by John U. Bacon | Jun 22, 2022 | Season 1
Episode Summary: Brenda Ryan Brenda Ryan grew up in Detroit in the late 1960s, and took a big chance to enroll at Michigan Tech, sight unseen. She started a promising career at General Motors before getting her masters and starting her own companies – three, now, all...
by John U. Bacon | Jun 15, 2022 | Season 1
Episode Summary: Amanda Macaluso Almost three decades ago, Amanda Macaluso, from Australia, decided to work at Hayo-Went-Ha for Girls just for a year, on a lark – but she never left. Thanks to a dramatic scene on a beach, she was transported her from possibly being...
by John U. Bacon | Jun 9, 2022 | Season 1
Episode Summary: Brad Black Brad Black grew up in Omaha, Nebraska, where he met people from across the country passing through their train station. He rose up quickly through the ranks at Pitney-Bowes, then re-built the sales side of Stryker Corporation, and...
by John U. Bacon | Jun 2, 2022 | Season 1
Episode Summary: MTU Commencement Today’s podcast is the commencement address I gave for Michigan Tech this spring. In it, I discuss what I call “the myth of inevitability. We’re often told our present world was created by enormous, unstoppable forces. Not...
by John U. Bacon | May 25, 2022 | Season 1
Episode Summary: Al Gallup Al Gallup, a 96-year old veteran of World War II, still bikes every day. A former assistant principal at Ann Arbor Huron and Dean of Community High School, during the early 70s he actually let the Huron students engage in sanctioned drag...
