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“I have been thinking about the topics of grit and how people overcome obstacles for a long time,” she said. “I didn’t know how they got there, I only knew the end product.” “With many of the alumni I felt like they were a part of me because I knew them not from Temple, but from their achievements,” said Goldsmith. For a while she had wanted to write a book about how people overcome obstacles and was inspired to write about the journeys of Temple alumni that the public might know little about. One day, Goldsmith made a phone call to the Arcadia Publishing Company to buy books about the City College of New York and in conversation she asked why they did not have a book about Temple University. Temple alumni pictured: Daniel Aaron, CLA ’50, Laura Carnell, CLA ’89 Aaron McKie, CPH ’94 Edith Windsor, CLA ’50 former Owls (Daryl) Hall and (John) Oates, KLN ’70, and David Goodis, KLN ’38. Temple Made: Profiles in Grit by Ronnyjane Goldsmith.

She presents inspiring profiles of 30 Temple alumni who began life at the bottom and found success through luck, unwavering determination and grit. Goldsmith has since added to her list of accomplishments by writing her debut book, Temple Made: Profiles in Grit. “The trick was just getting into first gear and it was a huge accomplishment because I did it myself.” “I remember being on the George Washington Bridge in New Jersey when I had to stop, not knowing if I could get started again,” said Goldsmith. “I felt isolated and I never wanted to have that feeling again,” explained Goldsmith.Īfter spending approximately four hours pressing her foot down on the clutch and manually shifting her Beetle’s gear stick into first gear at a school parking lot through luck, determination and grit she was able to drive from Baltimore, Maryland, to New York City.

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Goldsmith, a New York City native, was motivated to buy a 1975 Volkswagen Beetle to teach herself how to drive a stick shift years after her then-boyfriend went to a meeting and left her sitting in a manual transmission car that she did not know how to drive. The other is teaching herself how to drive a stick shift car. For author, public servant, entrepreneur and philanthropist Ronnyjane Goldsmith, CLA ’68, ’70, ’82, one of her proudest accomplishments in life is being one of the first women to be awarded a PhD from Temple University’s College of Liberal Arts in 1981.