“I always knew my mother wanted to get more education,” Mona Cannon said. Through the help of teachers, she managed to complete high school. Her parents’ small grocery went under during the Depression and Roz found a full-time job in a local bakery, working after school while also caring for a younger brother. Roz was born in 1926, and her mother died when she was 11 years old. in the early 20th Century and settled in Hartford, Connecticut. She was the daughter of Russian Jewish immigrants who escaped the Cossacks and arrived in the U.S. Roz Weisberg Cannon’s was a classic immigrant story. In today’s first-generation students, many struggling to make ends meet, Mona Cannon sees her parents. She began researching California State Universities and was impressed with the number of low-income and first-generation students Stan State is educating. Mona Cannon feels the same way about her gift to Stan State students. My mother asked, ‘What would it take to make all that go away?’ The security guard said $1,000, and my mother took out her checkbook and wrote a check for $1,000. She told my mom all the problems she was having. “There was a female security guard she used to talk to, and one day when she went in, the security guard down was down in the mouth and my mother asked her what was the matter. Joseph's Hospital in Burbank to have tests done,” Mona Cannon said. “One of my favorite stories of my mother is that she would go to St. Roz Cannon, who died in June 2020 at age 94 - 50 years after her husband - left no charitable bequests, but Mona remembers her mother giving to others.
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