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Susan Retik was born in Philadelphia and received a Bachelor of Arts from Colgate University, where she met David Retik. Upon graduating, Susan worked in the field of marketing at Scholastic in New York City until moving to Needham, Massachusetts where she still resides with her three children. Susan is active in various humanitarian and women’s organizations around the globe. She is currently on the boards of Our Voices Together and the David E. Retik Christopher D. Mello Foundation. In 2005, Susan contributed her story of Beyond the 11th’s origins to the Peace Times, a monthly publication distributed by the international Peace X Peace organization. Since founding Beyond the 11th, Susan has spoken to numerous community organizations and was a featured panelist at the 2006 International Women’s Day Conference hosted by the International Institute of Boston. Patti Quigley was born in Lowell, Massachusetts. She went to college in Lowell and stayed close to her family until she moved to Atlanta, Georgia at 26. Patti was following her career in the banking industry. When she met Patrick, he had just moved to Georgia from New Jersey. Patti and Patrick were together for three years before they married in 1993. The couple moved seven times in their eleven years together. They moved to Wellesley, Massachusetts in May of 2001 to be closer to their families. Just four months later, one week after their daughter Rachel started kindergarten, Patrick was killed. Patti was eight months pregnant with their second daughter, Leah. |
Source: CARE International 
