A guy chose Ithaca College partly because his high school sent a lot of kids there, then his father pushed him away from theater toward corporate communications despite his passion for it. He graduated with B-average grades, the same standard he now teaches his two sons, Chris and Luke.
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I did. I went to Ithaca College not only because they accepted me but also because a lot of my high school alums had gone there. And I had thought that I wanted to go into the world of communications that both my parents were in. But corporate communications was really what my father was involved with, speeches and newsletter writing and public relations and those types of things. Ironically, I really wanted to go to Ithaca for theater. I wanted to be a thespian. I did a little of that in high school. And both of my parents were kind of involved in that whole thespian society stuff in their colleges. But my father did not approve of that line of thinking. So I went into corporate communications and I was a B student. You know, I graduated Ithaca with a solid B. And that's fine. I try to instill that in my two sons, Chris and Luke. About I'm not looking for the A and the A plus.