-children.
And next month, at the 2010 commencement ceremonies for Mills College, Soares will become a college graduate, 78 years after her high school graduation from the Roosevelt High School in East Oakland.
In 1982, she was one of five classmates who showed up for a 50-year reunion.
