Standing Tall
Songs and Stories of an Accidental Warrior
  • "Taken in light of all Brian achieved in his life, it makes you wonder how much more he could have done if he hadn’t had to spend so much time and energy knocking down walls and breaking through barriers just to compete on a level playing field."
    Neal McLane
    Brother
  • “No one – and I mean no one – is any better than Brian McLane at putting strangers together and then letting them discover how much they have in common, or at making people realize just how much mutual ground they share."
    Larry Bashe
    Syracuse University, Class of 1966
  • “The single greatest recruiter and organizer I have ever known in my life. Period.”
    Chuck Wainwright
    Syracuse University, Class of 1968
  • “We varsity basketball players may have got Brian around campus. But, believe me, he got us through school.”
    Rex Trobridge
    Syracuse University, Class of 1966
  • “I was waiting tables and wasting all sorts of youthful promise when one day Brian pulled me aside and gave me a good, healthy dose of tough love. He told me my future was out there, but I wasn’t going to find it schlepping food and drinks for a living. So – and I mean this literally – I owe my career to Brian."
    Charlie Michaud
    Principal & Managing Director, CCS (NY)

Brian's Scrap Book

My Best Friend

By Brian McLane The show was Ironside.  Like so many 1960s cop shows, it was predictable, formulaic, and built around a quirky and/or flawed cop/private detective always referred to (for reasons, apparently, known only to him) by just his last name. We didn’t care. Hell, we loved Ironside, my brother and I, and watched it religiously every […]

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Soundtrack of my life: The Impossible Dream

Richard Kiley 1965 If my life had a theme song, this one might be it. What’s more, and very much related to that, I suppose it would have been understandable for anyone along the way to have believed that my one lifelong “impossible” dream was always to one day walk, like everyone else.  But just […]

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