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John W. Colloton (born 1931 in Mason City, Iowa) was the Director and CEO for the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics from 1971 to 1993. He assumed the title of director emeritus in 2001. He had a great influence in developing the University of Iowa's hospital program. Colloton is the recipient of the Horatio Alger Award for Distinguished Americans.
His son, Steven Colloton, sits as a judge on United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. He was nominated by President George W. Bush in 2003.
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Horatio Alger Jr. was an American writer of young adult novels about impoverished boys and their rise from humble backgrounds to lives of middle-class security and comfort through hard work, determination, courage, and honesty. His writings were characterized by the "rags-to-riches" narrative, which had a formative effect on the United States during the Gilded Age.
Robert James Nicholson is an attorney, real estate developer, and a former Republican Party chairman. He was the United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs from January 26, 2005, until October 1, 2007.
Walter Scott Jr. is an American civil engineer, philanthropist, and former CEO of Peter Kiewit Sons' Incorporated.
Nido Qubein is an American Lebanese-Jordanian businessman and motivational speaker. He currently serves as president of High Point University, a position he has held since 2005. He received his Associate's degree in business from Mount Olive College, his bachelor's degree in human relations from High Point University in 1970, and his Master of Science in business education from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro Bryan School of Business & Economics in 1973; in 2009, he was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Letters in humanities degree from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Qubein is the founder and chairman emeritus of the National Speakers Association Foundation. He has served as Chairman of the Great Harvest Bread Company since 2001 and on the board of directors of BB&T since 1990 and La-Z-Boy Corporation since 2006. Since 2005 when Qubein became the seventh president of High Point University, the university has nearly tripled the number of faculty, tripled traditional undergraduate enrollment, and added four academic schools. Qubein is notable for being the third or fourth highest paid college president in the United States, earning $2.9 million a year in 2013. In 2016, The Chronicle of Higher Education reported that Qubein was the third-highest donor university president in the country from 2006 to 2016. He committed $10 million to High Point University.
John William Rollins was an American businessman and politician from Greenville, Delaware. He was a member of the Republican Party, and served as the 14th Lieutenant Governor of Delaware.
Steven Michael Colloton is a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit since 2003.
The Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans is a nonprofit organization based in Alexandria, Virginia, that was founded in 1947 to honor the achievements of outstanding Americans who have succeeded in spite of adversity and to emphasize the importance of higher education. The association is named for Horatio Alger, a 19th-century author of hundreds of dime novels in the "rags-to-riches" genre, extolling the importance of perseverance and hard work.
Ragged Dick; or, Street Life in New York with the Boot Blacks is a Bildungsroman by Horatio Alger Jr., which was serialized in Student and Schoolmate in 1867 and expanded for publication as a full-length novel in May 1868 by the publisher A. K. Loring. It was the first volume in the six-volume Ragged Dick Series and became Alger's best-selling work. The tale follows a poor bootblack's rise to middle-class respectability in 19th-century New York City. It had a favorable reception. Student and Schoolmate reported their readers were delighted with the first installment, and Putnam's Magazine thought boys would love the novel. The plot and theme were repeated in Alger's subsequent novels and became the subject of parodies and satires.
Ann Colloton is a former competitive swimmer. She was a five-time Big Ten Conference champion, an eight-time All-American, and the NCAA breaststroke champion in 1989. She was the first athlete in University of Michigan history to be twice named female athlete of the year and was also named Michigan's Female Athlete of the Decade for the 1980s. She was inducted into the University of Michigan Athletic Hall of Honor in February 2008.
Michael William Wright was an American business executive and Canadian football player. He served as chief executive officer of SuperValu (1981–2001) and as a director of Wells Fargo & Company.
Michael Jackson is the Executive Chairman and former chief executive officer, and president of AutoNation, Inc. Under his guidance the organization became the largest automotive retailer in the United States, using a more customer-focused, transparent and contemporary business model.
"Self-made man" is a classic phrase coined on February 2, 1832 by Henry Clay in the United States Senate, to describe individuals whose success lay within the individuals themselves, not with outside conditions. Benjamin Franklin, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, has been described as the greatest exemplar of the self-made man. Inspired by Franklin's autobiography, Frederick Douglass developed the concept of the self-made man in a series of lectures that spanned decades starting in 1859. Originally, the term referred to an individual who arises from a poor or otherwise disadvantaged background to eminence in financial, political or other areas by nurturing qualities, such as perseverance and hard work, as opposed to achieving these goals through inherited fortune, family connections, or other privileges. By the mid-1950s, success in the United States generally implied "business success".
Robert H. Dedman Sr. (1926–2002) was an American businessman and philanthropist. He is best known as the founder and past chairman of ClubCorp.
Gregory Renker, is best known for cofounding Guthy-Renker with partner Bill Guthy. He was born in Phoenix, Arizona in 1957 and had eight siblings. Growing up, Renker's family moved a lot due to his father's work managing country clubs and hotels. Renker worked his way through college at the San Diego State University and married Stacey Renker several years later.
William "Bill" Jude Doré is an American businessman and political donor.
George L. Graziadio Jr. (1919–2002) was an American commercial real estate developer, banker and philanthropist. With George Eltinge, he developed 100 shopping centers for Kmart in California and elsewhere in the 1950s. In 1963, they co-founded Imperial Bancorp, which was later acquired by Comerica and renamed Comerica Bank-California. The Graziadio School of Business and Management at Pepperdine University bears his name.
Peter Joseph Jannetta was an American neurosurgeon known for devising microvascular decompression, a surgical procedure to treat trigeminal neuralgia. At the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, he was the first Walter Dandy Professor of Neurological Surgery.
William Eugene "Bill" Greehey is an American businessman and philanthropist.
Robert G. Miller is an American businessman. He serves as the Chairman Emeritus of Albertsons Companies.
Rebecca MacDonald is a Canadian businesswoman from Toronto, Ontario of Serbian origin. Recipient of several business awards, she is founder and executive chair of Just Energy Group Inc., an energy commodities trading company.