A former Wendy’s manager in Cape Cod is headed to Yale University on a full scholarship after the owners helped fund his community college education. His name is Thalles Winner DeSouza and he was working as a shift manager in high school when his bosses promised to help him attend college if he stayed with the company.  So, they gave him three years of community college tuition. Thalles…

An owner of a boat company in North Carolina that spent nearly six decades rebuilding a business has decided to give it away rather than sell it.  His name is Eddie Smith Jr. and he turned down huge offers for Grady-White Boats and instead transferred control of the company to a trust. Eddie took over the near-bankrupt company in the 1960s and helped grow it into a business generating more…

A 64-year-old father of five graduated from nursing school after studying alongside his son at the University of the West of England.  He has now secured a nursing position at a local hospital where he completed most of his training. The man’s favorite part of his college experience was spending one day each week on campus with his son.  And he said studying with younger classmates helped him feel young…