Student Profile

Cassandra (Roper) Dunn was born in 1945 and raised on Sol Legare, by her maternal grandparents.  She also spent a portion of her childhood in New York City with her grandaunt, Rosa Leff.  Around seventh or eighth grade, Cassandra began attending W. Gresham Meggett and studied there through twelfth grade.  When she graduated in 1966, she moved to Washington D.C. for a short period, but returned later that year and began working at the shipyard in Charleston.  Cassandra retired after thirty years of employment at the shipyard. 

 

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