Goldie Corash Michaelson Quotes
It never occurred to me that I would live this long. I just went on and on, and I’ve loved it
She was the oldest person in America adn one of the oldest in the world.
Goldie Corash Michaelson Interview, Clark University Magazine, 2013
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On July 8, 2015 she died in Worcester, Massachusetts. At 113, She was the oldest living American and one of the oldest people in the world. She was born in 1902 in Czarist Russia, and immigrated to the United States with her parents when she was only 4. Her father set up Michelson was one of the few women to receive a college education in the 1920s. She earned her undergraduate degree in sociology in 1924 from Pembroke College, the women’s affiliate of Brown University. She went on to take an advanced degree, a real rarity at the time. She graduated with her Master’s Degree from Clark University in 1936. She worked as a social worker, and became very active inJewish Education. She was mentally alert and lucid even in the years before she did at the age of 113