Word: aileen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Take Aileen Rappaport, 53, of Washington, a vice president for Loomis, Sayles & Co., an investment-management firm. Seven years ago, she decided to go to golf school so she could compete with colleagues she saw doing deals over 18 holes. It paid off. "Every time I went out on the course, a deal went down," Rappaport says. "On one of my first outings with a client, I closed a $200 million sale." Several weeks ago (after six sessions at golf school), Rappaport closed a $300 million sale...
...Aileen's first husband, Dwight Young, was killed in World War II, leaving her to raise their daughter Yvonne alone. Aileen later acquired three stepchildren when she married again, to Howard Soule, also a diver. She has continued to write, for the New Yorker, Good Housekeeping and, as recently as January, Swim Canada...
...never stopped swimming either. In May her family gave her a 90th birthday party and then put her on a plane for the U.S. Masters Swimming Championships in Cupertino, California. Aileen, the youngest female gold medalist in 1920 (and oldest living female one in the U.S.), won four gold medals in her age group...
Earlier this year, Aileen attended the U.S. Swimming Olympic trials in Indianapolis and was struck by how much things had changed. "I wrote down a list of 50 things that swimmers have today that we didn't, everything from starting blocks to weights to suits. You should have seen our suits, with their little ruffled skirts. And they were made of wool. Imagine what wet wool feels like against your skin...
...thing that hasn't changed, according to Aileen, is the feel of competition. "Girls today want very much to win, just as we did," she says. "But they also seem to care as much for each other as we did. That bonding is as important as the winning. I think that's what the Olympics are about...