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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.

Esther Selleck in the Emanu-El 
Residence Club in 1954. (Courtesy)
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For decades, young Jewish women learned to live independently at Emanu-El Residence Club in S.F.

by Denise Selleck July 17, 2024July 24, 2024

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 […]

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