PART 5 – DADDY

Joel Fride was an attractive man of 52. His wife passed away when Beth was 2. Beth was his only child and he adored her. He knew when Carolyn passed away there were choices to be made with his daughter. It would be easy to spoil her and give her whatever she asked for. Joel, though, had worked hard to build his business. He wanted to instill his ethics in his daughter. Beth grew up a privileged child in that she had a grand home, private school, new car at 16 and trips abroad every summer. Joel made each of her summer trips something educational, as well as fun. During a trip to Melbourne when she was 12, he took her to the Outback so she could see how the aborigines lived. A private cruise to the Caribbean included a stop in Haiti. Joel wanted his daughter to see that there were many less fortunate in this world. He hoped her exposure to them would lead her to continue his annual donations to various charities world wide.

When most of Beth’s friends started college, she asked for a year abroad. She didn’t want to sight see. Beth wanted to visit the poor sections of the world and see how she could become directly involved in helping them.