Themes:
Education - Ravenswood City School District
Crime - Drugs
People of EPA
Religious Organizations
Notable Visitors
Subjects:
Jimmy Rutherford, Louise Rutherford, Anau Hafoka Pruitt, King of Tonga, Marty Hargrove
Date of Creation or Publication:
4/8/2024
Creator
Meda Okelo
Donor
Anau Hafoka Pruitt
Language
English
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Interview of Anau Hafoka Pruitt by Meda Okelo. Topics include: migrating from Tonga via Sunnyvale to EPA 1983 when she was 8 years old; life in the 1980s; increasing crime; Brentwood school compared to Sunnyvale; notable people; reaction of name change of Brentwood to Ronald McNair; memories of 6th grade; awkward transition to Ravenswood Middle School; notable teachers; demographics at the Middle School; community life in the 1990s and 2000s; crime in the neighborhood; experience at Menlo-Atherton High School; getting her GED at Redwood High; career as medical assistant; marriage and her personal life; living through the murder capital year and subsequent crime prevention with her church; how growing up in EPA changed her; vision for EPA; and King of Tonga visiting and her first trip to Tonga.
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