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An Orphan's Journey Through the School the Hersheys Built
The Milton Hershey School is the richest and wealthiest K-12 residential school in the world. Its $12 billion trust fund, financed by sales of the iconic Hershey candy, eclipse that of Cornell, Dartmouth, and Johns Hopkins combined. Even more stunning is that the school for orphans owns The Hershey Company and not the other way around.As the twentieth-century drew to a close, the School's Board of Managers creatively interpreted the Founder's mission and tried to turn the refuge for extremely needy children into more of a middle-class boarding school. The alumni Homeguys challenged the Board and, after a decade of legal struggle and national…
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- ISBN: 978-1-4422-7584-3
- EAN: 9781442275843
- Produktnummer: 20257767
- Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 220 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D1.3 cm 345 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 345
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