Dr. Charles Hennekens was the first to demonstrate aspirin as a preventative of a first heart attack and that aspirin, taken during a heart attack decreases subsequent strokes and death. He is the first Sir Richard Doll Professor at Florida Atlantic Univ.

Feliks Frenkel describes family life in Russia, student years in Siberia, and the immigrant's adjustment to a new country. Mr. Frenkel chairs COJECO's board, serves on UJA-Federation's Board and as an Exec. Committee Member. A philanthropist & leader.

Brooklyn born, Steve Aiello taught social studies; served as vice president and president of the Board of Education, supporting the Bilingual Commission and the Office of Bilingual Education; serving in President Carter's Office of Ethnic Affairs.

Coming from Puerto Rico, in hard times, a child from a large family-with luck, Candido Perez finds work repairing steel casement windows; perhaps marking the beginning of his hard route to the presidency of Optimum Window, producer of fire-rated windows.

Peter Carroll, a partner in the management-consultant company, Oliver Wyman, graduating from Cambridge, back-packed through California. Working at a winery may have triggered his passion for the wine business and ownership of Long Island's Lenz Winery.

Louis Shapiro, President and CEO of the Hospital for Special Surgery, talks about his childhood, his parents, their illnesses, and his passion for healing-effecting the direction of his career. HSS specializes in orthopedic surgery and rheumatic illness.

J. Morton Davis (Morty) born in 1929, had a rocky childhood, quitting school at 14. Morty graduated Brooklyn College, magna cum laude, and Harvard Graduate School, with distinction, to own and chair, D.H. Blair Investment Banking Corp.

Brooklyn Union Gas, KeySpan, National Grid, and now as chairman of the Board of the Advanced Energy Research and Technology Center (AERTC) at Stony Brook, Robert Catell describes his extraordinary journey from Brooklyn shoe-shine kid to corporate leader.

Edwin Kantor, chairman and son, Steven Kantor, CEO enjoy leadership of S2K Partners. This father and son team reminisce about Brooklyn (Jefferson High School, Syracuse University) and careers with Cantor Fitzgerald, Credit Suisse leading to S2K success.

The Herberts came to America from Scotland in the 1700s to become the Harberts-and ancestors to Joseph Harbert, president of the Eastern Region of Colliers International, a commercial real estate brokerage firm.