My life has never followed one straight line. These are some of the chapters,
passions, professions, and challenges that have shaped it.
From couture training in Paris to building the Roger Kuper label and a major American fashion business.
A second professional life in computers, systems analysis, software, and Unicon Systems.
Twenty-seven years at New York University, teaching entrepreneurship and philosophy and later becoming Professor Emeritus.
From Chocolate to Philosopher, In Conversations with the Great Philosophers, ON — Reflections, and my continuing writing on Substack.
Years in Buenos Aires as a dancer, performer, and teacher, bringing another kind of conversation into my life.
Black belt in karate.
Represented the United States in international and world bridge competition.
Competitive skiing and medals, including gold medals at Tignes and Val d’Isère.
At nine, selected from 1,500 applicants as one of 15 recipients of a scholarship to the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris.
Paris Junior Chess Championship at age eleven.
Worked at more than 34 Club Med villages over roughly three decades, teaching and participating in numerous activities.
Hockey, racing, ice dancing, and freestyle skating.
Collector of antique cameras and photographs and three-term president of the American Photographic Historical Society.
Arrived in the United States at seventeen with $12, two old suits, and no English—and began again.
