Blodgett was practically bornintothis business, one of nine children of a Salt Lake City, Utah, woman who started a data-entry business in her home after a child was disabled.
Borninto humble circumstances in Scotland, this onetime bank clerk and schoolteacher had the amazing knowledge, perspicacity and stick-to-itiveness to organize the undertaking and push it on an irrevocable course to completion.
Mr. Cooperman, despite his best efforts, was thrust intothis minority class even though he was born in the Bronx to a father who was a plumber and an immigrant mother.