September 2009
Up Close and Personal Adalis Arroyo
Job Title
Group Account Director
How long at LNC?
15 years
My Favorite
- Pizza Toppings:
- Cheese, cheese, cheese
- Fast Food Chains:
- none
- Book:
- The Prophet
- Movie:
- none
- TV Show:
- Little House on the Prairie
- Favorite part of your job:
- The challenging, evolving change of it all...I don’t get bored
- Hometown:
- Wish I knew so that when I want "to go home" I could. I'm from an Army family, born and raised on different military bases around the world, so I'm not from anywhere in particular, although I have great fondness for Puerto Rico, where my parents are from
- Funniest/weirdest LNC story (did anything funny ever happen to you while working here? in your department?)...
- The mouse chase, Howard's closet office, the stripper with scars and boots, everyone taking an assigned turn in reception during lunch and moving Rolando's whole office into the reception area in our former building as a joke
- If I won the lottery, the first thing I would buy:
- A very large building to house and care for homeless vets
- The one food I would eat for the rest of my life would be:
- Mangoes
- If you were stranded on a desert island, and you had to take three LNCers with you, who would they be and why?
- Javier, for entertainment. Marlo, to keep us moving. Miguel Serrano, for lively discussions
- My first job:
- Babysitting – hated it!
- If you had to perform in a talent show, what would be your talent?
- Telling "I remember" tales
- People would be surprised to know that I ...
- Learned Spanish in college, tried out for a Broadway musical, tried out for Sesame Street, and was convinced that I was an Indian Princess until the age of 6
- When I grew up I wanted to ...
- Live among books, which I loved... so probably a librarian would have been a good choice
- Biggest pet peeve:
- Whining
- Favorite thing to do in spare time:
- Read
- Last vacation destination:
- Fort Bragg, North Carolina, to visit my son at his Army base
- My Favorite Quote:
- Put it into perspective. We are not curing cancer.
- Childhood Phobias
- Taphophobia – the fear of being buried alive... ever since I saw a movie where that happened
- Ultimate dream vacation
- Greece and Germany
- Three people alive or dead I would invite to dinner:
- James Michener; Kahlil Gibran; Frank Herber, author of Dune
- If I were an animal I would be ...
- A cat
