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Raymond Albert "Ray" Kroc was an American businessman who took over the small-scale McDonald's Corporation franchise 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 $500 million... fortune during his lifetime. He was also the owner of the San Diego Padres baseball team starting in 1974. Kroc was born to parents of Czech origin in Oak Park, Chicago, Illinois, in 1902. He grew up and spent most of his life in Oak Park, Ill. During the First World War he trained to become an ambulance driver, though the war ended before he ever saw action. 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 worked at an Oak Park radio station. At one time, Ray worked for room and board at one of Ray Dambaugh's restaurants in the mid west to learn the restaurant business. Years later, he returned the favor by coming to Ray Dambaugh's funeral in Evans City, Pennsylvania to pay his respects.
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Walter Eugene Massey, is an educator, physicist and corporate executive, born in Hattiesburg, Mississippi on April 5, 1938. He was elected Chairman... of Bank of America Corporation on April 29, 2009, replacing Ken Lewis. Massey 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 PhD in Physics from Washington University in St. Louis in 1966. Massey also served as vice president for research and professor of physics at the University of Chicago, as director of the Argonne National Laboratory, dean of the College and professor of physics at Brown University, and as assistant professor of physics at the University of Illinois. He was the director of the National Science Foundation from 1991 to 1993, was the ninth president of Morehouse College from 1995 to 2007, and formerly the Senior Provost of the University of California System. Massey serves or has served as a board member to several American corporations, including Bank of America, BP Oil, Motorola, and McDonalds.
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