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Daily Record Financial News &

Monday, June 19, 2017

Vol. 104, No. 155 • One Section

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LESSONS FROM A JUDGE

Photo by Max Marbut

Duval County Judge Pauline Drake is a former teacher who still spends time in the classroom.

In the courtroom and the classroom, County Judge Pauline Drake is a teacher.

By Max Marbut Associate Editor Many teachers leave the classroom to seek new careers, including Duval County Judge Pauline Drake. Many people were inspired to pursue a career in education by their teachers, including Drake. And there are teachers who call on what they learned when they take on a new career, also including Drake. “I think my experience as a teacher

Bankrupt Titanic salvage firm for sale

A year ago, the owner of 5,500 artifacts from the RMS Titanic hoped the sale of just a handful of those items could solve its financial problems. But after that plan was rejected, the company is putting the entire business and its collection, which it values at more than $200 million, up for sale.

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Premier Exhibitions Inc. and several subsidiaries, including RMS Titanic Inc., filed for Chapter 11 reorganization in U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Middle District of Florida in Jacksonville in June 2016. The company owns exclusive rights to recover artifacts from the wreck of the Titanic, and produces exhibitions of artifacts of the doomed ship and other historical items, such as King Tut’s tomb. When it filed its Chapter 11 Basch

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helps me communicate with people, listen to people and understand their backgrounds,” she said. Born in a small town in Alabama near Auburn, her family moved to Brooklyn, New York, when she was 2 years old after her father was laid off at a textile mill. That’s where Drake learned about different cultures and diversity. Her father found a job as a building superintendent. “We were the only black family in an entirely Jew-

ish building,” she said. While attending third grade at a school within walking distance of her home, Drake met her first inspirational and unforgettable teacher — Ida B. Troolis. “She came to my class and asked the teacher if she could take two students to sit in her class,” Drake said. “She told us, ‘you are smarter than this, you’re going to read more and Drake

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Harrison’s health concerns CSX Board approves the CEO’s $84 million payment to take job. By Mark Basch Contributing Writer In a Securities and Exchange Commission filing Friday about the $84 million payment approved for President and CEO Hunter Harrison, CSX Corp. said the board is concerned about his health. Although Harrison needed the assistance of a portable oxygen machine at the CSX annual meeting June 5, he insisted it is

not interfering with his work. “Continued availability and service can never be guaranteed for any individual and is a particular risk in the case of Mr. Harrison, who is 72 years old and has experienced medical issues at various times, including a respiratory condition that requires him to use supplemental oxygen,” the SEC filing said. “An extended or permanent loss of the services of Mr. Harrison, due to death, disability or any other reason, could adversely disrupt the pace of implementing the company’s Precision Scheduled Railroading, or othCSX

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CSX CEO Hunter Harrison at the railroad’s annual meeting in Richmond, Virginia, on June 5.

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