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Paul Bonitatibus
President, Consumer and Business Banking, Hibernia Corporation
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I had the opportunity to teach in the Head Start Program right after graduation and had 30 young children, three- and four-year-olds in that program, and then moved on to teach fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth grade in my old diocese - not in my hometown, but in my diocese, and it was fun. I had all boys in the eighth grade. I was the smallest kid in the eighth grade of the group, and it was fun. It was a chance to share with them a lot of Notre Dame stories rather than teaching them Ohio History, but then the opportunity came up.
My roommate, who was from New Orleans, suggested that perhaps there was some opportunities in New Orleans that I should pursue, and that opportunity was at a bank that his family had an ownership interest in, and his father chaired the board. And so they took me on, and the rest is sort of history.
But there is room in business, and I whenever I am doing interviews of a potential candidates and they always seem to apologize, “Well I’m a history major… well I’m an English major… I didn’t have a whole lot of accounting…” and I say, “Great. We need more of people like you, more thinkers and more folks that bring that same kind of perspective.” Now it really helps if they’re Notre Dame grads, and we go out of our way. I go out of my way for them.