David M. Berray: What to Do?
Everything
David
M. Berray had a "to do" list that was extraordinary, his
wife, Alison Berray, said.
"He'd write down everything from taking out the trash
to fly fishing on the Housatonic River in Connecticut to
climbing Mt. Fuji. He'd get up very early in the morning
and start the list."
Mr. Berray managed to accomplish just about all of the
things he planned. The Berrays spent five years in Hong
Kong and they rarely passed an idle moment.
They boated down the Mekong River, fished in Canton
and hiked in Laos, Thailand and Cambodia. Once they went
to New Zealand, where the summer days stretch dangerously
long.
"Giving David 16 hours a day of sunlight was
exhausting," Mrs. Berray said.
"It would be ten o'clock at night, the sun would still
be up and David would ask, `What do you want to do next?'
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Despite his abundant energy, Mr. Berray, 39, managed
to take time off to stay home when each of his two
children were born.
He had earned a master's degree from M.I.T. in
technology management in 2000 and after a dozen years in
banking, became chief operations officer for MoneyLine,
an Internet based financial services company.
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