Jacqueline Irene Chute [52569] ¹⁰

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Jacqueline Irene Chute:

I'm employed as a Technical Writer for a pharmaceutical company based in Rockland County, New York; prior to that, I was Administrative Manager for an advertising and media firm, based in Manhattan, for 15 years. I'm also the United States estate representative for the late Italian actor and director Rossano Brazzi (friends of the family) - thanks to this enjoyable occupation, I love spending time in Italy (and can even make myself understood, upon occasion!) and have become a passionate soccer fan. After twenty years in Yonkers, New York, I purchased a home at the top of a mountain overlooking a beautiful lake in Warwick Township, New York, where I enjoy the beautiful natural surroundings, quilting (although I call it "textile art" and hope no one notices I'm making a quilt), keeping track of Chutes, and, one of these days, plan to learn carpentry, so I can build gorgeous furniture for my house.


Type: Book
Title:Chute Family in America in the 20th Century
Author: George Maynard Chute, Jr.
Publication: University Microfilms International, Ann Arbor, Michigan & London
Date: 1967
LOCA: Privately held



Jacqueline Irene Chute
Date of Contribution: 21 September 2001

On Tuesday morning, I was on an express bus, on the approach to the Lincoln Tunnel; this places us directly across the Hudson River and slightly north of the Towers. For a few minutes already we could see a fire in one tower and were already aware that some disaster had taken place, but did not know what had happened; certainly we were all upset and horrified about seeing the first tower on fire and hoping people had gotten out safely - we had no idea a plane had hit the first tower at this point, nor were we aware that it had been caused by terrorists. As we watched, a jet plane passed overhead, with a huge roar. We all knew immediately that it was way too low for a jet of that size to be flying, and the noise it made was horrible. Everyone's first thought was that we were witnessing two disasters simultaneously: a fire in one tower, and a jet crashing into the Hudson River. Everyone began to cry out, "It's too low, it's too low", and then we all realized that it was going to fly into the second tower. It was like a slow-motion horror that you could not imagine witnessing in a million years. In videos shown on CNN you've seen other angles of that second airplane striking the second tower and heard people screaming: that is what I remember first about that morning, except on our bus, everyone was screaming before that horrible fireball went up, because the airplane had passed over us and we saw where it was going before the impact.
Tuesday - a combination of many emotions: the smell of the burning, the dust clouds rolling up Broadway after the collapse, everybody screaming as the Towers collapsed (have you ever heard an entire city scream at the same moment?), and feeling the faint thunder through the soles of your feet when the Towers collapsed, fifty blocks south of me - a 2.4 earthquake rolling through New York City as those towers came down. Thinking for a few seconds that there would be a domino effect of collapsing buildings as a result. Learning that a plane had also crashed into the Pentagon and thinking this was some mass wave of suicide plane crashes ... terror at the sound of any airplane in the sky, expecting more planes to crash into buildings at any moment. It was obvious that New Yorkers had never needed to become familiar with the sounds of our own military ... for most of that morning we kept hearing the roar of planes and were all expecting to die in particularly gruesome fashions - not realizing until later that the sounds we were hearing were the roars of our own F-15's flying overhead, protecting the Eastern seaboard and New York City.
We had only one way to get out of the city, by ferry over the Hudson, as every other bridge and tunnel was closed. A large group of us walked 30 blocks to the ferry at around noon. Lines and lines and lines of people trying to get out of Manhattan, and through these lines, rescue workers were bringing shell-shocked and dusty, blood-streaked people from south Manhattan. They just threw us blindly across the Hudson by boatload - our ferry ended up in Weehauken, a shuttle bus took busloads of silent, shell-shocked people to Hoboken and the train station - during that silent ride, all eyes were fixated on the still burning towers across the River, and no one was speaking. One of our own home-grown criminals decided this was the perfect moment to call in a bomb scare to the now packed Hoboken Train station ... I finally got home nine hours later ... without a complaint, because I was alive and coming home, and so many people would never come home.
Phone lines were down, and I was finally able to contact my family from the train itself that evening - I finally was able to get a cell phone connection. My parents had two family members to worry about - me in New York, and my nephew, Jim Jr., in Washington, D.C., working as an electrician in a government building near the Pentagon. They couldn't find either one of us for most of Tuesday. (Jim Jr., was okay also). The effect of the stress of Tuesday on my mother hit her in the form of a stroke the following Friday night. My brother Jim Sr., and I, spent this past weekend with her in Newport, until she was transferred to a bigger hospital in Providence. She is slowly improving; we're considering her one of Bin Ladin's lesser known and still surviving victims.
September 21, 2001
NYC

  Noted events in her life were:

• Education: Pelham Memorial High School, Pelham NY 1972, University of Michigan 1976.

• Occupation: Administrative Manager.

• Religion: Presbyterian, Roman Catholic (conv), lapsed.

• Soc Sec Num: 129-46-3611.

• Baptism, 1955, Hamilton, Monroe County, Ohio, USA. Pleasant Run Church

• Residence, 1960-1972, Pelham Manor, Pelham, Westchester County, New York, USA. 137 Monterey Avenue

• Residence, 1972-1976, Ann Arbor, Washtenaw County, Michigan, USA. Various

• Residence, 1976-1979, Springfield, Sangamon County, Illinois, USA. Various

• Residence, 1980-1998, Yonkers, Westchester County, New York, USA. 498 Van Cortlandt Park Ave #4C

• Employed: Employed, 1988, D'arcy Masius Benton & Bowles. Became TeleVest, Mediavest

• Occupation: Administrative Manager, MediaVest, Dec 1988-Nov 2002, New York, New York County, New York, USA.

• Residence, 1999, Greenwood Lake, Orange County, New York, USA. 73 Deer Trail South

• Employed: Technical Writer, Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, 9 May 2003, Pearl River, Rockland County, New York, USA.

• Residence: 1201 Astor Street, Apt 5121, Dec 2004-2006, Ann Arbor, Washtenaw County, Michigan, USA.

• Graduation: The University of Michigan with a B.A. in History, 18 Dec 2005, Ann Arbor, Washtenaw County, Michigan, USA.

• Employed: Pfizer Global Research & Development, May 2006, Ann Arbor, Washtenaw County, Michigan, USA.

• Residence: 45 Grand Street, Apt #134, 1 Aug 2006-2007, Worcester, Worcester County, Massachusetts.