Dismal as the tales of Donald Trump and Carly Fiorina may be, not
all big business people follow in their path, of which we were reminded
in a story about the memorial service for Leon Gorman, longtime CEO of
LL Bean:
Tom Bell, Portland Press Herald - Mark
Swann, executive director of Preble Street, said Gorman volunteered at
the agency’s Portland soup kitchen every Wednesday morning for 12
years...
Swann remembered getting a call last winter
from Gorman while Gorman was sitting in a plane idling on the tarmac at
Boston’s Logan International Airport during a storm. Gorman wanted to
know how Portland’s homeless were coping with the unusually cold and
stormy winter. Swann reported that they lacked warm clothes, and Gorman
immediately called the company’s warehouse and dispatched a truck filled
with winter jackets, scarves, hats and toe-warmers to distribute to the
homeless.
He was the most powerful private person in
Maine, but he often thought about ways to help the “least powerful, most
easily forgotten people in the state,” Swann said. “What a lesson from
Leon for all of us.”
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