WBJ Hall of Fame: Sawyer is driven by love

Written By Philip Sawyer

Article by Monica Benevides of the Worcester Business Journal (WBJ)

They include, in no particular order, climbing over the gate at the U.S. embassy in Saigon in 1975, from which her family was evacuated just hours after the city fell; meeting her husband and having their children; helping to start People Express Airlines in the 1980s; and matriculating at Massachusetts Institute of Technology at the age of 65, on a dare.

And finally, the fifth decision: accepting the position of executive director of the Southeast Asian Coalition of Central Massachusetts…

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