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A man of hope, vision and action, Second Cup co-founder Frank O’Dea was awarded the degree of Doctor of Laws, honoris causa, at the 9:30 a.m. ceremony on Thursday, June 12, in recognition of a distinguished record of public service and community leadership.
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Mr O’Dea’s rags-to-riches story of succeeding against all odds is an inspiration to all entrepreneurs. Forty years ago, he was panhandling in the alleys of Toronto and sleeping in 50-cent-a-night flophouses. After a few stabs at running such businesses as selling coin sorters to churches or coffee beans to consumers, he envisioned selling coffee by the cup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He eventually sold his interest in Second Cup, which became the largest chain of gourmet coffees and teas in the country, and co-founded Proshred Security, a company that pioneered the industry of on-site document destruction. Today, he is one of Canada’s most successful entrepreneurs. Mr O’Dea’s achievements also extend to the not-for-profit sector, nationally and abroad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As founder of War Child (Canada) and co-founder of Street Kids International and the Canadian Landmine Foundation, he has raised awareness about landmines, street children devastated by war or family circumstances, and AIDS orphans. He also launched a book about his inspiring journey – When All You Have is Hope<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A man of hope, vision and action, Second Cup co-founder Frank O’Dea was awarded the degree of Doctor of Laws, honoris causa, at the 9:30 a.m. ceremony on Thursday, June 12, in recognition of a distinguished record of public service and community leadership. Mr O’Dea’s rags-to-riches story of succeeding against all odds is an inspiration […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":340,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cu_dining_location_slug":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_page_type":[],"class_list":["post-12512","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12512"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13502,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12512\/revisions\/13502"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_page_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_page_type?post=12512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}