{"id":1711,"date":"2007-01-24T09:09:03","date_gmt":"2007-01-24T09:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/24\/a_woman_of_valo\/"},"modified":"2014-08-04T05:10:54","modified_gmt":"2014-08-04T05:10:54","slug":"a_woman_of_valo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/24\/a_woman_of_valo\/","title":{"rendered":"A Woman of Valor"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Lisa_goldberg_cropped_2\"<\/a> Lisa Goldberg<\/a>, 54 years old, died this week of a brain aneurysm.\u00a0 When I heard, all I could think was “what a waste.”\u00a0 While it’s always sad when someone dies, especially to those who loved them, Lisa, quietly (there are so few photos of her available online that I had to use this candid) and with great dignity, contributed so much.\u00a0 President of the Charles H. Revson Foundation<\/a>, she was responsible for funding many impressive programs.\u00a0 Some dealt with Jewish issues, some with urban social change<\/a>, and, as in the one through which I met her, some dealt with issues relating to women.<\/p>\n

\"Wmc_logo_1\"<\/a> Two years ago, she had the foresight to issue a planning grant to support the launch of the Women’s Media Center<\/a>, a project for women in journalism whose founders include Gloria Steinem<\/a>, Jane Fonda<\/a>, Eve Ensler<\/a> and Marlene Sanders<\/a> among other great pioneers.\u00a0 In the time since, the Center has made great strides and become a force not only for women journalists but in the coverage of issues that matter to or involve women.<\/p>\n

I didn’t know Lisa well – more admired her from afar.\u00a0 Her role at Revson was remarkable, and her leadership made difference in a great many lives.\u00a0 She was Best Woman at the wedding of a friend of mine — which I always thought was pretty cool.\u00a0 Beyond a few conversations about the Center or books we loved, we didn’t have that much contact.<\/p>\n

One incident though, to me, is typical of her.\u00a0 I was “staffing” the early days of the Women’s Media Center and we were meeting at the Manhattan headquarters of the Revson Foundation.\u00a0 Some material had not been printed, there was a blizzard, and I barely had time to get to the offices much less to Kinko’s.\u00a0 Lisa’s staff helped me get everything printed, collated and bound without breaking a sweat – OR acting like they were doing me a favor (which they were…..)\u00a0 \u00a0I sent Lisa a note letting her know how great they had been.\u00a0 Her response was typical of my perception of her.\u00a0 She thanked me for letting her know, told me she had forwarded my note to the young women who had helped me and added how high her own regard was for each of them.\u00a0 Again – quiet, unassuming and on the mark.<\/p>\n

Of course there’s one other thing.\u00a0 When someone dies suddenly, there’s always a moment of terror.\u00a0 In this case, just as I always measure the deaths of older people by whether they were older or younger than my father was when he died, I was shocked to realize that Lisa was younger than I.\u00a0 It’s a credit to her, though, that this thought was fleeting and quickly banished.\u00a0 The loss of such a “woman of valor” is tough enough on its own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lisa Goldberg, 54 years old, died this week of a brain aneurysm.\u00a0 When I heard, all I could think was “what a waste.”\u00a0 While it’s always sad when someone dies, especially to those who loved them, Lisa, quietly (there are so few photos of her available online that I had to use this candid) and … Continue reading A Woman of Valor<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,6,2764,7,9,98],"tags":[250,2363,2362,2312,287,219,2177,557,2361,44,848],"class_list":["post-1711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aging","category-culture","category-i-seem-to-write-a-lot-of-obits","category-life","category-politics","category-religion","tag-death","tag-donors","tag-foundations","tag-grief","tag-journalism","tag-judaism","tag-media","tag-obituary","tag-philanthropy","tag-women-2","tag-womens-issues"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4gBq8-rB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1711"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2472,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1711\/revisions\/2472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}