grafton furniture is a shining example. started in 1964 by esteban grafton, the custom manufacturing company makes everything from sofas, chairs, to tables. steve: this one's 154" by 96". lemonis: his son steve now runs the business and designs most of the furniture and is 50/50 partners with his wife, mary. their son, also steve, is there to learn the business and keep it going for another generation. but when the economy turned in 2009, so did the company's fortunes. steve: the market was soft. finances were really bad. lemonis: when business slowed, the company and the family began piling up debt to keep the doors open. today, with limited funds, they work in an outdated facility that's strangling production. third-generation businesses have a high fail rate, and without some dramatic changes, the future of this business is in serious doubt. hopefully, i can get a deal done and have lots of reasons to come back to miami, including making some money. my first impression of grafton furniture is that i like what i see. i li

roger told and james grafton rogers younger brother. here is a photo of james grafton rogers in his younger years. of equal importance in the early years and, indeed, throughout the campaign was frederick r. ross the head of the denver , chamber of commerce, which formed a national park committee for the purposes of coalescing support among the denver business community. other groups came on board as well. these included the national federation of women's clubs and its colorado chapter, the daughters of the american revolution, the colorado legislature and the colorado delegation in washington, state democratic and republican organizations, and local business and civic groups in boulder, larimer, and grant counties. with some exceptions, colorado's press was friendly and supportive from the beginning. so, too, was mills' old friend john muir. "i'm heartily with you in your plan for a national park in colorado," he wrote in 1910. "i will call the attention of the sierra club to the proposed park." nowhere was mills' role more critical th

james grafton rogers, i should add, would go on to a distinguished career.clearly, without james grafton rogers and his legal expertise supporters, and his professional, political, and social friends the road to success might have been longer still. by august 1914, germany, france and great britain were at war and the united states had declared its neutrality. brought from the realities of that conflagration, and moved the nation closer. had the park bill remained stalled in congress for a year or two more, the nation and its government would no doubt have in fully august on -- had then fully focused on things other than the creation of national parks. the case for mills is equally strong. it was mills who first and last cultivated and arrest the park dream. it could be argued that it was mills who gave rogers and the colorado mountain club and the civic association, muir and the sierra club, marybelle king sherman, george horace lorimer and "the saturday evening post," the denver chamber of commerce and a lengthy list of magazine and newspaper editors and w

mary's high school, mary erickson of norwood high school, and yusuf sezer of grafton high school. i would ask you will acknowledge them. [applause] -- you all to acknowledge them. tom birmingham: we are pleased to have the top three prizewinners with us this morning. when i call your name i would like you to receive your certificate along with your check. [laughter] tom birmingham: the third place winner is abigail long from bishop feehan high school for her essay on the maria mitchell house in nantucket. abigail? [applause] tom birmingham: the second place winner is matthew tormey of pembroke high school for his essay on boston's goudey gum company and the silver age of baseball cards. [applause] tom birmingham: congratulations. and our first place winner is julia ruderman of minuteman career and technical high school in lexington for her essay on the old schwamb mill in arlington. julia? [applause] tom birmingham: congratulations to you. let's give the top winners a hearty round of applause. [applause] tom birmingham: well done and congratulations to you all. in addition to spon

lemonis: if he can't do the job, you fire him. ...there may not be a next generation of grafton furnitureyour grandfather was here. now your father is here.

and the county attorney in grafton county declines to prosecute. case, that mary was being abused, no one was listening to her, and she believed it would continue. >> genevieve began to take mary quietly behind the scenes to doctors. doctors would say, i don't think that happened. why are you saying that happened? >> and she decided to make a tape that somehow illustrated that mary had been victimized. and that was when things really got bad. >> the assistant county attorney provided us with a tape that genevieve kelley had produced at the house involving mary, dropped it off at the office here. so i sat down and watched the tape. i was looking for any evidence of wrongdoing by mark nunez who is the father. but throughout the tape, all i saw was this bizarre, strange conduct by the mother who was absolutely brainwashing the daughter and trying to get daughter to say things against her daddy. >> he's not going to hurt you ever again. >> at no time during the taping did mary have anything negative to say about her father. we analyzed everything and i

lemonis: if he can't do the job, you fire him. ...there may not be a next generation of grafton furniturehere. now your father is here.

body parts of dissected animals begin to fade, the true value of your days on the hill in austin or graftonbecome more and more apparent. you had students from more than 100 countries have gained a global perspective. that is true whether your degree is in economics or veteran or a medicine, whether you study the art of diplomacy or the science of engineering. this outward orientation is vital because the class of 2015 will live global lives. you will compete in a global workplace, shop in a global marketplace and travel further and more often than any prior generation. to succeed you will require the kind of knowledge that extends beyond mere fact you knowledge itself. i know from my own experience that such wisdom can be hard to obtain. i arrived at wellesley college about halfway between the invention of the apple watch and the discovery of fire. i had one basic goal -- to be accepted. as an immigrant, i didn't want to stand out. i wanted to fit in. fortunately in the 1950's, conformity was encouraged though we were also in a time of transition. women were finding our voices but we were