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Thanks. Really. (Part 2)

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I’ve written about my next mentor often.  (Here’s but one example– with another great story about Cary.)  He was but one half of the management team that took a chance to hire me.  A soon-to-be 14 y old kid.  And, let me basically take over their baby.  (As you can see, Cary became a mentor about the time I was losing touch with Ms. Katzman.  I’d been really lucky to have a continuous mentor relationship for nigh 16 years, by the time this one ends.)

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Three Years to Make a Difference

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It was May when I got to meet (by reputation) one of the scariest teachers of my school.   I had just about finished my 6th grade year with Ms. Kessler.  One of the teachers who tried to push me just a little harder.  She got me to write my first poem.  (I had written an essay, but she showed me that it was written in perfect iambic pentameter.) And, a term paper about the USSR (83 pages written in very tiny letters)…And, now I was “requested” to appear in Miss Katzman’s office after lunch.

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Manager Material?

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Most of you know I went to a small engineering school for my undergraduate degree.  The goal of Brooklyn Poly was to graduate the best practical engineers anyone could find- anywhere.  And, by and large, they did that job superbly.  (Of course, some of those who didn’t finish the programs may not feel this to be the case, but, then again, they didn’t finish…)

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