My Dad, Harry Jay Rubin, and my mother, Margaret Charlap Cohen Rubin, were a faithful couple for over 59 years.

My mother's brother, Donn Cohen, and my Dad were college friends at the University of Pennsylvania. My father attended Yale Law School, and Donn attended Harvard Law. My Uncle Donn referred my Dad to my maternal grandfather, Pennsylvania Attorney General Herbert Cohen, who hired my Dad as a Deputy Attorney General. My Dad was hired based on his exceptional talent and integrity just two years after graduating from Yale Law School. In 1956 my grandfather became a Justice on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, while my Dad remained in his role as a Deputy AG in the PA Department of Justice. Subsequently, my Dad met my mother, and they fell in love and married on June 15th, 1958.

My parents were strong on family values and mind-body health. They discussed mental health openly, and they were physically fit. When we were at the shore each August, my Dad tended to gain 10 pounds or so enjoying my mother's excellent cooking, but then lose the weight in September. My parents instilled morality, core values, and self-discipline in us, leading by example, and through parental nurturing. (No contract with their children was needed). My sisters and I achieved that on our own. Simultaneously, my parents were open-minded liberal reformers, although not hard-left.

I was raised to be both moral and open-minded, to excel on the basis of my own abilities, competing fairly, and to be self-disciplined in my professional and personal life.

LEFT: "Boy Wonder Drafts Tax," Philadelphia Inquirer, November 23, 1955

RIGHT: "Margaret Cohen Weds: Daughter of State Supreme Court Judge Becomes Bride of Harry J. Rubin," York Dispatch, June 17th, 1958