Alfred Nobel (1833-1896), the inventor of dynamite, was a chemist, engineer, businessman and, most memorably, philanthropist; he was also a scholar, fluent in Russian, French, English and German. Above all, he loved poetry.
Celia was a graduate of Roeliff Jansen High School in 1947 and Albany Business College in 1948. She later worked at the Hotchkiss School as secretary to the headmaster.
