Tom Cooper:  

Life After graduating from Sarasota High School in 1962, I attended the University of Florida where I majored in business and got my B.S. in Business Administration degree in Dec 1965 in a little over 3 years (trimester system). Worked one fantastic summer during my college years at the New York Worlds Fair in NY where I met my wife of now of almost 50 years. We met working in the same Brass Rail hot dog stand and Wisconsin Pavilion later on. Enlisted in the US Army after college, attended Infantry OCS (Officer Candidate School) at Ft. Benning, Georgia where I graduated and was commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant. Was given a branch transfer to the Adjutant General Corp and served my required two years of active duty at a major US Army command headquarters in the Washington DC area. After wasting 18 months working for Sears Roebuck in their management training department, I finally convinced a stock brokerage firm to hire me as a stockbroker where I toiled the next 10 years with two different major Wall Street investment banking firms and attended graduate school at night studying Finance at Georgia State Universi...Expand for more