And He’s Modest Too!

      From the Baker Orange:

On Sept. 23, Baker [College] gave an honorary degree to alumnus and commissioner of the Social Security Administration (SSA) Frank Bisignano. A graduate from the class of 1979, the first recipient of a Baker bowling scholarship and raised in a multigenerational immigrant household, Bisignano’s Baker story goes far beyond Baldwin City.  …

“If you work really hard, you get lucky,” Bisignano said. “I’m sorry it’s a short one, but it’s true!” …

Few Baker graduates can call themselves a former All-American bowler as well as the chief executive officer of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), but Bisignano described how they’re not so unrelated. 

“I learned how to deliver under pressure all the time,” he said. “If you need three strikes to win by a pin and you’re the team’s anchor, that’ll teach you how to deal with things.”  …

“Great athletes make hard plays look easy; great leaders make complicated problems look simple,” Bisignano said. …