Patricia Greenbaum:
CLASS OF 1966
Plymouth High School (closed)Class of 1966
Plymouth, MI
Patricia's Story
Patricia is from Plymouth, Michigan. She is married. Her schools include Plymouth High School (closed). She later attended University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (English, History). She works(ed) at Celanese, GE, Conde Nast, CBS Magazine Div., Archdiocese of NY.
Music Patricia likes includes Oldies, Jazz, Country, Classical, Celtic, New Age.
More about Patricia:"Sought adventure and travel, inspired by my Godmother....who taught me the meaning of pure, unselfish love. Industrial sales enabled me to travel extensively and publishing fit my love of literature, cooking, and the arts. Very much enjoyed helping people with their marriage annulments....bringing comfort. The job with the greatest meaning is being a mother to an incredible son.".
In between college semesters I lived with my Aunt/Godmother and worked where she did (Romeo, MI) at a company that manufactured vinyl for the automobile companies. I worked in the plastics lab and learned how to test the chemicals that went into plastics plus color matching the vinyl parts. Because it was an unusual job, when I graduated U of M (liberal arts) I was able to get a job with a large plastics company in New Jersey doing quality control testing on plastics. I wanted to travel and the salesmen who called on me (since my job was to find the best quality plastic chemicals for our products) gave me the idea of going into plastic sales. Women were just beginning to get positions in industrial sales and I was the second woman to get a sales job in plastics with Celanese. I had a territory which extended from upstate New York to Toronto, Canada. Our regional headquarters were in Montreal. After approximately two years of too much snow, I got a position selling plastics with General Electric. I worked for them for 8 years and covered the entire East Coast, being transferred from New Jersey to Atlanta. I loved the job for quite a while but my final territory was so large, I would be on a plane every week and fly to part of my territory and come home on Friday nights. I met my future husband at U of M where he was a law student. He worked as a prosecutor in the Manhattan DA's office but we dated a short time at Michigan. We got ...Expand for more
together 13 years later and married. I then worked for several publishing companies doing research and editing for Conde Nast (Vanity Fair), CBS Magazine Div. (Cuisine Magazine and then Memories Magaine). CBS made a short lived tv spin off based on our magazine. At this point we had our son, John-William. We lived iin NYC for approximately 7 years and then moved to Westchester County. I had mixed feelings about New York. The City was a dangerous place until Rudolf Guliani became Mayor and did an amazing job of cleaning the City and bringing crime down. I loved Manhattan at Christmas and the Symphonies, NYC Ballet, the Museums, the theatre. Before we had our son, we traveled to Europe 4 times. We lived along the Hudson River when we moved out of the city but astronomical taxes and the cost of living made living in NY with a child extremely expensive. When I visited my brothers (one in Howell and one in Farmington Hills), our son really liked the Midwest. He went fishing and shooting with my brothers (something New Yorkers from the City just don't do) and decided he liked the lifestyle, the people and "the wide open spaces" better than NY and decided he would go to a college in the Midwest. He researched his interests and to our surprise chose Indiana univeristy in Bloomington. We live in Bloomington now and we love it! The cost of living is much better and I didn't realize Indiana had the #2 best music school in the country! They are the only college that has performed opera at the Met. I always enjoyed music and there are so many activities here...and for a lot less money. Bloomington is in the south central part of the state and isn't flat but very hilly and a beautiful town. An architectural magazine rated Indiana Univesity as one of the top ten loveliest campuses in the US. I do miss our friends from New york, but I'm happy to be back in the Midwest as is my son and even, surprisingly, my husband. I never thought he would like the Midwest and he was dreading the move, but he's gotten involved in a lot of things and when people ask if he misses NY, he says he misses the NY that no longer exists....the NY from when he was younger and a cleaner, safer city.
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