Editing Howard Schultz (section)

== Early life and education ==
Howard D. Schultz was born on July 19, 1953, to [[Ashkenazi Jewish]] parents, Fred and Elaine Schultz, in [[Brooklyn]], New York.<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/02/business/new-economy-starbucks-was-put-defensive-attack-internet-rumor-mill-that-would.html New York Times: "New Economy; How Starbucks was put on the defensive by an attack on the Internet rumor mill that would not go away" By Sherri Day] June 2, 2003</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/commentators/howard-schultz-i-raise-my-frappuccino-to-the-brits-1655293.html|title=Howard Schultz: I raise my frappuccino to the Brits|website=[[The Independent]]|date=March 27, 2009|access-date=June 4, 2018}}</ref> His father was a truck driver while his mother was a receptionist. Howard has two siblings.<ref name="Mirror22464724">{{cite web|url=https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2010/08/05/starbucks-howard-schultz-on-how-he-became-coffee-king-115875-22464724/|title= Starbucks' Howard Schultz on how he became coffee king|author=Melissa Thompson|publisher=Sunday Mirror|date=August 5, 2010}}</ref><ref name="Koehn">Howard is constantly reminding his team, "We are not in the coffee business serving people; we are in the people business serving coffee."[https://web.archive.org/web/20140104040308/http://skellogg.sdsmt.edu/IE354/Supplement/howars_s.pdf Kellogg School of Management: "Howard Schultz and Starbucks Coffee Company" by] [[Nancy Koehn|Nancy F. Koehn]] November 28, 2011. Archived January 4, 2014.</ref> Schultz grew up in the [[Canarsie, Brooklyn|Canarsie]] [[public housing]] projects.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www1.nyc.gov/site/nycha/about/press/pr-2017/chair-shola-olatoye-delivers-speech-on-the-future-of-public-housing-at-nahro-conference-in-washington-20170328.page|title= NYCHA Chair Shola Olatoye delivers speech on the future of public housing at NAHRO conference in Washington |date=January 2019}}</ref> According to Schultz, his family was poor, although childhood contemporaries recount a middle-class upbringing, with one of his contemporaries referring to the development in which he was raised as "the country club of projects."<ref name="Fisher">{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/howard-schultz-says-he-grew-up-in-a-poor-rough-place-those-who-lived-there-called-it-the-country-club-of-projects/2019/03/13/4f26b800-39e9-11e9-a06c-3ec8ed509d15_story.html|title=Howard Schultz says he grew up in a poor, rough place. Those who lived there called it the 'country club of projects.'|last=Fisher|first=Marc|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|language=en|access-date=April 14, 2020}}</ref>

Schultz spent his time after school at the [[Boys Club of America|Boys Club]] of New York. He is active in the Boys’ Club of New York's Alumni.<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.bcny.org/members/|title= Lifetime Membership Card – BCNY}}</ref>

Schultz graduated from [[Canarsie High School]] in 1971.<ref name=JWL>{{cite web|url= https://www.bcny.org/members/|title= Howard Schultz|publisher=Jewish Virtual Library|access-date=June 27, 2019}}</ref> He attended [[Northern Michigan University]] (NMU) from 1971 to 1975, where he was a member of [[Tau Kappa Epsilon]] fraternity, graduating with a [[Bachelor of Arts|B.A.]] in [[Communication studies|communications]]. He had played football, expecting an athletic scholarship but an injury caused him to quit.<ref name="Fisher"/><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Howard-Schultz|title=Howard Schultz {{!}} Biography, Starbucks, & Facts|website=Encyclopedia Britannica|language=en|access-date=April 20, 2020}}</ref><ref name=":28">{{Cite book|last1=Schultz|first1=Howard|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=V_MjPzynsRcC|title=Pour Your Heart Into It: How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time|last2=Yang|first2=Dori jones|date=1997|publisher=Hachette Books|isbn=978-0-7868-8356-1|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Distinguished Alumni |url=https://www.tke.org/about/distinguished-alumni |publisher=[[Tau Kappa Epsilon]] |access-date=December 7, 2023}}</ref>