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Semisweet - An Orphan's Journey Through the School the Hersheys Built (Paperback)
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Semisweet - An Orphan's Journey Through the School the Hersheys Built (Paperback)
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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 publicity, won the battle to reclaim the soul of the
school. Johnny O'Brien, an orphan who lived at the school growing
up, helped to lead the successful alumni protest. In a shocking
turn of events, he was then selected to become Milton Hershey
School's eighth president and tasked with restoring the mission,
morale, and character-building culture of "the Home." He would need
all his orphan resilience, Princeton and Johns Hopkins wisdom, and
his good friends, to transform this unusual and remarkable school.
In a riveting and haunting account, O'Brien tells a universal story
about the vulnerability of needy children, describes the madness
that consumed his beloved brother, explores the cruelty of
bullies-both young and old, exposes the corrupting influence of
money, and shows how the Milton Hershey School continues its sacred
mission of saving thousands of America's neediest children. See the
website for the book at semisweetbook.com.
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