Post Gazette: Bill Dietrich sometimes watched his mother make three breakfasts for his father, who let each one go cold on the coffee table as he worked furiously on his company's finances. Her devotion also saved her son from the principal when he exploded a firecracker in a pencil sharpener and later in life helped keep his dreams alive about jumping from rural Conneaut Lake High School to Princeton University.
Thursday, September 08, 2011
The tale of CMU donor William Dietrich centers on family and education
Post Gazette: Bill Dietrich sometimes watched his mother make three breakfasts for his father, who let each one go cold on the coffee table as he worked furiously on his company's finances. Her devotion also saved her son from the principal when he exploded a firecracker in a pencil sharpener and later in life helped keep his dreams alive about jumping from rural Conneaut Lake High School to Princeton University.
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