When I read it to the class, some of the students were so moved they began to cry. I wrote an essay about a character named Jackson the Jester (who made people happy, but wore an iron collar around his neck). “We had been asked to write a composition. “But believe me, there’s plenty of head lice in both public and private schools.”Īt the Mayflower Grammar School in New Rochelle, when she was nine years old, something happened that convinced her she should study to become a writer. Soon thereafter we moved to New Rochelle, which had excellent public schools.” So that was the end of New York City public school. “But then, one day when I was seven, I came home with head lice. “I went to Public School 93 on Central Park West at 92nd,” Barbara said. He was also, along with David Rockefeller, able to donate a considerable amount of land he owned on the East Side of Manhattan to make it possible for the United Nations to have its headquarters in New York. Among other properties, he owned more than 50% of Pepsi Cola and was its chairman. By the time Barbara and her sister were born, he was extremely affluent.
Then, when the law changed so that he could not give tax advice, he went back to night school and became a lawyer.
He got a degree in accounting and opened an accounting firm. Her father, the youngest, while working during the day, spent 13 years studying at night to gain an education. Her father’s father emigrated from the Russian-Polish border at the turn of the 20th century to the Lower East, where he sold goods from a pushcart and, according to her father, moved from apartment to apartment with his family of eight kids whenever the rent came due. Barbara has had a wonderful, exciting life, and I was pleased to have lunch with her recently, where we got into a long discussion about it.
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