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...good job as an engineer at Eastman Kodak Corporation, where lifetime employment was the norm. He had recently graduated from Union College and had just married...
...first in his family to go to college, Gilmartin went on to work for Eastman Kodak for two years before heeding the fateful advice of a friend who had been accepted to HBS on a full-tuition fellowship...
...route. Originally from just outside Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, he developed a love and talent for jazz early in life, leaving high school after his junior year to pursue music as a career. At the bidding of a professor of music he had met at a summer jazz program at the Eastman School of Music, he was granted--without a high school diploma--a full scholarship to study for a performance degree in double-bass at Louisiana State University (LSU). His plan was to study music professionally and to teach jazz at the university level...
...that didn't mean that the public sessions and backstage consultations were entirely serene and bromidic. All the Governors, plus the 49 invited executives from some of the largest U.S. companies (IBM, AT&T, Eastman Kodak), agreed that public education is broken and woefully in need of fixing. "We have students," said Wisconsin Governor Tommy Thompson, co-chair of the conference, "graduating from high school with diplomas that they can't even read, who can't write a coherent sentence or do basic math." The other co-chair, IBM chief executive Louis V. Gerstner Jr., whose critical remarks on education...
Novelty can be thought of as a kind of long-haired half sibling to ragtime. Tony Caramia, associate professor of piano at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, and one of the country's leading experts in ragtime and novelty piano, explains that "unlike the ragtime musicians, who were young, itinerant blacks, the novelty folks were primarily classically trained. These influences showed up in the more advanced harmonies in their music. It still sounds like ragtime, and the left hand is boom, chunk, boom, chunk, but they leave no syncopated stone unturned...