Alice Cooperstein

I first came to Woods Hole the summer of 1947 (the year I was married) because my husband's professor, Walter Wainio, offered my husband a place in his lab. I was working in New York and came up weekends on the train. When my husband and I first came to Woods Hole, he was a student. I was a tag-along. We stayed in a rooming house on Millfield Street and ate at the mess. The food was terrible, and in addition, in short supply. Whenever we could afford to (we were poor), we would go to Captain Kidd for a 25 cent hamburger. We returned again in the summer of 1948. My husband presented some work at a Tuesday night seminar which led to his being offered a job and an enrollment in a Ph.D program in Cleveland with Dr. Arnold Lazarow. This led to our continued coming to Woods Hole in summers.

I became a Professor of Accounting at Central Connecticut State University. I worked there for 32 years. Along the way I was a stay-at-home mom for many years, continued going to school, collected a few degrees, did some consulting work in the fields of finance and accounting. In the past, I have done a great deal of volunteering - at the library, at school (both in WH and West Hartford), at hospitals, at the Science School, with the Samaritans, helping people with financial problems, etc.

My husband died in 2004. I relocated to Woods Hole in 2006, moved to Pennsylvania in 2010, and come to Woods Hole for extended summers.

I like to read - I'll read almost anything covering fiction and non-fiction - and I continue going to school. I currently am enrolled at Carnegie Mellon University and have taken a variety of classes (forensics,opera, history,religion,etc). I am developing new interests in gardening and bird watching. I enjoy talking to people.

I have had a wonderful life. I have two children and five grandchildren: a physician, a lawyer, a nurse practitioner, a PhD student in brain neurology, and a temporary computer person.

I remember well the trains, the fish market, the barbershop, Lowey's at the corner, the old aquarium, the Hurricane of 1954, the unhurried life, Old Main, etc. These were wonderful times. My children had wonderful times. We all made friendships which are still vibrant. What a wonderful life!