A Wonderful Life

[Review the places, the organizations, the committees, the individuals who would be bereft and impoverished had he or she not graced the stage of life.]

This very day draws to a close the Christmas season and so I’m given the liberty of referencing a yuletide illustration, in particular, the Frank Capra’s movie classic: It’s a Wonderful Life. We all know the story. George Bailey, played by James Stewart, lives in the fictional town of Bedford Falls N.Y. where he marries a beautiful girl, starts a family, and finds success as the owner of a Buildings and Loan Association. Hard times strike the banking industry and when George’s Uncle Billy loses a bank deposit of $8,000, it appears the Building and Loan Association would have to close and with it would come bankruptcy, scanda…