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...trustee of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and an expert on remedial training: "My only concern is that so few people can afford this type of program." Yet there has been no shortage of applicants to the centers ever since Reading Game Founder and President Kenneth Martyn opened his first one in Huntington Beach 16 years ago. Martyn, a former professor of special education at California State University at Los Angeles, became intrigued by the possibility of tutorial centers after doing a study in the '60s on California's public schools...
Citing a need for quality control, Martyn has only seven Reading Game centers under franchise. "It's not like selling hamburgers," he says. His competition, by contrast, has gone predominantly into franchises, and all three companies are offering or moving into subjects such as writing, speed writing and algebra. The cost of setting up a franchise with Sylvan or Huntington is around $50,000 to $100,000, depending on size. The typical licensee is a businessman; Huntington Founder Ray Huntington was a business analyst for AT&T. Sylvan's president Berry Fowler, however, was a junior high art teacher until...
...side had to contend with the absence of coach and scrum half Martyn Kingston, fly half Geoff Gage and wing forward Dave Banks...
...Martyn Brown Shawnigan Lake...
...friend Marco (Greg Martyn) embodies a more generic rags-to-riches cliche. A strapping Italian hunk, he becomes the rich actress's kept man, uses her money to start himself in business, then (after eluding an attempt to deport him) vows to get an education and make lots of money. "I'm gonna have it all, Jake," he announces, celebrating what is surely that line's 100th anniversary in show business. The soap opera continues with Bridget and Georgie O'Donnell (Alice Krige and Judi Bowker), a pair of sisters who flee Ireland when Bridget...