Even if you dont care one whit about the future of newspapers, you may find interesting this profile of Glen Taylor, who is about to buy the Minneapolis Star-Tribune. Teachers urged him to give up farming for math and physics classes at what was then Mankato State University. Taylor took their advice and graduated with a math degree in 1962. He planned to become a teacher like his big brother, Roger. “We were very close,” Taylor said. “I always wanted to do what he could do.” Working 40 hours a week in college as a part-timer at Bill Carlson’s Wedding Service printing business in Mankato, Taylor used the $1 an hour he earned to augment his $300 college scholarship. I’d go to the bank and cash my check and get all $1 bills and come home and do the budget, he said. That meant depositing the bills in envelopes for rent, food, clothing, etc. If he went over budget on food, he’d write a note that he borrowed it from the rent envelope. “I didn’t have Post-it notes then, he said, flashing his wry humor. Taylor Corp. is now among the leading printers of customized Post-it notes.
Posted on: Sun, 29 Jun 2014 12:18:30 +0000
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