TDN Weekend December 2016 Issue 9
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vania quarter-finals in his final year. He also golfed regularly and caddied from age 12-18 at Merion Golf Course. He once caddied for Dow Finsterwald, a winner of 11 PGA tournaments, including the 1958 PGA Championship, and carried the bags on Sundays for J. Howard Pugh, whose family owned Sunoco, and his wife. The Pughs tipped him well. "I loved the game and the atmosphere," Hertrich adds fondly. "Caddying is a great opportunity for young people. You meet people that come from the entrepreneurial world or business world or professional world. They always encourage you to get educated and follow your passion or dream. Because you are with them for five hours and they trust you and trust your judgment, it's a great opportunity to learn and dream." In 1964, Hertrich enrolled at Bucknell University in Lewis- burg, Pennsylvania, majoring in business and economics. He returned home in the summers to help his family with their dealership. Following graduation, the Vietnam War beckoned and he and some university buddies decided to enlist and join the Navy. That changed when he opted for the Army Reserve after hearing about some openings at a unit in Dover. After his discharge, he interviewed for various jobs and had his pick of what he wanted because of a shortage of college grads due to the war. He opted to work in New York with the RCA Corporation because Chairman Robert Sarn- off had major plans to build his empire with bright, young minds, similar to what Henry Ford and his Whiz Kids did with his com- pany. Hertrich worked for various sub- sidiaries under the RCA banner, in- cluding the Hertz Corporation in which he designed a long-term leasing program. The stuffy corporate world didn't appeal to him. He wanted to work for himself and left after less than