What we're doing here today?

My name is Ria.

I'm visiting my daughter's in California, San Diego, celebrating my 1/100 birthday.

Now the question mostly after me.

What did you see in the 100 years that impressed you.

And I said, most important thing that impressed be as a woman is the rightful women to vote United States.

That was a new thing for me.

My post vote was in 1928.

I was 21 years old.

At that time, my father took me into the voting booth, which is in the barber shop.

The back of a barbershop section's over the area with a curtain.

And, of course, my father was a member centers in the labor movement.

He escaped from Russia for freedom.

And so we voted for the Socialist Party that I was Norman Thomas, a wonderful human being.

But unfortunately, we lost out to Herbert Hoover on Hoover.

Was did I repeat the disastrous Terry it in our lives?

He But I vote again for her.

Petrova got helping out again from Golden, tells us the next election.

But thank at this time it was Roosevelt and he'll save our country.

I became a teacher in the public school system, went on from teacher to assistant teacher to community relations person.

I worked with the black community in Harlem and the Bronx community in the Bronx and had a very happy relationship with the parents that they gave me a number of plaques.

I was able to get these young black women who are saying hell with the kids.

Go back to college at Fordham University's.

Open the door to them and they got their degrees and they became either clerks or teachers, and they gave me a big plant.

Little the things I've done for them.

I would get the banks to give bonds to kids who improved in reading.

No one had added considered.

It's the reading, so was so important to encourage them.

And these kids walk out $25.

Cooper and I was important things than they recognize, and there was more of that of the parents Association then began to take control of the school system.

I will run what time?

What?

You're oh God.

At that time, there was a struggle between the parents associations and the school, says the teachers, the teachers did not want to relinquish any of their rights, and the parents want to have more rights.

So I suggested a way out.

I said, Why don't you have a committee of three?

The principal who's responsible for the entire school system?

The teachers are responsible for the learning, and the parents were concerned about both.

Have a committee of three or three people believed Committee of nine really three of each and with the personal effects would explain what program was for the year.

The things he wanted the Children to achieve.

The teachers have speak up.

It's the house impossible without help from the parents.

And the parents spoke up.

But unfortunately all three were antagonistic to each other and nobody wants give up everything.

The teachers would say that they're not educate.

You're gonna tell me how to run?

Teach my Children.

And the principal said, Who were these teachers?

Anything.

Then tell me how to run my school and the pit the pairs of something out of one of my school.

So that thing just fell apart.

Probably is a lie.

So I heard that the cut development was trying to figure the same thing.

How to get the schools, the community, the teachers and parents to get together.

Nothing happened again.

They were three.

Nobody was afraid to give up anything at all.

Oh, well, I got married.

I let my husband's a very unusual way.

This is my first year of teaching.

First a couple of years in 1935 the time that rose will that opened the door to the Soviet Union.

It's all the progressive people.

Teachers mean once you what's going on in Russia.

People who had family there on friends.

Uh, and all political mind people in the world is going on here at that time.

You have to make your own arrangements there.

No tours, arrangements.

So I went as a single person took this trip.

The ship from New York to England and England, it officially out of Russia.

There's a wave more than a month.

Yeah, it's the entire system.

I went toe to Russia because my neighbor said to me her elder repairs had gone to Palestine to spend their declining years, and when I drop in on them like England is around the corner from from Palestine, we'd know the capital that considerate.

I said, Sure, I'll drop drop in on them But I went to Russia first.

There was my mother still have family living there.

I wonder what's going on in America.

This is lying in the 1919 thirties and they were thrilled with American, and some of them were filled with Russia.

Because Russia has now become communist country.

There were three.

My God, What if my aunts had a son?

Husband had a very important company, coal and lumber.

Very well comes the revolution.

They took it away and they allowed.

His oldest son would've owned the company.

It's a work of England.

He was paid as a manager, and he hated the revolution.

His younger brother went to different sea, became an engineer.

He would never been allowed to go to the engineering school.

So for one that was good, together was not so good when I was missing in Odessa.

That's when I got the letter from my friend to visit her, a family in Palestine, across the street, standing on a little boat through the Black Sea into the Mediterranean, and I saw a young man told Himto woman on on the duck.

He was looking at me, talking to her.

I knew he was in America.

He will wipe hands, blows a light blue sweater and had golden blond hair.

And he looked like a well built.

He looks like an American.

Hey turned around.

He saw me standing on the deck.

We just wave to Harden's kisser, hungered by.

I didn't say Dr The said goodbye, then walked up.

The doc said next to me.

I paid no attention to him.

I kept staring at the dog and he kept staring at me.

I didn't Lincoln, I I was very well aware of him.

There's nobody else on the deck.

See, He wasn't making him a steak when he stepped away from the two of six, looked me up and down.

And then he said, Oh, with you, I'm gonna have trouble.

He didn't ask you.

My name was a Russian, Jewish, Greek, whatever, because the coloring was the same.

That that community just with you, I'm going to have trouble.

So I looked at him.

I walked away from him.

Hey, follow me.

That was the same seven day trip through the black simulator training to Palestine.

He saved my side.

That was seven days and seven nights.

And even the people he would do playing Palestine.

And I dropped in to visit the elderly parents with Really?

Now he was lonely bag on the French line on the Ile de France.

So we had to go up to friends.

I was going to back to England.

We went to take a steamer to Trieste from Palestine and then take the train.

We thought all of Europe will of France really from the southern to the northern port.

And he went off to New York and I went up to him with and I wrote to my aunt was very close to me.

I probably will never see the dye, but it gave me a wonderful month.

Let the bulls of fantastic grimacing was a good summer, Romans When I got to New York, there he was on the dock, waiting for the never left my side for 43 years.

Of course.

Oh, well, I'll be a boat going up.

The tree s The captain was a Jewish captain in attendance.

So this was his last trip.

The boat is gone because convergence or a warship Because my cell, Edie was an attentive, declined colonizing Ethiopia.

This is his last trippers.

This is you know I have the right to perform marriages.

Would you like me to marry you?

So I said, I want a big wedding and get out of it.

But we want a big wedding.

And he said he thinks his life would like to have something to say about the wedding too.

So we didn't press it.

And I was glad because if I said no, I'd never see him again.

Find you have Yes, I'm in trouble.

In Paris, he pulled a company and I said, That's it Said he met me on the dock and that was it.

His parents were not very pleased because he came from well to do family.

And I was a very average person.

Take care of a widowed mother, the only one making a living in those days and be this late thirties.

1935.

I'm joining with making a living confirm bling.

It's my brother, had a business and help support that my sister was married to graduate once have a good business.

On came the depression.

He lost it and she had two Children.

So there I was, helping them out.

And I was the only one working.

What else was going to do?

My family.

They were thrilled with my husband because he was charming.

He was gracious.

And he was earning a living speech teacher at City College.

So he had a job and I had a job.

I'm doing very well.

Uh, has stabbed.

We wanted a big one because they're just sitting there before sons there.

They all had big weddings.

Hotel.

What is?

I said, hotel weddings means after buying evening, Ellen.

Now, whether has together address, you'll never wear again.

My brother had succeeded.

We can't afford it.