W. Lawrence Lipton

William Lawrence Lipton (born October 8, 1944) is an American writer, Educator, New York City Real Estate Broker/manager.
Early Years
Birth and adoption
Born William Lawrence Schreck Jr, in Jamacia, New York, Lipton was the son of Agnes Marie Ryan and William L Schreck. When, at the end of World War II, his father, an member of US Air Corps, failed to return from the European Theater, Lipton was adopted by Florence (née Simon) and Bernard Lipton (born, Bernhard Lipschitz) - a partner in the New York Law firm of Wohl, Lipton & Loewe.
Education
Initially Lipton was a below average student. It wasn’t until 1954, when New York City administered a city wide IQ test and researchers - correlating school performance with IQ scores - observed a significant disparity with one of the top thirty scorers; this led to Lipton being retested. Subsequent tests revealed him to be "Mirror Reader" (a severe form of Dyslexia) - effectively incapable of normal reading, but able to read over 200 wpm when page was reflected (upside-down and backward) in a mirror. Court & NYC Department of Education documents indicate Lipton may have been the primary case study for the 1955 best seller, ; it is clear his case was the catalyst for what is now known as Special Education. He went on to pass the entrance exam for, and attend, Brooklyn Technical High School. Upon graduation he was awarded a Regents Scholarship.
Selecting to major in Tech's Electrical Technical program, Lipton designed breadboard logic circuits and computer programming circuitry. A fellow Tech Knight combined a buzzer, rectifier and transformer with a capacitor to create (probably) the first rudimentary TASER. Schoolmates included several Chapin Brothers -- one assembly day, Harry Chapin beguiled the school with a rendition of "'A' Train" which described an experience well know to those attending a commuter school.
Lipton spent a year in Boston -- at North Eastern University where he studied engineering and joined -- he returned New York for a year at RCA Institute; then went on to earn a New York University degree in Education, and degrees in Real Estate & Accounting from Pace University, where he was a “Saul Hertz scholar for accounting studies.”
Concurrent with his real estate activities (detailed below), for one year, in 1968, after the death of his first wife, Lipton worked for the NYC Board of Education as an above quota teacher - teaching remedial reading at the junior high level.
In 1981, Lipton relocated to his retirement home in Maine, where he became Accounting Specialist for Husson College; later an Assistant Professor of Business Studies with the University of Maine at Machias.
Career
Art & Photography
At 16, Lipton’s interest in photography saw create Guebres Studios, DBA; while continuing his education, and engaging in several other ventures, he continued his involvement in commercial and fashion photography for the next ten years.
At 17, while an engineering student at Northeastern University, Lipton discovered he could make a decent income as a portrait artist - working in oil on canvas from photographs. The following year he returned to NYC where he became involved in the Greenwich Village Underground movie scene. In 1964, artists George Peters, Kenneth Anger, and Al Leslie brought Lipton into a group - meeting at the Cedar Tavern - which was organizing a forum for independent filmmakers which soon became at . Lipton, who appeared in numerous underground films, was assigned membership card number one in a membership list which included underground luminaries such as the Kuchar Brothers (twins George & Mike) and Andy Warhol
In 1963/5, Lipton combined his interest in Chess with work, joining as a manager of The Queen's Pawn Chess Emporium. While there he, he sketched players, made coffee and had the opportunity to play against Chess Master Bobby Fischer and Lisa's partner, .
In 1972, Lipton joined actors Ray Atherton and Steve deFluiter to incorporate Jubilee Gallery and negotiated its Brooklyn Heights (Henry St) lease, where deFluiter continues to oversee the business.
Real Estate
At 18, Lipton obtained his Real Estate Salesman’s license under Adams & Company, at 80 Broad St, Manhattan, where he relocated tenants being displaced for the proposed World Trade Center. One day, Lipton was stopped on the street by Emanuel Turk - then the predominant apartment broker in the East Village - and offered a job leasing apartments. That association continued until 1968 when Lipton obtained his broker’s license and formed his own commercial leasing firm, Lawrence Enterprises. Operations were delayed when, Norman F. Levy, president/chairman of Cross & Brown Company asked to Lipton to join his brokerage department. When Lipton said he wanted management, Levy offered him a position in the in their newly formed construction department; later Lipton was also given several troubled Penn Central properties to manage. Lipton became the only management employee permitted to retain and display his brokers license.

A few years later, the owner of The Park Management, Inc - a real estate partner of Levy - offered Lipton a generous salary and exchange of services agreement which provided Lipton with offices in exchange for over seeing renovation and management of 44 Court Street, Brooklyn. As the brokerage business grew, Lipton formed the 30 salesperson, Be Our Neighbor Real Estate, INC. In 1975, Lipton was made director of The Park Management Inc with mid-Manhattan offices at 10 East 40th Street - three years later, he accepted a temporary position as a property manager for Vorelco (the real estate subsidiary of Volkswagen of America). After correcting their computerization problems, Lipton turned to writing.
Political
As a child (1953), Lipton was introduced to politics by his father’s partner, Joseph S. Wohl - who was one of golfing partners - when, providing he could think of an informed question to ask the president, he received an open invitation to visit Camp David and the White House. In hindsight, this was apparently an attempt at motivating reading prior to diagnosis of his dyslexia (see education) .
Lipton developed a fringe relationship with the New York City political machine, but it wasn’t until he moved to Maine that he became fully active. He was involved in first, and successful, Senate run; in 1994 received a call from (then State Senator) John Baldacci - who was contemplating a Congressional run (for the seat then held by Senator Olympia Snowe) and was interested in Lipton’s input, and specifics behind a feature article Lipton had done for The Bangor Daily News. A Democrat, Lipton was Chairman of his Town Committee, 1988-97; twice elected Chairman of the Washington County Democratic Committee; a seven time delegate to the Maine State Democratic Convention - three times as member of the State Democratic Credentials Committee.
Computers & Internet
in 1957, Brooklyn Tech was an all male public commuter high school - today in might be considered a Magnet school -- where computers were composed of basic vacuum tube and transistor logic circuits. At Tech, Lipton was taught basic circuit design and breadboard programming utilizing hard wire connections. At Pace College (now Pace University), the state-of-the-art was punch card programming on an IBM 360; he took programming as a minor, utilizing after hours access to computer time to design programs for his daytime work as real estate property manager. By 1972, these programs - many of which can now be accomplished using commercial database or spreadsheet software - existed in Assembly, COBOL, RPG2 and a few speciality programming languages. By 1978 several of the programs were published and in operation at Cushman-Wakefield, Helmsley-Spear, Cross&Brown and, of course, The Park Management INC. In that same year, Volkswagon brought him in to oversee computerization of its real estate division, Vorelco -- where, overseeing programmers from Arthur D Little (utilizing BASIC and DIBOL), while managing their national property portfolio. In 1980, When Ronald Reagan instituted a broad based cancellation of Grant monies, plans for Lipton to head a proposed computerization program in the University of Maine Machias Department of Business Studies came to an end.
Lipton was among the early AOL subscribers in Maine; as a power user, due long distance Dail-up charges, was spending roughly $600 to connect to the service - this changed as AOL introduced toll free access and today he enjoys free high speed wireless provided through an exchange of services agreement with AXIOM Communications.
Utilizing his birth name at AOL - relying on his adoption papers and the Baby Book his birth mother had created - Lipton had begun an aggressive search for his ancestry. By 1994, BHI, the predicessor to GeoCities had been founded, and soon Lipton was employing HTML design to create The Unknown Genealogy Pages. With the notoriety which accompanied the arrest of OJ Simpson for the murder of his ex-wife, Nicole, Lipton’s background being raised in a Law Office, and his inherent need for logical conclusions, kicked in - accordingly, he added another page to his GeoCities (CYBERCITY) activities ... the highly controversial OJ Simpson Pages in which he went against popular belief and declared OJ Simpson innocent. Among the points raised were many which later appeared in books about the trial and verdict; most notable was the question later asked, by unanswerable, by Chris Darden - “Where was that damned Bronco?”
After the jury verdict agreed with him - utilizing available transcripts augmented as books by prosecutors Marcia Clark and Chris Darden became available - he created a new and even more controversial page entitled, “The Framing of OJ Simpson.” An error at GeoCities cause him to mirror the pages, in modified expanded form, at "Fortune City." In 1998, with all the available data disclosed and analyzed without challenge to either the logic or factual accuracy, “William Schreck” discontinued work on the pages. This was (doubly) reported on the net with these remarks:
GHOST SITES #37
by Steve Baldwin
Rogers Cadenhead, whose perpetual watch for e-cruelty occasionally nets
him a close encounter with a Ghost Site, reports the following:
"After attracting more than seven million hits, William Schreck has let
his "Framing of O.J. Simpson" site grow as cold as O.J.'s manhunt for
the (wink, wink) real killer of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman.

Exactly how controversial were the Simpson pages? At their peak, the pages may represented a considerable proportion of the daily traffic to their community. As noted, Chris Darden repeated the "Where was the Bronco" query first put forward on "Schreck's" pages; subsequently Television & New Media published "(De)Construction of Crime Knowledge", which featured quotes and analysis from "Schreck's" pages;subsequent hardbound books also include references to "Schreck's" pages -- either by name or footnoted URL; in 1996, Garry Trudeau borrowed the page title for an artile in Time Magazine entitled: THE FRAMING OF O.J. SIMPSON, THE VIEW FROM NEXT SUMMER: A CONSPIRACY UNRAVELS
Author & Journalist
Director of Digital Medea & Publications, ‘Maxx Robinson imprint, Cardinal Books’, 2000-2004.
Columnist ‘Machias Valley News Observer’, 17 November 2004-2007; thereafter ongoing contributor.
Contributing Journalist: Bangor Daily News, Downeast Coastal Press, Machias Valley News Observer
List of Creative Works
* The Meeting, 1965 (film)
* Real Estate Analyst, 1972 (computer program)
* Path of the Serpent, 1979 (non-fiction)
* Prophecy Notebook, 1980 (non-fiction)
* Chinese Sabbatical, 1986 (fiction)
* Chopped Liver, 1987 (fiction - republished as an e-book)
* The Market Analyst, 1987 (computer program)
Personal life
His 1966 marriage to June Ann Schilowsky - which ended with her 1968 death from - produced one son, Seth Alexander ((Seth attended with actress Mia Sara went on to Trinity College (class of '89) and The Columbus School of Law (Class of '95), passed the New York State Bar Exam.) who disappeared November 1995.
Lipton’s second relationship, with Sachiko Yoshida, ended amicably, with a divergence of residential preferences, in 1981 - it produced a daughter, Samantha Bryl (Elisabeth Morrow School, Tenafly High School, , Music Industry and Finance). The third relationship, with Marlyn Ranario Clmafranca - which produced four children Beryl C.D. (Machias Memorial H.S. Salutatorian, , Arts Chair & staff writer for the Harvard Crimson), Edom Arthur (Machias Memorial H.S. Valedictorian, ), Fayranne Grace, Tiara Bylin - was acrimoniously finalized by a 2001 divorce decree after she rejected an offer of a house and anything the respective attorneys deemed legal.

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