Scott Bart: Start of a
Marriage
Scott
Bart and Elizabeth Cappell conducted their courtship in a
96th-floor office at 1 World Trade Center.
He was an up-and-coming vice president at Marsh &
McLennan, she a student teacher at the nearby High School
for Leadership and Public Service. When school let out,
Ms. Cappell would grade papers alongside her future
husband so that work would not separate them.
Often, Mr. Bart read the books his fiancée was
teaching so they could talk about them. And he tried to
confine business trips to one day.
The couple set a wedding date for Aug. 4, planned a
Mexican honeymoon and bought a house in Malverne, close
to his family and hers. Mr. Bart, 28, loved carpentry
projects, learned at his father's knee, and had already
built a chest of drawers and sketched plans for a deck.
Mrs. Bart, 24, got a job teaching English at a Long
Island High School.
The Barts' wedding day was vintage Scott, Mrs. Bart
said. He did not want friends to spend a fortune for
hotel rooms. So he turned over their new house &emdash;
Hotel Bart, they called it &emdash; to a score of
celebrants, who slept on couches, in sleeping bags and on
the floor of rooms as yet unfurnished. He also rented a
yellow school bus to transport everyone from the church
to the reception. "He made sure everything was taken care
of," Mrs. Bart said.
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