WHO AM I.........And the game continues.

[wildrider]

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mmm a pic and lots of money isnt much to go on

 

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[wildrider]

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Jessica Bibliowitz

 

[nhbenz]

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mmm a pic and lots of money isnt much to go on

Hey you didn't give us much on that last one But I mean LOTS of money!

 

[wildrider]

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so is Jessica right?

 

[nhbenz]

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so is Jessica right?

No not Jessica, we need a gal worth a whole lot more.

 

[wildrider]

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I wouldn't call $125 million small potatoes....
Sanford I. Weill, chairman and CEO of Citigroup, never thought his daughter, Jessica, now Jessica Bibliowitz, would go into business. "He didn't put a lot of pressure on me, says Jessica. "I had an older brother and I was the girl. It was different then, 30 years ago. I guess his expectations were that I'd go out and be self-sufficient one way or the other and that I wouldn't stay on his payroll." Jessica, now 40 with a husband and two children, ages 8 and 10, is president and CEO of National Financial Partners, a New York City-based independent financial services distribution system. She signed on as CEO when the company was formed with $125 million from Apollo Management LP, a leveraged buyout firm. "She liked working and she always talked about wanting to have a career," Weill says. "I didn't know she'd end up in the financial services business, but I feel good that she did. Obviously we must have had some good conversations around the dinner table."

 

[wildrider]

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Maybe someone else knows.
I don't know where everyone has been today. Weekends had been a good time to play.
Good nite.

 

[borninok]

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Abigail Johnson...net worth...13 billion

"With family, controls Fidelity Investments, America's largest mutual fund company. Assets under management: $1.3 trillion. Father, Edward III (see), joined company as an analyst in 1957. "Abby" studied art history in college, then Harvard M.B.A. Joined business 1988, tracked industrial equipment stocks. Ran first diversified fund 1993, became president of company's mutual fund division 2001. Last May took over Employer Services division; administers payroll, employee stock plans. Father reduced ownership in 1995; family still Fidelity's largest shareholder. "


--Mel

borninok

 

[nhbenz]

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Yes indeed!!! borninok it's your turn.

 

[borninok]

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Boy, that was a tough one. Whew.


Ok...WHO AM I?

Clue: I am gone now, but what I pioneered was the start of many careers and is used today.

 

[borninok]

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BTW...clue #2 is located in her picture.
--Mel

borninok

 

[wildrider]

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Mildred McAfee

 

[wildrider]

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Grace Murray Hopper

I was thinking WAVE all the way (my mom was one).
But I also found out she was a pioneer programmer.

 

[borninok]

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Yep, you're right. Actually, Admiral Grace Hopper. I got to meet her, and I will never forget how spunky she was even in her late 80's. I stood in amazement as she explained "nano" vs "nanosecond"...with pieces of wiring.

Here is a little about her:
"She was one of the first software engineers and, indeed, one of the most incisive strategic "futurists" in the world of computing.

Perhaps her best-known contribution to computing was the invention of the compiler, the intermediate program that translates English language instructions into the language of the target computer. She did this, she said, because she was lazy and hoped that "the programmer may return to being a mathematician." Her work embodied or foreshadowed enormous numbers of developments that are now the bones of digital computing: subroutines, formula translation, relative addressing, the linking loader, code optimization, and even symbolic manipulation of the kind embodied in Mathematica and Maple.

Throughout her life, it was her service to her country of which she was most proud. Appropriately, Admiral Hopper was buried with full Naval honors at Arlington National Cemetery on January 7, 1992."

Looks like you are up. BTW the second clue was her nametag.
---Mel

borninok

P.S. Is someone updating the wins or do we have to? I have to get to bed. Would you mind doing it for me? Appreciate it.

 

[wildrider]

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Who am I.
Other than an old timer.

Well dang it...you probably remember me as being a bit older too.

NOW it's bed time. I'll IM Imafish with the answer.

 

[River Rat]

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Looks like Grandpa McCoy...Walter Brennan.

 

[rwsnc]

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Yep, you're right. Actually, Admiral Grace Hopper. I got to meet her, and I will never forget how spunky she was even in her late 80's. I stood in amazement as she explained "nano" vs "nanosecond"...with pieces of wiring.

Here is a little about her:
"She was one of the first software engineers and, indeed, one of the most incisive strategic "futurists" in the world of computing.

Perhaps her best-known contribution to computing was the invention of the compiler, the intermediate program that translates English language instructions into the language of the target computer. She did this, she said, because she was lazy and hoped that "the programmer may return to being a mathematician." Her work embodied or foreshadowed enormous numbers of developments that are now the bones of digital computing: subroutines, formula translation, relative addressing, the linking loader, code optimization, and even symbolic manipulation of the kind embodied in Mathematica and Maple.

Throughout her life, it was her service to her country of which she was most proud. Appropriately, Admiral Hopper was buried with full Naval honors at Arlington National Cemetery on January 7, 1992."

Looks like you are up. BTW the second clue was her nametag.
---Mel

borninok

P.S. Is someone updating the wins or do we have to? I have to get to bed. Would you mind doing it for me? Appreciate it.

Sorry I missed out on this one. I saw her too and remember when she came to IBM (one of her several visits) with here little pieces of wire. As I recall they were about 8" long and represented how far electricity traveled in a nanosecond.

She was feisty ole gal. Pretty intelligent too. Remind you of anyone we know, especially the feisty part?...

 

[wildrider]

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Looks like Grandpa McCoy...Walter Brennan.

Yep you are correct, Walter Brennan. He was actually a singer too. Why don't they bring this stuff back onto tv?
You're it(up)!

 

[River Rat]

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I loved that show, TV shows are not like it used to be.

 

[River Rat]

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Who am I? Couldn't find a older pic, a current pic will tell you right away who he is.

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