Eve Thompson, the globe-trotting daughter of former Red Bank Councilwoman Florence ‘Betti’ Thompson and Stafford Thompson, was the bride in the featured ‘Vows’ column in yesterday’s New York Times.
South Africa, Jordan, Guinea-Bissau the Princeton and Georgetown graduate “thrived in a series of high-powered jobs, for nongovernmental agencies, promoting education and helping countries develop and manage public policy,” the Times reported. But at age 47, she’d never married, and the idea of getting hitched didn’t seem all that important to her.
From the article:
“Marriage was never anything we talked about,” said her friend Joyce Justus, who was representing the Clinton White House when she met Ms. Thompson a decade ago in South Africa. “Eve was always very busy, and interested in doing something important in the world.”
But Thompson’s status changed late last month when she married Richard Thompson, a Fulbright scholar who’d spent most of his childhood in the Congo, in North Miami Beach.
The pair had met in South Africa a decade ago, and after his second marriage fell apart, he told the Times, he began to fall in love with her. The story recounts a storm-tossed tete-a-tete in Newark and “whirlwind encounters in 14 countries.”
From the article:
Several guests said that they had come halfway around the world to witness the wedding of Ms. Thompson, who had an explanation for why she finally said yes.
“When he looks into my eyes,” she said, ”there is adoration there that makes me feel wonderful about me. Thats what you should really look for in someone. Because if you feel wonderful about yourself, you can do things.”
