A handsome, four-story brick building at Page and Laguna streets that has been home to the San Francisco Zen Center for more than five decades actually began its life in 1923 as a communal living space for young Jewish women, complete with Stars of David in the ironwork. The Emanu-El Residence Club — previously called […]
Denise Selleck
Denise Selleck recently retired after 32 years as an ESL instructor at City College of San Francisco. Proud to be a third-generation Jewish San Franciscan, she is researching her family. While she has yet to find anyone famous in her line, she has a great-grand-uncle named Lesser Lesser, and her grandmother is buried quite close to Wyatt Earp at Hills of Eternity Cemetery.