Janice had short notice I was coming to interview her but when I arrived she was more than prepared. She had travel albums, genealogy information and vintage family photos. It is no surprise that she feels she has always been an "over achiever". One of two sisters born in Brooklyn, New York, Janice is the daughter of Pauline and Morgan Grossman. Her mother was sent from her home town of El Paso, Texas to the Julliard School in New York to study. There she met and married Janice's father a native New Yorker. The men of the Grossman family (Morgan along with Janice's grandfather Adolph), built the family business of shoe manufacturing and sales. The business thrived and even during the days of the depression her family was fortunate to have what they needed to thrive. As Janice grew, her parents sent her to private schools. She attended the Packer Collegiate Institution and graduated from Cornell University. At Cornell she was the president of the Cornell Chapter of AEPhi and very active on the debate team. Then, as she is now, Janice was very active in the socializing but is quick to tell you it was not all fun and games, she did a lot of studying "between events". After college she married her first husband and before their divorce had one daughter, Jane Weston. Jane recently retired as one of the New York Times Sunday editors. Her second marriage to Emanuel Halperin was happy and long lived and produced two more children, Morgan and Linda. Morgan, an attorney and his wife Susan have two beautiful daughters, Lindsey and Chelsea and they live the small town life in Nevada City, California. Morgan and his wife love to travel and do so regularly. Janice believes her son inherited the travel bug from her. While Janice was not a member of the military she is very proud of the fact that her husband Emanuel was on Eisenhower's staff during WWII and traveled extensively with him. During the time her husband was away and for most of her life Janice has been a volunteer for a variety of organizations. Most of her volunteer talent was in fund raising, event planning and volunteer training. While she no longer travels, there was a time Janice says she was an "in depth" traveler, spending her time on the back roads and lesser traveled thoroughfares of foreign lands such as Australia, New Zealand and China. "I was always interested in how the people of other countries lived, not so much the tourist activities". She has been to Europe several times but prefers staying close to home now and having the children and Grand- children come visit her here. Bridge, Bingo, movies and parties fill her hours here at the Towers. Law and Order is her favorite TV show and she likes them all, SUV, Criminal Intent and the original. A special addition to her family came to live with her about three years ago, Calie the black and tan calico cat, is curled up at our feet lying in a patch of sun that shines through the sliding glass doors. Calie is about eleven years old and was placed with Janice by a rescue organization. Calie is a lucky cat to have found such a great place to live. Retired life is good. Janice enjoys sleeping in when she wants, doing what she pleases and being the master of her own destiny. She feels any success she has had is related to her upbringing, she had good parents that provided her with a wonderful mix of art and business sense. It is important to her to be a kind and caring person but she prefers to stay in the background now, unless of course, you need her.