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Pories Improvises In Life
Mary Jane Pories blended her teaching and acting skills to come up with a business career.
By Katy Rent
Published: April 4, 2003
GRAND RAPIDS — Mary Jane Pories got into theater through the back door. A self-proclaimed and proud-of-it "Army brat," Pories, president of Fishladder Inc., was encouraged by her surgeon father and lawyer mother to go into something "useful," like business or medicine. Pories, however, didn't feel those fields suited her and made the transformation from Jewish girl in Cleveland to Christian girl in Grand Rapids, attending Calvin College to study topics of a creative nature.

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