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Images of America: Connecticut
Litchfield
Litchfield was founded 57 years before the Declaration of Independence, and it wears its distinctive history proudly. Visitors first note the town's scenic beauty, then its pace, friendly atmosphere, and historic architecture. Litchfield was the home of Harriet Beecher Stowe, the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin; Ethan Allen, a hero of the Revolutionary War; Sarah Pierce, whose Litchfield Female Academy pioneered education for women; Tapping Reeve, founder of the first American law school; and Oliver Wolcott, signer of the Declaration of Independence. Litchfield was also the home of Alain and Margaret White, whose visionary donation of 4,000 acres of woodlands and wetlands thrust Litchfield into the forefront of nature conservancy. Litchfield guides readers around the village green, through the town's historic district, and to the nearby White Memorial Conservation Center.
128 pages, Paperback
First published July 18, 2011
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About the author
Ralph White
2 books17 followersABOUT THE AUTHOR
In his first two years after college, Ralph White managed branches of the American Express International Banking Corporation in Okinawa and Vietnam under contract with the U.S. Treasury.
In 1973 White joined The Chase Manhattan Bank and, following a yearlong training program in New York, worked as a business development officer in Chase branches in Thailand and Hong Kong. During his stint in Thailand, he was temporarily assigned to Vietnam to close the bank’s Saigon branch during the fall of Saigon, for which he was awarded the organization’s highest honor: Chase’s President’s Award. Upon return to Chase’s New York headquarters in 1981 he worked in the International Strategic Planning Division. At the time he left Chase he was a vice president.
Over the next twenty years, White enjoyed a rewarding career as a business development officer with three foreign banks, while also finding the time to earn an MBA at Columbia University. He completed his career as a senior vice president in financial engineering at Marsh and McLennan Securities.
On April 1, 2001, White was turned down for an internal transfer within Marsh which would have put him on the 93rd floor of World Trade Center, Tower One. Four months later, on September 11, everyone in that office was killed, including the officer who got the job for which White was turned down. He lost five friends that day. The incident precipitated an epiphany and White resolved to change the trajectory of his life.
In 2009 he founded the Columbia Fiction Foundry, a shared interest group and writing workshop under Columbia University’s Office of Alumni and Development. After serving as the organization’s president for its first decade, White continues to serve as its chairman.
He is the author of Getting Out of Saigon, published by Simon and Schuster on April 4, 2022. The book describes the author's rescue of the Vietnamese employees of the Saigon Branch of the Chase Manhattan Bank during the fall of Saigon in 1975.
He is the author of Litchfield, a local history including 200 vintage photographs of his Connecticut hometown, published in 2011 in Arcadia Publishing’s Images of America series.
Mr. White lives in New York City and Litchfield, Connecticut. He is single and childless—unless you count the 113 Vietnamese refugees he adopted and brought to America during the fall of Saigon in 1975.
In his first two years after college, Ralph White managed branches of the American Express International Banking Corporation in Okinawa and Vietnam under contract with the U.S. Treasury.
In 1973 White joined The Chase Manhattan Bank and, following a yearlong training program in New York, worked as a business development officer in Chase branches in Thailand and Hong Kong. During his stint in Thailand, he was temporarily assigned to Vietnam to close the bank’s Saigon branch during the fall of Saigon, for which he was awarded the organization’s highest honor: Chase’s President’s Award. Upon return to Chase’s New York headquarters in 1981 he worked in the International Strategic Planning Division. At the time he left Chase he was a vice president.
Over the next twenty years, White enjoyed a rewarding career as a business development officer with three foreign banks, while also finding the time to earn an MBA at Columbia University. He completed his career as a senior vice president in financial engineering at Marsh and McLennan Securities.
On April 1, 2001, White was turned down for an internal transfer within Marsh which would have put him on the 93rd floor of World Trade Center, Tower One. Four months later, on September 11, everyone in that office was killed, including the officer who got the job for which White was turned down. He lost five friends that day. The incident precipitated an epiphany and White resolved to change the trajectory of his life.
In 2009 he founded the Columbia Fiction Foundry, a shared interest group and writing workshop under Columbia University’s Office of Alumni and Development. After serving as the organization’s president for its first decade, White continues to serve as its chairman.
He is the author of Getting Out of Saigon, published by Simon and Schuster on April 4, 2022. The book describes the author's rescue of the Vietnamese employees of the Saigon Branch of the Chase Manhattan Bank during the fall of Saigon in 1975.
He is the author of Litchfield, a local history including 200 vintage photographs of his Connecticut hometown, published in 2011 in Arcadia Publishing’s Images of America series.
Mr. White lives in New York City and Litchfield, Connecticut. He is single and childless—unless you count the 113 Vietnamese refugees he adopted and brought to America during the fall of Saigon in 1975.
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