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Imus, Don. National radio host and bestselling author.
Dropped out of college after a week. Jones, Jeremy. Snowboarder and film star. Did not attend col-
lege. Moved to Jackson Hole, Wyoming, to pursue his passion as a snowboarder. Kubrick, Stanley. Movie director, producer, screenwriter, and
photographer. His poor high school grades made it impossible for him to attend college. Lanier, Cathy. Chief of police of Washington, DC, and the first
woman to hold this position. A junior-high-school dropout and unwed mother at 15. Mackey, John. Founder of Whole Foods. Dropped out of the
University of Texas six times. Never took a business course. Neuhaus, Richard John. Theologian, Lutheran minister, Cath-
olic priest, author, and civil rights activist. Never graduated from high school. Ono, Yoko. Artist and singer. Dropped out of Sarah Lawrence
College. Puck, Wolfgang. Chef and restaurateur. Quit school at the age
of 14 and got a job as a cooking apprentice at a hotel. Qualls, Ashley. Founder of Whateverlife.com, which helps
people build their Myspace pages. Left high school at 15 to devote herself to her website business, through which she made more than a million dollars by the age of 17.