When Lyman Aldrich moved to Memphis in the mid-1960s, he went to work calling on grocery stores, selling toilet paper from the back of a station wagon. That changed when the Ole Miss graduate entered the training program at what is now First Tennessee Bank. The Natchez native worked there nine years, leaving as a vice president to start his own real estate investment company in 1976. Aldrich also helped shape the future of downtown, in large part through his early leadership of what became the Memphis in May International Festival.
By Marilyn Sadler
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