Biography|Chris Kempczinski — The Chapel Where a Cincinnati Kid Finished Duke

People remember McDonald's chiefs as operators who grew up behind a grill. Chris Kempczinski was not that story. He was born in Boston in 1968 and raised in Cincinnati, the son of a University of Cincinnati vascular surgeon and a Terrace Park elementary teacher. He finished Indian Hill High School in 1987, then left Ohio for Duke. In 1991 he took a bachelor's degree there in public policy and economics. Duke's commencement that year was published as 10 May 1991. The chapel on the West Campus ridge is where the university still gathers for that ritual. The building is not a workplace. It is the public room that marks the end of the formation that sent him first to Procter and Gamble, not to a restaurant. He later joined Duke's Board of Trustees. The chapel remains the cleanest pin for the degree itself. Photo: Gregw824, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons