Cecilia Evans Beekman Research Paper

Cecilia Evans Beekman is half Irish and half German. She was born in America and lived in New Jersey her entire life. She got married at an early age and had two kids: a boy and a girl. Cecilia had a lot of different jobs but, her favorite was being a librarian because to her helping people is the most important thing.

I, Cecilia Evans Beekman was born in Montclair, New Jersey in 1958. My mother and father were both born in Philadelphia, West Philadelphia within blocks of one another. My mother's parents were from Ireland, both born in Ireland and came into the port of Philadelphia when they were both around 16, so my mother's parents were Irish and she was a first generation American. For my father's mother, she was Irish but really didn't

For instance there was a real separation that my parents never got involved in school issues, they never called my teachers, they never sent letters and so I think a lot of school was sort of my universe, my parents never got involved in it. You would get on a bike sometimes on the weekends and ride you know twenty blocks over to your friends house and you could spend the day there, unlike now. When I was younger in the summers if it was hot or you didn't wanna come outside and play we would take the rule book “Encyclopedia” and just sit down and read through the world book, and so there was a lot of different subject areas that I was interested in. When I went to college I couldn't pick a major, they had an interdisciplinary major they called American studies so you could study American politics, art theater and music, literature and that appealed to me but I didn't know all through college what I wanted to do for a living. I really did enjoy my adulthood though, I mean I think it was really fun I was living in New York City and I was working, I was gaining confidence you know cause I was behind two sisters who were bossy and