Teacher quit corporate job to make difference
Tue, 03/09/2010 - 10:43 — Mike Steigerwald
On Sept. 12, 2001, Andre Mountain submitted his resignation and booked a flight home.
The terrorist attacks a day earlier jarred him, and he no longer wanted to sit in a cubicle of a Merrill Lynch office in New Jersey, performing the tedious task of verifying a long list of stock prices before a sale could be finalized.
The attacks reminded him how short life is, he said, and he wanted to serve the interests of the community rather than those of a corporation.
"Teaching was always nagging at me in the back of my mind," Mr. Mountain said.
