Dr. Paul Mullen | Baseball and Literacy

January 25, 2008

Interview with Dr. Paul Mullen [12:02m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Dr. Paul Mullen spoke to us about his crusade for America start to understand more about illiteracy in this country. His book is specially written to address the middle age group, between children and young adults.
The author’s biography from his website www.thedayihitahomerun.com

Paul Michael Mullen was born in 1960 and is the youngest boy in a family of six. He was heavily influenced by his father to begin his career in engineering. After receiving his bachelor’s degree in Industrial Technology, he left the United States Air Force as an E-5 and worked at Rockwell as an engineer on the B-1B Bomber in Palmdale, California.He continued working in industry and continued attending evening school receiving his MBA from Indiana Wesleyan in 1984. After receipt of his master’s degree, he accepted his first management position at The Miller Group in Schuylkill Haven, Pennsylvania, manufacturer of T-shirts and sweatshirts.While on sabbatical at Indiana University and attending his summer internship for his doctorate’s degree n business management, he received a vision believing God had a more important mission for him, and so he wrote SOME THINGS I HAVE LEARNED ALONG THE WAY – a self-help guide still available for sale on the used book market.In 1993 a synopsis of his doctoral thesis on the effectiveness of employee monetary systems used in industry as an employee motivator was published in Industrial Management and his research on motivational theory serves as a model and still used in industry and in management research today.Dr. Mullen continued working in industry rising to an executive staff position as operation’s manager for United Air Specialists and Armor Metal. And yet within himself, he knew his chosen career path wasn’t manufacturing.After resigning his post at United Air Specialist, he took the opportunity to teach struggling eighth-grade readers at Hardee Junior High School in Wauchula, Florida where he discovered his true calling as a writer/educator. In 2007, THE DAY I HIT A HOME RUN AT GREAT AMERICAN BALL PARK was published and the author is currently touring the Midwest promoting health and family literacy and teaching students how to become more effective readers.Dr. Mullen and his wife, Sharlene, have two college-educated children, and live on a small organic farm in Oxford, Ohio where they raise steer, chickens, and horses.

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