LETTERS
Gary Bernstein
Good Morning Daryl,
I knew this was coming. It was just a matter of time.
As you very well know, I have been fortunate enough to have met a great many inspiring and impressive people throughout my adult life. You, my friend, are at the top of the list.
After experiencing some very deep personal pain in my professional life in my early thirties, I vowed to never again be "hurt" in that way. In so doing, my idea was to treat everything as "just a job" and maintain an arm's length approach to the companies I worked for and the people I worked alongside. I was doing pretty darn well with that until I came to work at UPM and had a chance to work with you and get to know you.
You are a remarkable person and I can't thank you enough for everything I gained from working at UPM. Unknowingly, my eyes and heart were opened again and I once again became the person I had set out to be early in my career.
I know you will be extraordinarily successful in your new endeavors. I know that because you truly CARE; it's not lip-service. Anyone that has spent any amount of time with you can see that right away. It literally pours out of you. Swen Nater once said about Coach Wooden, while pondering why Coach's former players kept coming around to see him.... "is it because they want to be with and keep in touch with the most successful coach of all time? No... it's because they know where love is." That same quality permeates your aura.
I have been blessed many times over in my life (my amazing wife, wonderful kids, Coach Wooden, good health despite my efforts to sabotage that); I rank having had the chance to get to know you in that group of blessings.
Good luck and godspeed. I will do my best to direct traffic your way.
Your friend always,
Gary Bernstein
"Daryl's services would be extremely beneficial to many sports teams."
