On selling the firm at the turn of the millenium, Dina and Bernard moved to a rural cattle and hay ranch in the northern Colorado mountains. The business took all her energy for twelve years and required postponing the myriad trips that she had imagined the two would take together, eventually leaving Dina a fuming mess of delayed gratification. Together they built and ran a dynamic and successful firm, proving you can love someone and still hate them when they disagree with you publicly in a business meeting. They married six months after meeting and have remained married despite the sad statistics depressing other baby boomers.Īfter several years with a Denver PR firm using her sense of humor and gift with words to promote major sports franchises, financial institutions and hospitality companies, she decided to join Bernard in his fledgling software localization company. He was French, which might have been a bad thing, but proved not to be. Her competitive spirit and generally anxious outlook on life continued at Pomona College, Claremont, California where she studied sociology her nights were spent perfecting cribbage moves and breaking into the dining halls to satisfy post-midnight cravings.įollowing graduation, she moved to Boulder, Colorado, worked for several cultural organizations, got her MBA and bided her time till her future husband, Bernard, arrived in town. The summers of her youth were spent in France, Switzerland and Italy, hopelessly comparing her moody self to her sunny, chic French cousins. Her parents made sure weekends were spent on hiking trails or ski slopes Dina took to these activities like a duck to water, thrilled to have the chance to impress upon her tall, slender blonde older sister exactly who was tougher. The new foursome soon left the city for a house in the suburbs, with a garden large enough for the budding tomboy to run around. Dina Bennett was born in Manhattan, New York, in 1955, to a French mother, an Austrian father and immediately attentive older sister.
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