It's why their sister, Gina, reached, too.” Marianne and Tom knew this, and it's why they reached. Reflecting on Gina Raimondo: What makes commerce nominee Raimondo tick?Īs I wrote of Josephine that long-ago day: “She, too, measured success by whether her children would go further than she. "He always stressed education," said Marianne. I asked Marianne, Gina’s sister, why their dad worked so hard. And the Raimondo kids, even back then, were smart enough to see it.
It’s the kind of sacrifice that mothers of many generations make in anonymity. Rubber, but when I visited, she had pushed off such aspirations to focus on her kids, choosing home over career. Josephine, who graduated from Bryant, would later become an executive secretary at U.S. I still have a vague memory of Josephine that day, there in the home, hearth and kitchen, clearly, to switch up a phrase, a fish in water. His own dad had worked similar long hours at his Atwells Avenue butcher shop. I had to meet them at 7 a.m., because Gina’s dad was too busy all day selling metals to jewelry firms, and later teaching night classes. After graduating Harvard, she had been chosen as a Rhodes Scholar.īut my focus was more on what that said about her working-class family. Gina, then 21, had just achieved a thing worth noting. It’s more than 30 years ago, December of 1992, and I’ve made my way to the home of Joseph and Josephine Raimondo in Greenville to write a story a bit like this one, about America’s promise. The obituary marking Josephine’s passing is taking me back to that day. I once saw that kitchen myself before Gina was the Gina we’ve come to know. Looking back: A policy wonk, yes, but there's more to the 'Gov'
In the kitchen of course, which, being in an Italo-American household, was always the center of things. I’ve done a few profiles of Gina, and when I asked her about outside pursuits, there were some, like biking, but the main one, she said, was cooking family dinners on Sundays with her mom, Josephine. She’s even been mentioned on the long list of potential presidential candidates. Gina was the state’s treasurer, governor and is now the U.S. Another, Marianne, earned a Ph.D and is today dean of the business school at Rhode Island College.įinally, there is her other daughter, Gina, who doesn’t have the doctor title in front of her name like her siblings, but she’s done OK nevertheless. One of her three children, Thomas, became a doctor, and is now a pulmonologist in Warwick. Her full name was Josephine Piro Raimondo.
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