Joseph A. DiAngelo, 76-year-old dean and professor of management at St. Joseph’s University in Merion, Pa., was the first person in his family to obtain a doctorate degree. When he was growing up, his paternal grandmother Camille DiAngelo wanted him to become an accountant so that he could always find work preparing people’s income taxes, and his brother to become a doctor. Ironically, the two brothers traded places. Each May however, Dean DiAngelo shakes hands with talented, newly minted accountants, ready to prepare filings for family businesses, not unlike Joe & Tony’s, the Italian grocery store once run by his dad and uncle. 

Dean DiAngelo described the store as a mini-Wawa that sold pasta (Ronzoni), meats and cheeses – prosciutto, salami, ricotta, and provolone, as well as canned goods, which he restocked regularly at 8 years old. If he did a good job, he got two scoops of Breyers Vanilla Ice Cream in a sugar cone.