Calling it Quits
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Most people eye 65 to retire, one woman took it all the way to triple digits. I’m Brian Banmiller on Business.
Betty Soskin, the country’s oldest Park Ranger, is retiring at the age of 100. For the past 15 years Betty has worked at the Rosie the Riveter, WWII historical park in the San Francisco Bay Area. She led tours at the park and museum where women who worked in factories during the war are honored. She also shared her own experience as a black woman where in 1942 she quit the Air Force after learning she was only hired because her boss thought she was white. And that isn’t the most compelling part of her resume. In 1945 she and her husband opened one of the first black-owned record stores. In 2015 she received a presidential coin from President Obama. A year later she was beaten and robbed inside her home. The coin was stolen and then replaced. Just weeks after recovering, she was back at work. No word on what’s next but doesn’t seem like retirement will slow her down. Brian Banmiller, CBS News.
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CBS News Radio national business journalist Brian Banmiller has spent more than 40 years in the news industry, covering business, politics and the economy on television, radio and in print. Currently, his “Banmiller on Business” reports are delivered to an audience of millions nationwide.
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