In many respects, Kathleen’s life found expression in the dictum of Saint 
     
     Augustine that if you do good things, the times are also good. That 
     
    

    
     was perhaps best tellingly illustrated after Danny bought his first Tim 
     
     Hortons outlet in June of 1980. One sunny and hot day in July, when 
     
     not many customers were lining up for coffee, Danny was out sweeping 
     
     the parking lot when Kathleen and Bill dropped by. When Kathleen 
     
     asked Danny how was business, he replied it was not all that great. Never 
     
     say that, she admonished, always be positive and tell people how good 
     
     things are. It was a lesson that guided his future in business. 
     
    
   
   
    
     None of the children was given allowances. If they needed money, they 
     
     were expected to earn it. Growing up, all of them had a paper route. As 
     
     they became teenagers, they all had summer jobs, working in service 
     
     stations and at other summer employment. Danny, Kevin, Stephen, Mary 
     
     Jane and Joey all worked during summers as lifeguards at the National 
     
     Park. They all put themselves through university by working summer 
     
    

    
     and part—time jobs, perhaps taking a student loan out on their own. All 
     
     the boys, for instance, worked as bartenders during the school year. After 
     
     he finished grade 11, Shawn worked for six summers at Canada Packers, 
     
     sometimes continuing into the school year. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Growing up, each of the Murphy children learned that they had to work 
     
     for what they wanted. It was a valuable lesson. 
     
    
   
   
    
     When Shawn moved to Fredericton to complete his studies at the 
     
     University of New Brunswick prior to entering law school there, he 
     
     bought a three bedroom house not far from the UNB campus. He rented 
     
     out the rooms to other students, and made enough income to cover the 
     
     mortgage payments and meet other expenses. By the time he graduated 
     
     from law school, he had built up sufficient equity in the property to buy 
     
     his first new car. It was a pattern of self—reliance and entrepreneurship that 
     
     his younger siblings would follow as well. 
     
    
   
   
    
     There was an early display of the kind of entrepreneurship that would 
     
     characterize them later in their careers. One summer, as contractors were 
     
     building a number of new houses in the neighbourhood, Kevin bought 
     
     as many as 50 cases of Pepsi at once which he stored in the basement at 
     
    
   
   
    
     172 KATHLEEN MURPHY, MAITRIARC