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Raymond Albert "Ray" Kroc was an American businessman who joined McDonald's in 1954 and built it into the most successful fast food operation in the world. Kroc was included in Time 100: The Most Important People of the Century, and amassed a fortune during his lifetime. He owned the San Diego... Padres baseball team from 1974. Kroc was born to parents of Czech origin in Oak Park, near Chicago, on October 5, 1902. His father originated from the village Břasy near Plzeň, Bohemia . He grew up and spent most of his life in Oak Park, Illinois. During the First World War he lied about his age and became a Red Cross ambulance driver at 15. During the war, Kroc served in the same regiment as Walt Disney. Between the end of the war and the early 1950s he tried his hand at a number of trades including paper cup salesman, pianist, jazz musician, band member and radio DJ at Oak Park radio station WGES. At one time, Ray worked for room and board at one of Ray Dambaugh's restaurants in the midwest to learn the restaurant business.
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Walter Eugene Massey is an educator, physicist, and business executive. He is the current President of The School of the Art Institute of Chicago... and the former Chairman of Bank of America, replacing Ken Lewis on April 29, 2009. He is also the former President of Morehouse College and the former Director of the National Science Foundation. Massey was born in Hattiesburg, Mississippi in 1938 and graduated from Morehouse College in 1958 with a BS degree in Mathematics and Physics, and also became a member of the Psi chapter of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity. Massey went on to receive his Ph.D. in Physics from Washington University in St. Louis in 1966. Massey formerly served as Vice President for Research and Professor of Physics at the University of Chicago, Director of the Argonne National Laboratory, Dean of the College and Professor of Physics at Brown University, and Assistant Professor of Physics at the University of Illinois. He was also the Director of the National Science Foundation from 1991 to 1993, was the 9th President of Morehouse College from 1995 to 2007, and was the Senior Provost of the University of California System.
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