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My first job: Helping the haberdasher

Weidner If people skills are key to association leadership, then which of Bob Weidner's varied early-career jobs prepared him best? Was it as a teacher of science and social studies to 5th and 6th graders at St. Patrick's parochial school in Momence, Ill.? Coping with excited fans as a baseball umpire and basketball referee? Fielding questions from Wall Street analysts, portfolio managers and media as general manager of investor and corporate relations at the metals service unit of Inland Steel? All played a part, but Weidner—longtime CEO of the $12 million-revenue Metals Service Center Institute—starts weaving his tale in 1973 with experience in an old-time… Read More