The first guest invited to ring the bell to open trading at the New York Stock Exchange in 1956 wasn’t a company executive, a politician or a celebrity. It was a 10-year-old boy, Leonard Ross ...

Salvation Army bell-ringers are people we take for granted around the holidays. Like Girl Scout cookie sales and the Kroger click-and-collect staff, they're found stationed outside of grocery ...

He also says many volunteer bell-ringers of the Red Kettle Campaign have been recipients of the programs offered by the Salvation Army — people like veterans Quinten Glover and Irving Shinard.

“Since the last generation of bell ringers had died off, the only thing to do was to train new ones in how to toll the bells. And that’s where the idea of the school was born,” Pallas said.