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Susan Stein Newell

Where to start? Left Westfield State after 1 boring year and turned a summer job at the telephone company into a 15 year career finally taking a management buyout offer in 1985 to focus on entrepreneurial adventures. Married Craig in 1975 - just celebrated 33 years together - lived at Stanford while he got his MBA then back to Wayland MA for about 15 years. Owned and operated a small retail biz until the weak NE economy of the early 90's gave us the 'opportunity' to be bought out by a big competitor and move to FL where we discovered after about 2 years that with 5 kids in the house, we really should be back north to get them a real education. Settled here in lovely Moorestown, NJ (about 12 mi. outside of Philly) - a town that reminded us very much of Sharon with the HS championship banners hung in the gym and parades down main street for the holidays etc. Love the longer springs and falls - don't have to shovel much snow!

Started an income tax business here in NJ in 1998 which has now grown to 7 locations in the greater Trenton area and another 22 locations in middle GA. We employ about 200 people and serve about 10,000 clients and hope (and pray!) that the government doesn't screw up this industry too much before I get to sell the biz and retire in a few years!

Very proud of my kids. Kim lives in Natick with her husband and 2 sons. Becky is currently attending pharmacy school at Univ of MD in Baltimore and really does threaten to finally say yes to the man whose been asking her to marry him for the last 10 years, before her biological clock explodes. Jess, a Rutgers grad, recently started a new career with NW Mutual selling insurance and is planning to expand into financial planning in Philly. My son Will is about 6' 3" (wonder who the mother was?) and is a sophomore at UConn. Liz is a freshman at UMD in College Park, working towards becoming an orthodontist someday (payback for the 6 sets of beautiful smiles we invested in - our orthodontist added a new wing to his building just after we signed the contract for Jeni's teeth - we suggested calling it the Newell wing), and thank goodness for Jeni who is a sophomore here at Moorestown High who helps keep me from feeling incredibly old as the other kids are off doing their own things and barely passing through to visit on breaks! They're all incredibly bright and beautiful (spoken like a true mom) and I'm wildly blessed.

So glad to read of your journeys. Thanks to Bob for finding me and calling and encouraging me to write.

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