Junior Achievement eNewsletter
July 2010 - 60th Anniversary of JASD Celebrates Alumnus Wendy Gillespie
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"I can barely remember what I had for breakfast this morning, but I remember all of the details about the JA Company program I participated in more than 40 years ago," Gillespie said. "The impact and power of this experiential program still amazes me today, and inspires me to give back and pay it forward to today's students." Gillespie now serves as the principal and co-owner of Frontier Trading Inc., which markets and distributes consumer-packaged goods to Mexico and Latin America. Frontier Trading is also a long-term title sponsor of BizTown and Ms. Gillespie has served on our board since July of 2002.
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As a senior at Bloomfield High School near Newark, N.J., Wendy Gillespie's JA Company program team assembled and sold car visor kits to hold tissues and sunglasses. She was their CFO and went on to graduate from Montclair State University with a BA in Spanish and education, and a post-graduate minor in business administration.
JASD hosted an Alumni Coffee on July 8th at JA's BizTown. Attendees networked, met a JA Student Ambassador and the winning Company Program participants from Hilltop High School. In addition, attendees were given an overview about Junior Achievement and were invited to become tourists in JA BizTown as students from Garfield Elementary ran Biztown for the day.