Today's Hero Blog

My first boss, Stacey Duncan, helped shape my life when I was just a teenager, and he will always be a hero to me.
I came from a very dysfunctional family; growing up we lived on food stamps and whatever my parents didn’t drink up from our welfare checks. Both of my sisters got pregnant by [...]

A man named Scott Hazlett saved my life, and though I only had one conversation with him, I have carried around his business card for close to thirty years.
During my younger years I was a hard drinking, hard fighting, woman chasing fool, and to me nothing was more fun than getting paid on Friday night [...]

Andy Pasquale and I were best friends in high school, and when we graduated I talked him into joining the Army under the buddy plan, which assured us we’d be trained and stationed together. We were trained as truck drivers, then the Army decided that they needed me in Germany, and Andy got sent to [...]

My secretary, Joyce Neevers, has been not only an outstanding employee, but also a wonderful friend over the years. I bless the day I hired her.
Joyce came to our company as we were transitioning into computer technology, and she embraced the opportunity to learn. She stayed after hours, on her own time, and studied the [...]

I worked on the same assembly line with Don Duncan for over twenty five years and never knew just what a truly great person he is until after we both retired. He was just one more guy at Ford putting in his time.
When I retired, the first order of business was to get out of [...]

In high school I was a total jerk. I had made some very bad choices in my life at an early age, and by my sophomore year I was abusing alcohol and drugs. The only reason I went to school at all was because it was better than sitting at home listening to my parents [...]