Lawrence Dunbar Cavanagh Jr. was born in Norwalk in 1942. He graduated from Portsmouth Abbey School and then attended the Georgetown School of Foreign Service (when Bill Clinton was there). After serving in the merchant marine and the U.S. Navy, Lawrence earned a BS and MBA from NYU’s Stern School of Business. From 1973 to 1976, he was with the New York Fed (in economic research). After that, he was a writer and editor at Business International (in a job later held by Barack Obama). Lawrence’s next employment was at European American Bank, where he created and ran their currency forecasting service. Later, he worked for the Chicago Board Options Exchange in a truly transformative position as liaison between the Exchange and major trading desks. From 1991 until retirement in 2011, Lawrence worked for Value Line Inc., where he re-modeled, redesigned, and ran Value Line Options, an online subscription service (available at the Darien Library). He met his wife, Eleanor Reimer, in 1972, when she was working on her PhD in Medieval History. They live in Rowayton. Lawrence is a member of the Saugatuck Shore Club, a board member of the Norwalk Symphony, and president of a 97-yer-old charity foundation.
Sponsored by Jim Frayer.