Sarah Marden
20 Years can’t have passed us by already, we’re getting old! Sometimes it feels like an eternity, yet in keeping up with my good friends, Meredith Hughes Donohue, Becca Munro Horning, Brigitte Barton Mansourian, and Corinne Martin Wilson, it feels like no time has passed at all. I guess that is what old friends are like, timeless and I feel lucky to have made these relationships in Darien. So much has happened, but in a nutshell, here goes.
After graduating from St. Lawrence University in ‘92 I lived in New Canaan and worked in Greenwich for three years at a small muni bond boutique as a trading assistant. During that time, I met my husband Palmer. He distracted me so much (in a good way that is) that it took me two times to finally pass my series 7. Shortly thereafter, we got married in May of ‘95, moved to MA for a couple of years, first Concord then to Newburyport. I continued working with muni bonds for five more years at Fidelity Capital Markets, then moved to the retail side of the market and worked for Paine Webber. In the summer of ‘00, Palmer took a new job which brought us back to CT. He had been working in the golf business and switched gears to work in the financial industry, specifically with pension plans. He works for MassMutual as the National Managing Director for the non-profit market. I took a job w ith Smith Barney for just under two years until I decided that l needed a change so I worked as a fund raiser for CT College. During that time we got pregnant. I arranged to go back to work part time and work with planned gifts. Then in December of ‘03 when our first son, Madison was born, I had a change of heart and decided to stay home fulltime. Madison is now 4 1/2 and has a little brother who arrived on Halloween in ‘06, named Shep. After years of working and traveling in between with Palmer, I have to say that being at home now is the best job I’ve ever had. I do live in a household of testosterone with my boys but can’t imagine it any other way. We’ve been happily settled in Essex, CT for the last eight years and it’s been great. I am busy with my boys and volunteering in our community. My parents left Darien in ‘96 and moved to Ponte Vedra Beach F L, only to return to CT two years ago. They now live about three miles from us here in Essex, it’s so nice having them near by, especially for our boys. Look forward to seeing everyone at the reunion!
