6/11/2023 0 Comments Early's Gold by John Cranor![]() Young and idealistic, Cranor was enamored. British historian Arnold Toynbee was on the faculty back then and New College-even for the radical '60s-was "cutting edge," Cranor says. As a National Merit Scholar from Fargo, N.D., he was one of the first students to set foot on what was a scruffy, barren campus near the Sarasota Bradenton Airport when New College opened in 1964. But Cranor understands these brainy kids. ![]() He's wearing his trademark button-down blue pinstripe shirt with starched white collar, gray flannel trousers and wire-rimmed glasses-a stark contrast to the parade of baggy pants, dreadlocks and bare feet he sees outside his windows.Ĭranor, a Harvard MBA grad and Vietnam veteran as well as a former president and CEO at such iconic international companies as KFC Corporation, Long John Silver's, PepsiCo and Wilson Sporting Goods, seems to be an odd choice to sell a tiny, left-leaning liberal arts school where many students head into the social services rather than to Wall Street. ![]() ![]() Sitting on a leather sofa in his New College of Florida campus office, John Cranor, the president and CEO of New College Foundation, looks the part of a Wall Street titan. ![]()
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