Don Saleski, the scrappy former Flyers forward affectionately known as Big Bird during his playing days, has spread his wings.
As a result, thousands of teenagers, primarily from the inner city, are benefiting through scholarships that pay for most of their tuition to parochial grade schools and high schools in the Philadelphia area.
Forty years after he was on a Flyers team that won its second straight Stanley Cup, Saleski now is a partner with a company that processes payments for hospitals, but he also finds time to be chairman of Business Leaders Organized for Catholic Schools (BLOCS), which last year raised $10 million to help put 5,500 children though Catholic schools.