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SC School Tackles Leadership

Dan Durbin
Mike Switzer/SC Public Radio

Many k-12 schools these days are specializing in certain areas, such as the arts and STEM.  Many are also reaching out to the business community to establish partnerships that help students identify career tracks as early as middle school.  Our next guest’s Lowcountry school has decided to connect with area companies to develop a specialty in teaching leadership skills.

Mike Switzer interviews Dan Durbin, headmaster at Beaufort Academy in Beaufort, SC. Also mentioned: South Carolina Leadership Campaign.

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After almost 20 years, Mike Switzer retired from Wells Fargo Securities in 2001 as Senior Vice President/Investment Officer and Certified Portfolio Manager. In 1999, he and his wife, Maggie, purchased and operated for eight years the Baskin Robbins ice cream store on Forest Drive in Columbia. They grew the store from a bottom-tier operation in the Baskin Robbins franchise system to one in the top 5% nationwide within three years, tripling sales along the way. While operating the ice cream store, Mike and Maggie received patents for a portable ice cream sink and fold-down sneezeguard they invented and in 2002 started Magnolia Carts, an ice cream cart manufacturing company, which they sold in 2013.