User:Robbie
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My personal profile for the Tech committee
I was born in 1939 in Manhattan, where my parents lived and worked, unusual types -- Depression YUPPIES, father on Wall Street in investent banking and mother on 7th Avenue, designing Junior Miss dresses. In 1942, they decided to try the commuting life, 6:45am to 7:30pm, 5, sometimes 6 days a week. That left me, an only child, to develop a taste for independent living, overseen by a maid and a caretaker, both none-too-attentive, to explore the secrets of our 65 bucolic acres, much expanded by the watershed of a shallow stream which reassuringly always flowed in a direction pointing away from my backyard.
In 1945, I was introduced to formal education at the Buckingham Friends School.[1] After 2 years, results were sufficiently disasterous to convinve my parents, along perhaps with other, unstated reasons, to get us a NYC apartment and find me a better school, the Buckley School for Boys [still!].[2]