Tachna, Ruth Candace 2
- Born: Feb 24, 1914, New York, New York, United States 2
- Marriage (1): Bauman, Paul in Jun 1938 in New York, United States 2
- Died: Nov 14, 2014, Sarasota, Florida, United States at age 100
General Notes:
1.) 1934 graduate from Cornell University with a Bachelor of Arts Degree. 1937 earned a Bachelor of Laws cum laude from Brooklyn Law School, where she served on the staff of the Law Review and Justinian.
2.) Taught law in university in California.
A 1937 graduate of Columbia Law School, Ruth Tachna was the founding attorney for Legal Aid of Westchester, New York, from 1960 to 1964. That year, she became the senior partner of Tachna & Krassner in White Plains. In 1977, Ms. Tachna taught at N orthrop University School of Law in Los Angeles, where she started a law review focusing on aerospace, energy, and environmental issues. She retired from the practice of law in 1985 and teaches courses in writing memoirs in southern Florida.
" I got paid on my first job five dollars a week. I was paid on Friday and the boss borrowed it back on Monday because it was the height of the Depression in those days. Nobody had any money. Nobody in that venue.... My husband was getting a highe r rate of pay than anybody else in the class. He was getting fifteen dollars a week. We were rich; we had twenty dollars a week between us."
Noted events in her life were:
• Death in week: Friday.
• Jewish Birth Date. 2 28 Shevat 5674
• Birth in Week. 2 Tuesday
• Yahrtzeit: 21 Heshvan 5775.
Ruth married Paul Bauman, son of M. Bauman and Lena Sass, in Jun 1938 in New York, United States.2 (Paul Bauman was born on May 27, 1915 in Brooklyn, New York, United States 2 and died in Jun 1968 in New York, New York, United States 2.)
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