Francisco Gali has never waited for opportunity to knock. Instead, he has aggressively pursued new challenges throughout his life and career. At age 13, he left...
It’s lucky that Amy Gleklen’s father was a doctor. He had taught her the Heimlich Maneuver when she was young, and the lesson stuck. One sunny day years later, ...
IEven when he wound up in the hospital after a moped accident, sixteen-year-old Scott Goss wasn’t ready to admit he was in a downward spiral. It was only a coup...
Noe Landini’s father crossed the Atlantic Ocean hundreds of times as a waiter with the Italian Line, working aboard ships that transported extravagantly-dressed...
IIn 1989, when Jack Maier landed at Drexel Burnham Lambert, a major investment banking firm on Wall Street, he thought he had found his dream job. But a year la...
Blinded by a chemical explosion and lying in an ICU with 300 stitches in his three-year-old body, Michael May’s future looked dark— figuratively and literally. ...
From the earliest days of his childhood, Greg McDonough grew up believing in the power of a positive attitude. His older brother, born handicapped and partially...
Michael Mercurio obtained a master’s degree in international affairs because he wanted to impact the world around him and help calm the chaos on the internation...
Sitting in their small apartment across from his mother and stepfather, thirteen-year-old Clyde Northrop knew his life was about to change—though he couldn’t ha...
Standing at the base of a telegraph pole that seemed to be a hundred feet tall, Dawn Peters saw more than the very top rising high above her, and the trapeze to...
Even as a little girl growing up in Philadelphia, Kathy Poorbaugh was never afraid to jump in and take charge. In Girl Scouts, she was always organizing things ...
Sherri Renée Romm has always had a passion for art. To this day, she spends four mornings a week in her studio, paintbrush in hand as she careens over the canva...
Before 2000, Lee Self was a VP with Bell Atlantic, now Verizon. Her workload was intense, and her schedule was exhausting; she was constantly hopping between Ne...
When Mark Silverman arrived in DC on September 1, 1989, he was a 130-pound vagabond battling addiction and homelessness. He had driven across the country with n...
“As long as I’m the Governor, you'll never play in Memorial Stadium," said William Donald Schaeffer, respectfully yet firmly. Most people would have left it at ...
