Elizabeth Santeramo:  

Ah, girls, everything is fine, Thank God! No Complaints! As you can see, I'm still very active with alumni work. I do this with CHS as well as with NYU. I love volunteer work - it keeps me going. The important thing is to be connected and together..this internet thing is zee best thing ever, righhhttt? Well, after HS, I went to NYU, majored in Politics and minored in Philosophy. I was pre=law, but Thank God, I didnt' go to law school after graduation. I got a job working for Mayor DInkins as a writer and researcher, and then stayed on for part of Giuliani's term, but they cleaned house and I went back to school to get a master's in public admin and mgt. Got another job and went to school part time. Since then, I've changed jobs every couple of years, and a few years back, I realized that writing and working with young people is my passion and path. I still have to pay bills, so I work in corporate america, thinking with each new job, that maybe "this is it," but it isn't! On 9/11, I happened to be working on Wall and Water Sts. and I thought that was it for me. I couldn't believe it, and even tho what I went thru isn't much compared to what others went thru, it was enough for me becasue I thought I was going to die that day. I told God, "No, I'm too young. I still have so much to do." Glad He heard me! I ended up on a commuter boat and landed in Jersey. As I got off the boat, I watched the remaining tower collapse. I learned a year later, that Yvonne Bonomo, from our Class, worked in that building. She was engaged. We lost our Yvonne. Throughout that year, I had a hard time working and commuting to NY. I changed my hours to avoid rush hour, I stopped socializing, I didn't even attend important events in my friend's lives. I am lucky it took me a few months to get back to myself. I still read about people who are on meds, in therarpy, still trying to get over what happened. ...Expand for more