My VITA

I was born in Oakland, California in 1949 the daughter of two physicians, my parents had adjacent cadavers in medical school. My father was a general surgeon, my mother worked for companies like Pfizer, DuPont and Sperry Gyroscope during World War II.

We lived in Berkley, California until 1955 when we moved to Lloyd Harbor, NY, a tony village north of Huntington with two acre zoning to be close to my father’s parents. My father’s great uncle had a seat on the NYSE and was on the Board of Governors of NYSE in the 1920’s.

My mother’s mother worked for a senior partner of Sullivan & Cromwell for 36 years, the firm of Allen Dulles and John Foster Dulles.

My brother and I attended Huntington public schools until he was sent to boarding school at the Hill School and I to Concord Academy in 1965. He went on to Stamford and I to University of Rochester.

I married, moved to Tallahassee where I completed an MBA in Finance at FSU and divorced. I was hired out of school by a regional bank holding company to join their first McKinsey Client team. I spent twenty years with them consulting internally on technology, communications and organizational problems.

I have never been arrested, asked my parents for money or done evil deeds. I have no dark spots on my record, there are no secrets I must hide. I have been to Jerusalem several times. When I left the bank friends thought I’d eventually become an Episcopal priest.

I have lived a kind, caring, charitable compassionate life. There is little to fault and nothing to hide. I am the sort of daughter most parents would be very proud of.

If this happened to me, how can your children and grandchildren be safe in the future?