As she graduated from high school in 1967, Ileana Freeman didn’t think that she would work too long at the Teachers’ Retirement System, let alone retire as its longest-serving employee more than 47 years later.
The job offer came when she graduated William Howard Taft High School in The Bronx, where she was enrolled in a co-op program at the Department of Licenses (now the Department of Consumer Affairs). When she picked up her last paycheck, her boss handed her a piece of paper with a name and address.
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