A L L I N T H E FA M I LY • 69 empowered to do it. It was very clear to her what needed to be done. No one was willing to do it. Sensing her discouragement, I asked her if she wanted to come work with me. Six months later she called and said, “Dad, did you really mean what you said about joining the business?” And I answered of course. She hung up her phone and immediately gave her notice to the bank. On her last official day at the bank, I called her to say we were excited that she was joining us. She abruptly answered, “Thanks Dad, but I can’t talk to you right now because we are being robbed.” I was thrilled to have Betsy joining the firm, but I was honestly a bit worried. Not about Betsy’s ability to do the job. She is fiercely bright and intuitive about people and way overqualified to be managing a bank. It was more about the industry. At the time, and unfortunately still today, the confectionery business is a man’s business. Betsy was going to have to work hard to win over the people who we represented and our customers too. It didn’t take her long to figure out the sales managers and buyers…and her old man too. Betsy and her husband, David Harris.