I'm helping a friend with her search for her birth parents. Birth mother was named either Virginia or Betty Lassiter and resided in Nyack, NY, in 1942. At that time she was listed as being 23 years old, born in VA, a retail secretary, and Jewish. On August 29, 1942, this woman gave birth to a baby girl that she gave up for adoption. Recent info indictates that the birth father was a graduate of Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, NJ, and was from a very prominent family. I have found a few alumni of this college from the late 1930s and early 1940s, but none remembers or will admit remembering anything about this situation. There is a possibility that the birth father was living or working in Nyack in late 1941 and 1942. Stevens is an engineering college, so I feel that his employment would be in engineering. Now........how would I go about finding this type company in Nyack during this time frame, and how would I find a man from a prominent family who married a woman named either Virginia or Betty? We have reason to believe that the birth mother and birth father did get married, either before or after the baby was given up for adoption, but probably after. Is this impossible? Two pictures of a woman we believe to be this birth mother are on our website at http://members.aol.com/bamamama/index.htm. If anything at all looks or sounds familiar, please contact me. Thanks in advance, Judy Lassiter