Wednesday, May 05, 2010

For Hilda Solis, a Chance Encounter with Former Teacher Changed Everything (EXCLUSIVE)

This is a very interesting history of our Secretary of Labor and how close she came to skipping college and being content in a receptionist job. A former teacher helped her see that she had more important things to do. - - Donna Poisl

Rob Kuznia -- HispanicBusiness.com

When Hilda Solis was a senior in high school, just a few weeks away from graduation, she wasn't thinking about college.

Instead, the daughter of immigrant parents who met in citizenship class wanted to be a receptionist, or -- if she was really lucky -- a county clerk, like her older sister.

But one day, a chance encounter changed everything. Walking through the halls at La Puente High School in her native Los Angeles County, the teenage Solis bumped into her former seventh-grade history teacher.
Click on the headline to read the rest of this story! This is only a small part of it.

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