Lisa Mickity:
CLASS OF 1986
Murry Bergtraum High SchoolClass of 1986
New york, NY
Baruch College - Zicklin School of BusinessClass of 1990
New york, NY
Corlears Junior High School 56Class of 1983
New york, NY
John L. Bernstein Public School 137Class of 1981
New york, NY
Lisa's Story
I am married to Douglas Mickity, we have two children (Laura 19 & Keith 15), and I am now a stay-home-mom living in Merrick, L.I., NY.
I was born Lisa Diaz (no middle initial) on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. I am a light-skin Puerto Rican with brown curly hair, brown eyes and freckles (which became my school nickname). Life resume below:
Elementary School: P.S. 137 (1974-1981)
* Location: Cherry Street (right across from my apartment building in the LaGuardia Housing)
* Teachers: Ms. DAntino, Mrs. Rosenblum, Miss Drosdofsky, Mrs. Troy, Mr. Altmark and Mrs. Malloy
* Closest Friends: Sophie Poon, Jean Carleto, and Lailany Villamil (best friend)
* Miscellaneous: Interests in Art and also Drama (got leads in several school plays)
Junior High Shool: Corlears J.H.S. 56 (1981-1983)
* Location: Henry Street and Madison Street.
* Teachers: Mr. S. Levine, Mr. Addleston, Mr. Schwartz, Ms. Chekofsky, Mr. Katz, Mr. Kruter, Ms. Lipman, Ms. Baker, Ms. Towbin, Ms. Andricos, Ms. Andrews and Mr. Cohen.
* Closest Friends: Sophie Poon and Jean Carleto
* Miscellaneous: Interest still in Art. In 2-yr SP with Sophie in Ms. Stevens & Mr. Addleston homeroom #9-438.
High School: Murry Bergtraum H.S. for Business Careers (1983-1986)
* Location: Pearl Street (next to Police Plaza)
* Teachers: Ms. Fishman, Ms. Gabel, Ms. Gianacopolis, Ms. Cardona, Ms. Aiges, Mr. Gatti, Mr. Sinclair, Ms. Gerchick, Mr. Klein, Mr. Bader, Mr. Sebba, Ms. Rosenberg, Mr. Sucher, Ms. Boutin, Mr. Negri, and Mr. Ramirez (some I could remember clearly, others I am not sure about and some I must have forgotten)
* Closest Friends: Sophie Poon (Accounting) and Elodia Martinez (Secretarial Studies)
* Miscellaneous: Interest still in Art. Majored in Secretarial Studies and was in Ms. Warshaw homeroom #8612. (THEN PROFILE PICTURE)
Bernard Baruch College C.U.N.Y. (1986-1990)
* Location: 23rd Street & Lexington Ave. (main building with others campus buildings several blocks away)
* Major: Office Technology & Administration (Minor: Art)
* Degree: Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) Cum Laude
* Miscellaneous: August 1989, started dating Douglas Keith Mickity (American/Hungarian/Italian, Flushing/Queens, '87 Hunter High School & '91 Cooper Union) after both of us were assigned by Tiger Temps to summer office job at Milbank Tweed in Downtown Manhattan.
After college, I eventually moved from the Lower East Side to Mid-East Manhattan by the United Nations building to live with my best friend Sophie Poon ('90 Boston University). I w...Expand for more
orked at 7 WTC for Salomon Brothers, Inc. as a Secretary in the Generalist Associate Group and Sophie worked as an accountant for KPMG Peat Marwick.
In 1993, I moved to Woodbridge (Iselin), NJ to live with Doug who worked as a Chemical Engineer for Exxon Mobil, Inc. in Linden, NJ (it is the large refinery that can be seen off the NJ Turnpike). I continued to commute to NY to work as work-flow coordinator at Salomon Brothers, which became Salomon Smith Barney (SSB) and relocated to 388 Greenwich Street.
In August 1995, I married Doug after dating for four years and living together for an additional two years. Sophie was my maid-of-honor and Doug and I honeymooned in Greece with both a land and cruise tour. (NOW PROFILE PICTURE - This way you can see my hubby, the reason for the name change, and anyway there's no way I'm putting a current picture after having two kids :-)
In 1997, we bought our first home in East Brunswick, NJ. Doug continued to work at the Linden Refinery which became Tosco Refining Corp. and I continued working as an Expense Reimbursement Analyst for SSB which became Travelers Citigroup.
In October 1998, I gave birth to our daughter, Laura Amber Mickity. After her birth, I decided to work part-time at Citigroup as a secretarial floater and worked three full-days a week. This was a great balance of child-rearing/family time and work/socialization (thank god, 9/11 was on my day off).
In 2001, we moved to Merrick, Long Island, which is close to Jones Beach, after Doug got a new job with Petro-Chem, a fire-heater company, in mid-Manhattan by Grand Central. We bought a house six blocks away from my mother, who helped with daycare on my work days.
In September 2002, I gave birth to my son, Keith Garrett Mickity. After his birth, we determined that we could afford for me not to work outside the home so I became a stay-at-home mom. In order to remain near family but have more family time and less business travel, Doug makes a long commute to NJ after he went back to work at the Linden Refinery now owned by ConocoPhillips. I still keep-in-touch with Sophie who lives in Upper Manhattan and works as an accountant for a private school.
As of 2017, nothing has changed except everyone is "old" :-) and Laura is now a Sophomore at FIT for Product Design and Keith is a Sophomore at Laura's old high school.
To summarize, I have a 22-year marriage to Douglas Mickity, we have two children (Laura 19 & Keith 15), and I am now a stay-home-mom living in Merrick, Long Island, NY. (updated 12/2017)
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