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Article: LEONARD L. SANDERS, AT 76; LED BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- December 30, 2002
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Leonard L. Sanders - former president of the Better Business
Bureaus serving Eastern Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, and
Vermont - died Wednesday of liver cancer at his son's house in
Marlborough. He was 76.
Born in Philadelphia, Mr. Sanders was raised in an orphanage. In
1942, he entered the US Army Air Corps, where he served as a pilot
during World War II. In 1946, he was honorably discharged after
surviving a plane crash in which the rest of the crew was killed.
Following the war, he attended and graduated from the University
of Miami.
In 1958 he began his career at the Better Business Bureau as a
salesman in the metropolitan New York region. Eventually he was
promoted to assistant ...