How Neighborhood House helped to nurture an indomitable spirit
By Maria E. Garcia
Obdulia “Tulie” Trejo is the 91 year old sister of Armida Piña, one of the women who shared her Neighborhood House stories in the article “The Lives of Girls”. Tulie says that she raised her younger sister Armida. She invited me to her home in Chula Vista to show me her many baking trophies and to talk about her own memories of Neighborhood House.
Neighborhood House was a place where Tulie, a bright young girl in the 1930s, could learn and excel. [Read more…]