T-Shirt
- Description
- Blue T-shirt belonging to Waleska Martinez. The shirt commemorates a 1986 SUNY Oswego Summer English intensive program. The front includes an illustration of a monkey wearing a baseball cap and T-shirt and holding a book and paper. On the back of the shirt are the names of the program participants, including Martinez.
- Historical Notes
- Waleska Martinez was born in Santurce, Puerto Rico. After earning her bachelor’s degree in business administration in 1986, she moved to New York for an intensive English course, later settling in New Jersey. She joined the U.S. Census Bureau and rose to become a supervisor. On September 11, she and a coworker, Marion Britton, boarded Flight 93 for a seminar in San Francisco. Waleska was 37 years old.
Curator's Comment
Born in Santurce, Puerto Rico, Waleska Martinez received her bachelor’s degree in computer science and business administration from the University of Puerto Rico in 1986. This t-shirt is a keepsake from the Intensive English Program at State University of New York, Oswego, which she attended the summer after graduation. The automation supervisor for the U.S. Census Bureau’s New York office, Waleska was headed to a conference when she boarded Flight 93. Though she lived far from Puerto Rico, her father considered her “the backbone of the family.”
- Accession Number: C.2015.24.4
- Dimensions: 25.5 in X 29.25 in
- Dimensions (Metric): 64.77 cm X 74.295 cm
- Source: Lourdes LeBron
- Credit Line: Gift of Lourdes LeBron, Waleska Martinez's sister, and on behalf of Waleska's family members, in her memory
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