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The Era of At age 80, John Whitehead ’43 finds himself Michael Norcia/NY Post John Whitehead (left) meets with Gov. Pataki. JohnW 16 Haverford Magazine
Restoration facing the biggest challenge of his life: restoring New York City to its former glory. by Brenna McBride September 11, John Whitehead was in London, having lunch. It was 2 p.m.– 9 a.m. New York time– when someone flew through the doors of the restaurant to announce the news. A patron turned on the television, and Whitehead watched in stunned silence as the city he loved bled from wounds that seemed irreparable. “I felt like a sailor who had missed his ship,” he explains. “Like the ship had gone off to war without me. I felt badly being so far away from home.” New York City had been more than a home to Whitehead; it was a lifelong friend, the kind with which you grow up and share triumphs, tragedies, happiness, and heartbreak. It’s the friend that even distance can’t chase away. Aside from his years at Haverford and his time in the Navy, John Whitehead had never lived far away from New York for more than four years, having been raised in nearby Montclair, New Jersey, and then living in Manhattan for the past 13 years. And now, when the city was in unimaginable pain, he couldn’t be there to comfort, help, or heal. It took him three more days to get a flight home from London. Now, he’s more than making up for that lost time. As chair of the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation—an 11-member agency organized by New York governor George Pataki to coordinate rebuilding efforts in Manhattan and direct the spending hitehead Spring2002 17
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