Murray (’35) and Adele
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My husband Murray and I both earned accounting degrees from Baruch in the mid-1930s, but we didn’t meet until years later when we stood just a few feet apart at our friends’ wedding—he as best man, I as maid of honor.

Dressed in our wedding finery on that Christmas Eve of 1938, it must have been love at first sight for us, because after that we never saw anyone else. I even canceled my date for New Year’s Eve 1939 to go out with Murray. Our mutual friends, the bride and groom, had been trying for some time to set us up on a blind date, but I wasn’t interested. Murray and I had never run into each other at Baruch because I attended during the day, while he went at night.

From New Year’s Eve on, it was a quick romance: we were engaged by April and married in August of 1939. Afterward, Murray became a CPA, and we worked together as accountants at our own Manhattan firm and moved from the Bronx to Westchester, where we raised our two boys. We now have five grandchildren.

Our son Roy followed in our footsteps and graduated from Baruch in 1965, with a degree in economics, and is now an economist at his own firm, Micronomics, in California.