James Griffin:  

CLASS OF 1957
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Allentown, PA

James's Story

Life Everyone knows me as "Jerry", not "James." Catholic schools in Bethlehem and Allentown, Pa., graduated from Yale 1962. Married to Gretchen Holverstott during senior year. Got MBA from Wharton (Philadelphia) in 1964 and headed for Wall Street. Three children (Nicholas, Rachel and Catherine) born and raised in Brooklyn. In 1972, got mono and hepatitis and had huge change of interior life, getting involved in meditation and yoga, becoming vegetarian, and so on. Took new job as CFO and chief operating officer of publicly-traded company in Manhattan. Had a good ten-year run until industry conditions destroyed the company in 1983. Separated from Gretchen in 1974; raised the kids in an amicable co-parenting arrangement in Brooklyn. Married Judith Thomas in 1981. Consulted for several years, got involved in computers and on-line business; moved to Granville, Ohio (near Columbus) in 1985 so Judith could teach sociology at Denison University. I spent six fascinating yea...Expand for more
rs doing corporate liquidations; quit in 1992, began consulting again. Judith quit Denison in 1990, became a professional mediator and psychological counsellor and has made quite a successful practice. I started an on-line business in 1994, too early for the Internet, undercapitalized, and perhaps I lacked the mental and emotional flexibility and persistence to succeed; shut it down in 1997 and went back to consulting. Now building a corporate financial consulting practice under the name CFO On Call. Since the financial devastation of the failed on-line business, I am viewing myself as needing to work for another twenty years, so am actively building the business, strengthening myself through weight-lifting and aerobics, and feeling optimistic about the future. My health and energy level are great, thank goodness! Lots, lots more to say about interior life, eccentricities, the wonders of renewed relationships with my children, the mystery of growth in marriage, and so on.
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