Youth and travel, Paris, North Africa; family life; volunteer work with Council of Jewish women, Brooklyn House of Detention, Rikers Island; founding of Rikers Review; Fresh Start Program; public consciousness about prisons in mid-sixties; David Margolis, career of, contributions to Ed. I. Koch mayoral campaign of 1977; personal relationship, travel with Koch; Commissioner of Corrections selector, 1978; Board of Corrections; New York City Commission for Protocol, Vice Chairman, Chairman 1983-1990; National Protocol Directory, 1987; scandals, Koch administration.