at the Pine Crest School. Foreman credits his grandfather Samuel Polack as his inspiration in business. A European immigrant who came to America in the early 1900s with his mother, Sam left school to work as a coal carrier on the railroad and a copy boy at a newspaper. He later worked as a coal miner in Pennsylvania, but left the coal mines during World War II to join the US Navy. After the war, Sam went to work for the United States Bureau of Mines where he developed products and procedures for mine safety. He spent the second half of his career traveling coal country to educate miners and mine owners about new techniques in mine safety. Foreman also credits his mother, Joyce, for inspiring him in work and ethics. Ms. Foreman started her career at the Rockwell Manufacturing Company in Pittsburgh, PA. After moving to New Jersey in the early 1960s and raising a family, she went back to work as a marketing executive at the Sperry & Hutchinson company, marketing S&H Green Stamps, and later at Citi Corp as VP of marketing for their industrial credit division. References External links Basic Fun! K'nex Uncle Milton Toys Living people American financiers Year of birth missing (living people) American chief executives American company founders