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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...social worker-cum-entrepreneur and his Berkeley graduate son. His face animated, Sid says he feels "caught between what I want in life and what I need, and what I want to do for others. I'd like to be involved in a social cause, I'd like to make sure that the needs of the elderly get taken care of. I'd like to work to change the system, but I'd be knowing all the while that it's virtually impossible to change...
ANOTHER DUDLEY BUS trundles past, probably late and probably packed, but to make good use of your two bits you take it to the end of the line. Few Harvard students ever will, since the Dudley stops smacks in the middle of Roxbury, but if they did they would find the Silver Slipper Restaurant, "Home of Limbo Patties, Curry Goat and Empanadas," and the nest egg of Leonard and Daphne Matthews. Their tiny eatery is hard to find--with the tracks from the Orange Line blocking much of the light over the sign, and the heavy window grating taking care...
...Since I was 11 years old I worked in restaurants and hotels," he says, "first in Jamaica and then here. I start in an American restaurant as a boilerman, and I watch and I learn until I make it to assistant chef, I don't know anything else...
...knew he could never make the kind of living he wanted for himself and Daphne working for someone else, "and we wanted to be our own boss," he says, so they borrowed enough to match their savings, bought their store, and taught themselves to keep the accounts. Leonard does all the purchasing and cooking, and Daphne provides the counter service and does the books, and says Leonard, "We do everything together. I make a decision and ask her and if she has a better decision I say okay, we do it. She's a whiz...
Isham says he will always make time to work in social organizations and may use his experience as an Anthropology concentrator to work in a foreign aid service