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You can't help noticing Mary Schmidt Campbell's energy and sense of purpose. They're in her brisk stride; in the quick movement of her eyes as they check out everyone and everything in her orbit; the okay-let's-get-this-done set of her face.
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After starting Dennison Electric in 1997 with $36,000 of his personal savings, Steven Dennison, with new contracts, new prospects and phenomenal growth, was soon prompted to seek additional funding. However, despite his track record of success, potential for continued growth and a list of prospective projects, the electrical contractor was rejected by both Citibank and Chase Bank (now JP Morgan Chase).
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To be chosen to receive the Sylvanus Thayer Award is a personal tribute of high and unmatched quality. This single event places me among a group of distinguished Americans you believe best embody the core principles of West Point: Duty. Honor. Country. You must understand those words in order to allow your lives to fulfill their meaning in depth and to expand that meaning through the service rendered. A biographer of the Duke of Marlborough, writing in 1894, said that "in England, the noble, selfless word duty' has long been the motto of her famous warrior sons." We should understand duty in the context of a noble, selfless word rather than as simply something that has to be done. Dwight Eisenhower, who preceded me on this stage by 34 years, was a student of the concept of duty. "No man can always be right," he wrote. "So the struggle is to do one's best; to keep the brain and conscience clear; never to be swayed by unworthy motives and inconsequential reasons, but to strive to unearth the basic factors involved and then to do one's duty."
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