Calvin Tyler Jr

Tyler grew up in a low-income family and was forced to drop out of Morgan State in 1963 because he couldn’t pay for the costs. Tyler saw a job advertisement in a Baltimore newspaper from United Parcel Service and got a job with the company as a driver. He rose up through the ranks during his 34-year career at the global shipping company to become senior vice president of U.S. operations and a member of the company’s board of directors before retiring in 1998. Tyler and his wife, also of Baltimore, have lived all across the country but he says they’ve never forgotten their humble beginnings.