Career in Academia and Security
After graduating Oklahoma City University School of Law, Rescorla took a position with the University of South Carolina, where he collaborated on a text book on criminal justice. After deciding to leave academia, Rescorla took a position with Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company in Chicago. When the scandal of the Savings and Loan Crisis broke, Rescorla determined it was time to move on and accepted a position with Dean Witter Reynolds in New York City. When Dean Witter merged with Morgan Stanley in 1997, Rick Rescorla was named as director of security for Morgan Stanley, headquartered in the World Trade Center.
In 1994, Rescorla was diagnosed with prostate cancer and underwent surgery to remove his prostate. Initially, the prognosis was positive, but by 1998 the cancer had spread to his bone marrow.
After his divorce, Rescorla met Susan Greer in 1998 in the townhouse complex where he lived. Greer was an assistant to a dean at Fairleigh Dickinson University. When Rescorla's cancer went back into remission, he credited Greer, who had introduced him to a specialist in herbal medicine. They married on February 20, 1999 at Castillo de San Marcos, in St. Augustine, Florida; it reminded him of his childhood home on the coast of Cornwall.
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