| Notes |
But before I begin my remarks, I really want to acknowledge my family, my husband, Michael, my two beautiful children, Evan and Meredith, my brother, Josh and his girlfriend, Sarah, my stepdaughters and their husbands and my grandchildren. But in particular I want to thank my parents, Carol and Avram Goldberg, for who you are, and the values you represent and what you have taught me.
In our family we have often talked about the nature of the values we have shared generationally – from the beginning we have believed in and made a commitment to making sure everyone around us had opportunity – opportunity to achieve stability, security and fulfilled lives. These are the values from both sides of my family.
When my mother’s great grandmother opened a little grocery store in the North End of Boston, every friend or relative who arrived had a job and a roof over their heads. Then she and a few of the other ladies in the neighborhood started a home for the elderly – the store became Stop & Shop and the home for the elderly, Hebrew Senior Life. It was about economic security, stability and empowerment.
My Dad’s father, the youngest of 11 from Lawrence graduated number one in his class at Lawrence High School, just like Bioribel, who is here with her family today.
He was the first in his family to go to college and graduated from Harvard in 1911 and Harvard Law School in 1914. He became a public servant right here in the Commonwealth because he believed in service – at the same time at the age of 27 and still a bachelor, he and his best friend, were the founders of Jewish Big Brother Big Sister – the precursor to Big Brother Big Sister.
This passion, this mission that is within me from all of them, and from you, that is why I ran for treasurer. To apply my skills, my experience and my background – to do my part to ensure that both our state and our people have economic stability and security, opportunity for personal empowerment. |