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Renoda Hoffman: chronicler of White Plains.(In Memoriam)(Brief Article)
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Westchester County Business Journal
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January 31, 2005
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"The reward for reviewing our past is the ability to measure our capacity to meet the demands of the future," wrote White Plains historian Renoda Hoffman in her book "The Changing Face of White Plains." Hoffman was born in Peekskill in 1909, but she arrived in White Plains with her family when she was only six months old and stayed ever since. The era in which she came of age, as well as her family's modest income, required her to put herself through secretarial school. For many decades, she was an eyewitness to daily history as both a parent and a Secretary in the Purchase School system. These experiences, and an abiding fascination with the Revolutionary, War, led her to ...
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