A philanthropist and former UPS driver knows what it feels like not to have the means to pay for college.
Calvin E. Tyler Jr., 78, vividly recalls when he was forced to drop out of the Baltimore-based HBCU (historically Black colleges and universities) known then as Morgan State College.
“I didn’t have a scholarship,” explained Tyler. “I had to pay my own way, and I just ran out of money. I was working and going to school, both at the same time, and it was a struggle.”
After dropping out of college in 1963, Tyler says his life’s trajectory changed when he became a driver for UPS in 1964 a role that would lead him to management, then to senior vice president of operations and eventually to board member of UPS.
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Nearly 60 years ago, Calvin E. Tyler Jr. dropped out of college because he couldn t afford it. This week, the same school Tyler once attended announced he had donated $20 million to increase a scholarship fund established in his name.
Tyler enrolled at what was then Morgan State College, a historically Black college in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1961, according to a press release from the school. But he left in 1963 due to lack of funding, and became a UPS driver.
He started out as one of the first 10 UPS drivers in Baltimore, and worked his way up at the company eventually becoming senior vice president of operations before his retirement in 1998, according to Morgan State. He also joined the board of directors, but never forgot where he started, the school said.