Gonzales, Sylvia L.; Vara Valles, Celia (friend/friend). Discovery Green Park, 2009-11-24T12:30:00

File — Interview-ID: MBY005995

Interview Description

Sylvia Gonzales (65) is interviewed by her friend, Celia Vara Valles (49) about her career in law enforcement, her adoptive son Michael and her grandchildren whom she has raised.

Facilitator Subject Log

3:46 Sylvia's role model was her mother; she taught her and her siblings everything they needed to know before kindergarten; Olga Solis got Sylvia a scholarship for college; Sylvia's parents' names

7:50 childhood was happy; family and extended family; father was strict from Mexico; brothers were like guards

16:06 father worked for the railroad; stable household; principles she has tried to instill in her grandchildren; father's influence

26:00 being a woman in law enforcement; becoming captain; macho men and co-workers; sexual harassment by a co-worker

31:09 taking care of her mother; all the kids would sing songs to her mother; the day her mother died