Posts Tagged ‘Darrell Thompson’
Making the Choice: Bitter or Better
As seen in the St. Paul Pioneer Press on 6/21/15 Eight summers ago I crafted my first column for these pages. With no plan, but a calling, I set my life on a new course, despite my editor’s observation that I’d picked a bad time to get into the newspaper business. Life changed dramatically after…
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April 18, 2014 When he was a schoolboy many years ago, a substitute teacher scolded Darrell Thompson because he signed the attendance sheet twice. Though his attempt at humor escaped her it wrought a harsh prediction he never forgot: “You will not amount to anything.” Thompson graduated from John Marshall High School in Rochester, then…
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