Walter D. Fuller*
Class of 1953
- Chairman of the Board and President Curtis Publishing Company
Look for the good in others-it's always there.
Born in Corning, Iowa, in 1882, Walter Fuller was from a family of modest means. His parents moved to Norwich, Connecticut, where Fuller sold newspapers and worked in cotton mills and the offices of civil engineers while attending high school.
Unable to attend college, he took a correspondence course in engineering while working at a bank for $4 a week. Later, he worked in the circulation department of a publishing company, earning $15 weekly. He went on to do circulation work at Curtis Publishing Company, which published the Saturday Evening Post and the Ladies' Home Journal in addition to other magazines and newspapers.
Fuller worked his way up the ladder at Curtis Publishing, eventually becoming president and chairman of the board.