Camps of building all the Cancer Hospital and airfields in the United States and the pentagon. I became one of the five to the bossofficers of the pentagon job. He supervised 40 or 50 architects, and a great big team of general contractors. Our job was trying to stay on top of all that. When the contract was finished, the general picked me up and i went to the manhattan district, it was a very quiet, very secretive project. Secretive, it so was five or 10 years after the war that i began telling people what i really should have told them at the outset. After the war, i went into the Construction Business on my own. I worked at that for 50 years. Built about 800 buildings. If one of them was leaning, we would go profit up. Trying and keep it from collapsing. We quit that just recently, i do for the general contracting work. At the time we had 250 people on the payroll. Most of the time it was more like 70 or 80. We built churches and hospitals, whatever came along. Schools, lots of scho
Good evening and welcome to the New York Historical society. Im the president and ceo and this evening i have the great pleasure of interviewing Eva Moskowitz who i ceo of the Largest Charter School Network in new york, the Success Academy. Tonights program is a part of our bernard and Irene Schwartz distinguished speaks series and as always id like to think mr. Swartz for his great generosity and leadership which has enables to us bring so many prominent speakers to the stage. Id also just like to mention that our chairman emeritus, Roger Hertzog hoped to be here but his travel schedule conflicts with the programming. Susan hertzog, who has as advised us is here and thank fer for all she has down on behalf of New York Historical. [applause] so, tonights program will last an hour and it will include a question and answer session. Questions will be written on note cards. You should have received a note card as you entered the auditorium this evening. If you did not, my colleagues are st
Forecast. First, we want to talk about tuxes and tails. How did it go . Lindsay it was a one of time. Its for the Humane Society of tampa bay. I believe over 50 adoptables got adopted. Some pictures of the fox crew. Theyre sherry was there and this is snickerdoodle. We love to support them and all the one of the, good things ill try to find out this morning how much they raised, but i believe it was close to 200,000. Congrats to them. It was a wonderful night. Its a wonderful morning if you like cold temperatures. I couldnt believe the 40, and i saw that it was in the forecast. North of tampa bay its really chilly. A warmer jacket in brooksville and its 42. 55 in tampa. Thats cooler than yesterday. Wauchula is 49. The blue. 24hour changes were big yesterday and bigger for some today. 14 degrees cooler in lakeland, and the reason why our air is to dry with the lighter winds overnight we took a tumble temperaturewise. Sunshine today but as High Pressure slips to the east, an easterly com