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FRANK DOYLE: 'I Have to Stay'

 

When Frank Doyle came home from his job on Wall Street, he would play with his  two young children and get them to bed. Only then did Mr. Doyle pull on his running shoes, go outside and run hills in his Englewood, N.J., neighborhood to train for triathlons.

"He was a tremendous athlete," said  Kimmy Chedel, his wife of four years. The couple ran their first triathlon together on  Aug. 5.

Ms. Chedel said she met Mr. Doyle on an evening cruise of New York Harbor for college alumni of his school, Bowdoin College in Maine, and her school, Middlebury  College in Vermont. His name tag fell off and stuck to her shoe. "I said, 'Who is  Frank Doyle?'" she said. "He came over when he heard his name. It was love at first  sight."

Mr. Doyle, 39, who was head of equity trading at Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, called  his wife after terrorists struck the World Trade Center's north tower. "I have to stay," he said. After the south tower, which contained Mr. Doyle's office, was struck, he  called her again, saying that he and many others were trapped. "He very calmly said,  `We need your help,'" Ms. Chedel said. "Up to the last minute of his life, he was a team player."

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From "Profiles in Grief" of The New York Times