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Sunday, March 16, 2003 |
 Great mentors: if my life can be said to be successful (and believe me, considering my humble origins, it has been), a large amount of credit goes to the mentors who helped me find my way. One guy who had a profound effect on the course of my life was Bill Danforth, a teacher, coach and admissions officer at Western Reserve Academy, a private school in Hudson, Ohio.Bill helped me get in, and get the scholarship I needed to go there. For the only son of a strapped, single working woman from a hardscrabble neighborhood near Erie, PA, it was a huge opportunity. It occurs to me that great mentors have an enormous legacy: Bill touched hundreds, if not thousands of lives during his career. each of those people, in turn, touched many more.
Sadly, Bill passed away last year, after a long and distinguished career of helping to launch young people into meaningful, productive lives. I'm helping to raise a scholarship fund in his name: so I've published a Web site with tributes, photos and details of how people can join with me to fund the William Danforth Memorial Scholarship. Hoping to make it possible for other kids to be afforded the opportunity that was offered to me... |
Updated 4/16/04; 12:26:47 PM
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Chris Gulker'sUpdated 4/16/04; 12:26:47 PM
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