Albert J. Doermaet, Jr. was born on the northwest side of Chicago in 1947, just a few years after the end of World War #2. His family evntually moved to the southwest side of the city, where he attended St. Rita High School. After graduating St. Rita in 1965, he enrolled at Western Michigan, where he studied math and played football. After graduating from Western Michigan, he came back to Chicago and became a teacher and football coach at Weber High School. During his ninth year at Weber, Mr. Doermaet bought six portable toilets from a traveling salesman and so began the Hoaratio Alger portion of his life's story. Mr. Doermaet began to rent out the portable toilets (they ended up being a very good investment). At first, he'd stored them in the alley behind the apartment building he lived in andd delivered them using his pickup truck. Soon he was making so much money that he bought six more. he rented the back of a small lot in what is now called the Lincoln Park neighborhood in Chicago. With twelve port-o-lets, he made even more money. Soon he bough twelve more and a large truck to deliver them. The rest, as they say, is history. In 2006, forty years after founding his company (ACI,. which is short for Al's Cans, Inc.), he sold the company (which was always 100% privately held) to Waste Management, a very large competitor, for hundreds of millions of dollars. Mr. Doermaet took up golf after his business took off because he no longer had time to coach football and needed a competitive part of his life. Mr. Doermaet in addition to being a serious golfer, is a philathropist. He regularly gives money to a variety of Catholic charities and to both republican and democrat politicians because, as he othen says, "no matter how you vote, you still need a pot to piss in." Mr. Doermaet's other favortie saying is "Your s#@* is my BREAD and BUTTER!"

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