Fisher’s first husband Dick Fisher was a school mate of Gitter’s at Harvard Business School in the early 1960s. Dick Fisher later went on to become chairman of Morgan Stanley, director of the New York Stock Exchange, and a prominent board member for several key institutions, including Bard College — the Frank Gehry-designed Fisher Center is named in his honor. Over the years, she got to know Dean Gitter as a golfing partner…and then, following her divorce, took over her ex-husband’s interests as a financial backer of Gitter’s sprawling complex along the Esopus Creek between Phoenicia and Boiceville. In addition to her work in the Catskills, Fisher says in an aside, she’s head of the board of directors and a key benefactor for Simon’s Rock outside of Great Barrington, one of the nation’s leading young college/high school hybrids, as well as a longstanding board member at Bard College, along with several environmental organizations.
| Types | Person, Business Person |
| Aliases | Emily Hargroves Fisher |