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Administrative Training Pioneer Celebrates Unlikely 25-Year Anniversary

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Along the way, the entrepreneur encountered massive and numerous setbacks that threatened the livelihood of the budding business: multiple re-locations, the tragic loss of Dave Burge (Joan’s spouse and VP of Operations) to pancreatic cancer, and Joan’s own medical emergency that nearly took her life and forced the business to its knees in 2014.

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29 Beautiful Stories That Will Restore Your Faith in Humanity

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He started with his wife, Dawn, and has been doing it alone since her death in 2014. In March 2017, someone anonymously donated $1 million to pay for students across the country to receive free access to The New York Times online, according to a press release from the New York Times Company. foster care system for over 20 years.

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