Anne Chelius This is Me

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   Published on: 2/3/2002   Last Visited: 2/3/2002

   Late last fall, Chelius had to close her business, which was in lower Manhattan and supplied temporary employees to many companies in the World Trade Center. At the same time, her husband, a consultant for J.P. Morgan Chase, also in lower Manhattan, lost his job when the project on which he had been working was moved to Tampa.
   
   ``We were almost at the end,'' Chelius said of the more than 10 years in which at least one, and sometimes two, of her children attended college. ``I can see the finish line. Now I feel like I can't make it to the finish line.''
   
   On Mercer's recommendation, Chelius, 57, and her husband, 60, borrowed $10,000 from AMS through a federal program available only to parents of college students, at an interest rate of less than 7 percent. But that has still left them $2,300 short, and they are considering using credit cards to make up the difference.
   
   While AMS has logged nearly 1,000 phone calls from families directly or indirectly affected by Sept. 11, the company has detected problems throughout the economy.