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“Fitzgerald, who grew up in Friendship (on the same street as the legendary former Mayor David Lawrence) and then Churchill, drove a Yellow Cab to help pay for his CMU tuition. When he used the company taxi in his off hours to pick up Cathy for dates, she would hide by lying flat on the back seat.
Fitzgerald felt a little insecure around the brainy engineering students at CMU. But he could sell things — a skill he learned from his father, who sold plumbing supplies. After graduating from CMU in 1981, he couldn’t find a job locally; he took a sales position with NALCO Chemical Company in Illinois.
Missing Pittsburgh, he returned and started his own business that sold water treatment services and equipment.” |