“That Piece of Paper”
August 10, 2009 by Julie
Filed under People and Places
No one seems more surprised at what a single piece of paper can do for you than Cory Willingham.
Had he known what life would be like, the constant struggle to find and keep a job that did not require a high school diploma, he might have done things differently. Twenty years ago, Cory dropped out of Highland Park High School in Topeka, Kansas. He says he fell in with the “wrong crowd” and that once his father got sick, he had to get a job to help out. Cory says it went downhill from there. Read more
