Terence D. Gazzani, Bentley ’00

Brother Gazzani, 24, is a 2000 graduate from Bentley College. Upon graduation, he landed his first job on the repo desk at Cantor Fitzgerald. He worked on the 105th floor on the World Trade Center’s North Tower.

A First Job and a Full Life

Terence Gazzani was just starting out.

The 24-year-old Brooklyn man graduated last year from Bentley College in Waltham, Mass., and had gotten his first job on one of the bond desks at Cantor Fitzgerald Securities in Manhattan.

Gazzani, who worked on the 105th floor on the World Trade Center’s North Tower, has not been heard from since the Sept. 11 terrorist attack. His family is still holding out hope of a miracle.

“One of his good friends called him at work after the plane hit,” said Gazzani’s cousin, Tracy Rodgers, of Baldwin.

“He said: ‘I’m being evacuated. Tell my Mom and Dad I love them, and I’m coming home,'” Rodgers said.

Gazzani’s parents, Tracy and Marty Gazzani, and his extended family and friends gathered last week for a private candlelight vigil on their block, Rodgers said.

Gazzani was a guy who loved to relax and enjoy life, Rodgers said.

He shared a house with friends in Southampton this summer, and had a second job as a bouncer at the popular Hamptons night spot the Boardy Barn.

“He loved to go into the city and party and have a good time,” Rodgers said.

Gazzani is a big Mets fan – so much so that his friends called him “Mookie,” after shortstop Mookie Wilson.

Rodgers said he was never more thrilled than when he got to see his team win the World Series in 1986.

Rodgers said that whenever Gazzani was given the choice between joining in the action or sitting on the sidelines, he always jumped right in.

“He lived such a full life,” his cousin said. “And thank God.”

— Ann Givens (Newsday)

Copyright 2002 Newsday

Terence Gazzani: He Lit Up a Room

At the end of the week’s bond trading at Cantor Fitzgerald, Terence Gazzani geared up for a weekend that was equally demanding but a lot more fun. He and a group of friends shared a beach house in Hampton Bays, where he worked as a bouncer at Boardy Barn, a popular Hamptons nightclub.

“This summer was going to be the last,” said Tracy Gazzani, his mother. “He started there in college, but bouncing and working at Cantor Fitzgerald was a little bit too much. And he still had to go out.”

In the city, where he lived with his parents in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, Mr. Gazzani, 24, went to the gym after work or to restaurants and nightclubs with friends. His style was friendly and laid back. “All his cousins wanted to be as cool as he was,” Mrs. Gazzani said.

“He lit up a room,” she added. “I keep waiting to hear him say: `Ma, could you have this shirt ready for me? I’m going out.’ ”

October 2, 2001 New York Times

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