December 2023 Email Newsletter
DECEMBER 2023 EMAIL NEWSLETTER
In This Newsletter…
We want to wish you a Merry Holiday Season 🎄 and a Happy New Year 🎊 as we begin to bring 2023 to a close! In that spirit we wanted to share a few segments from the ‘Walks of Life: Exploring Our Cultural Roots - A Collection of Seniors’ Writings’ book that was published in 1991 as a part of the TODCO Arts Initiative.
All credit goes to those listed below.
Editors: Nancy Deutsch, Gina Margillo, Deborah Sue
Production & Graphics: Deborah Sue
Word Processing: Nancy Deutsch, Gina Margillo, Ben Petrasanta, Deborah Sue
Oral History Interviewers: Nancy Deutsch, Gina Margillo
Written Translations (Poetry & Oral History): Engelina Nemirovsky, Ben Petrasanta, Raya Veksler, Wen Jian Zhuo
Oral Translations: Lee, Engelina Nemirovsky, Marina Ng, Rashel Podkaminer
Proofreading Assistance: Jane Kinzler
Portraits Photographer: Ari Fainchtein
Photographers (Color Slides of Paintings): Christine Harrison, Deborah Sue
Artists
“MY ROOTS ARE MY INHERITANCE”
Temple - Bert Louie
“MY ROOTS ARE NOURISHED WITH TEARS & LAUGHTER”
Nasturtium Bed - Leora Blaine
“MY ROOTS ARE WAR & PEACE”
Baghdad is Burning - Alkmene Bander
“MY ROOTS BIND ME TO ALL OTHERS, WE ARE ONE”
Mother & Child - Lucy Watson
Cover Paintings by Lucy Watson, Philip Kaiser, Richard Armstrong, Jose Alfonso Granados, Ellen Gallagher, Alkeme Bander, Rui Huang, Clara Borja, & Molly
Over the next year we will be sharing more from this book through our email newsletter, website, and social media channels so make sure to subscribe to our newsletter, check our website, and follow us on social media to stay in the know. We are excited to share the stories from this amazing book!
WALKS OF LIFE
Exploring Our Cultural Roots
Stories and quotes from past TODCO residents during 1991. 📝
“I’m quite happy being alone, married life would have tied me down. As long as I have a job, I enjoy everything. It is heaven here.” - King Chun Lau (Mendelsohn House)
“I grew up right around here - 242 Clementina…Next to our house was a foundry. Brass…I saw the Moscone Center going up. They tore everything up. All the hotels, factories.” - Alex Duarte (Ceatrice Polite Apartments)
“There is a Russian song which tells our story. It says, ‘My mother sent me to the gardens to get grapes. Instead of getting grapes, I met my love.” - Ida and Izik Flek (Mendelsohn House)
🎄The Holidays At TODCO 🎁
We are having a fun filled holiday season here at TODCO with events such us our annual staff holiday lunch, holiday light tours for our residents, holiday decorations, resident holiday celebrations and much more! Talk about a great way to close out the year and enjoy the holiday season.
Who’s ready to welcome the new year?! #2024 🥳
“When people ask me who is TODCO? The answer is this is TODCO! You are…WE are…together!” - John Elberling
TODCO In The News! 🗞️
Celebrity chef delivers food to seniors during APEC. Watch the full story by clicking the video linked above!
Throwback to when our very own TODCO Group President John Elberling received the 2016 Yerba Buena Alliance Lifetime Achievement Award.
