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Article: Tommy Spaulding: up with people CEO helped revive the nonprofit's global brand.(EXECUTIVE edge)(Up with People)
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- March 1, 2008
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Tommy Spaulding still bristles when he thinks about his high school counselor in Suffren, N.Y., who advised him to forget about college and head to trade school.
The son of two school teachers, Spaulding was dyslexic, in the bottom 5 percent of his class and attended summer school each year--yet he would go on to graduate from East Carolina University and earn master's degrees in business and nonprofit management.
While others were paying off their student loans, Spaulding had $25,000 in the bank, having operated a string of small businesses, including a car wash and T-shirt business while working his way through college.
"When you grow up with ...