by Tommy Spaulding | Jan 4, 2022 | Blog
Saturday, October 18, 1986, was the day my life was changed forever. Besides getting married and witnessing my kids being born, that cool autumn day thirty-six years ago was the greatest day of my life. All because of one man’s belief in me. Suffern High School...
by Tommy Spaulding | Dec 24, 2021 | Blog
For years, my family and I have had the most wonderful tradition. During our dinner conversations every night we don’t just have small talk or NSW conversations (news, sports, weather). We try to have meaningful conversations. Conversations that make us...
by Tommy Spaulding | Apr 28, 2020 | Blog
I called a good friend last week and asked her for a favor. My friend, Andrea, sits on the Board of Trustees at an East Coast private high school that has sent some of their students to participate in our annual National Leadership Academy. “We’d love to have ten more...
by Tommy Spaulding | Apr 21, 2020 | Blog
The world will always remember what happened at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, twenty-one years ago, yesterday. The Columbine High School massacre, at the time, was the deadliest school shooting in the history of the United States. Unfortunately, since...
by Tommy Spaulding | Apr 13, 2020 | Blog
My father’s side of the family was small. He had only one sister, who became a Catholic nun at the age of sixteen. So, I had no first cousins, or uncles, on my father’s side—only visits to the convent to see Sister Loralee or to my grandma’s house in upstate New York....