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Bushman, Clarissa, 1956-

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1956-

Biographical History

Clarissa Bushman (1956- ) was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, banker and teacher in New York.

Clarissa Bushman was born on October 3, 1956, to parents Richard L.and Claudia L. Bushman. She attended Brigham Young University, Harvard University, and Colombia University. She worked as a banker for various major banks including J.P. Morgan and Lehman Brothers and was involved in the dance industry as a volunteer for the Tri-State Center for the Arts in Pine Plains, New York between 1991 and 1995. She married Charles K. Ortel on January 10, 1982 and together they had two children.

In 2003, she left her position as Vice President of International Capital Markets for Lehman Brothers to go back to university to get her credentials to be a high school economics teacher. After she completed this program, she taught as an economics teacher for Stuyvesant High School until 2013. In 2013, after discovering she had been diagnosed with follicular thyroid cancer, she retired from teaching.

Citation:
UPB files, October 6, 2014, (Clarissa Bushman (1956- ) was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Ivy League graduate, and banker, who raised two children in New York. Clarissa Bushman was born on October 3, 1956, to parents Richard L.and Claudia L. Bushman. She attended Brigham Young Unviersity, Harvard University, and Colombia University. She worked as a banker and was involved in the dance industry. She marries Charles K. Ortel and together they had 2 children. Bushman currently lives in New York.).

Facebook.com, via WWW, July 29, 2016 (Banks Clarissa worked for included Salomon Brothers, J.P. Morgan, Morgan Stanley, and Lehman Brothers. Worked as a teacher of economics in Stuyvesant High School between 2003-2013. Volunteered at the Tri-State Center for the Arts in Pine Plains, NY between 1991 and 1995. Was diagnosed with follicular thyroid cancer in 2013.)

The New York Times, January 10, 1982 (She married Charles K. Ortel in Grace Episcopal Church on January 10, 1982.)

Found in 1 Collection or Record:

Richard L. Bushman and Claudia L. Bushman papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 2052
Scope and Contents Collection contains personal and professional papers in addition to other memorabilia from the Bushman family encompassing the years of 1946 to 2012. This includes correspondence, diaries, transcripts, manuscripts, research files, photographs, and printed ephemera. Among the papers are research materials for a project on Mormons in Elkton, Maryland from 1984 to 1985, which includes ward records, journals of local Church members, and interview transcripts. Also includes documentation related...
Dates: 1946-2012