| Glenn Turner of Orlando, Florida,
and eighth grade dropout and son of a sharecropper, who
overcame the handicap of a harelip to build a $150,000,000
business in the last three years, is being honored as this
year's "American of the Year." Mr. Turner is being honored
not only for his own philanthropic donations but for the
inspiration he instills in others to also help those less
fortunate. Some of his donations include" $160,000 to Flame
of Hope to help retarded workers, $50,000 to Dr. Wil Lour
Gray's Opportunity School in Columbia, S.C., $73,000 for the
building of the Emily Jones Home for Retarded children in
Lebanon, Ohio, $50,000 to Muscular Dystrophy Foundation,
over 2.7 million in the past 3 years. Mr. Turner said, "My
life's ambition is to go down in history as the person who
helped more poor people than any other!" |
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