Alex Ciccone: Friendly
Rivalry
Alex
Ciccone was a very big fan of the New York Mets. His
wife, Stephanie, who he met on a blind date in the late
1980's, came from a family that loved the Yankees. "That
was a problem," she said. "We had a lot of fun with
that."
Mr. Ciccone, 38, was a vice president at Marsh Inc.,
the insurance brokerage subsidiary of Marsh &
McLennan Companies. With a staff of eight, he was a
rising star. "I had a conversation with one of my bosses
about a month before Sept. 11," said Bruce Pepchinsky,
who was Mr. Ciccone's boss for four years. "The strong
indication was that Alex would be promoted to senior vice
president. He was a great problem solver, an executive
who treated his staff as students as opposed to a big bad
boss."
When he was not putting in 12- or 13-hour days at
work, Mr. Ciccone loved to hang out in his yard in New
Rochelle, N.Y., with his son, Stephen, 6, and his
daughter, Julia, 5.
He was also a big Bruce Springsteen fan. But Annette
Casarella, his sister, associates her brother with
another recording artist. "He wore out a 45 record of
`Lean on Me,' by Bill Withers," she said. "When we were
little I can remember his playing it over and over and
over. Last summer, before this happened, we talked about
how much he loved that song."
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