Background"My background is varied," he answered. "I come from five generations of Methodist ministers, and for a while I served as a lay minister for my father. I was interested in children while I was in college. I was fascinated by nature as well, and so I created the first ant villages for the children to study. "I often wondered where the great studies went wrong, how children suffered, even then, from a lack of communication with their parents. So I created various educational toys and marketed them along with the ant villages throughout the United States, from Macy’s in New York to Bullock’s here in Los Angeles. These toys were very successful, but still I felt that something was missing in my life. I picked up my search for something more. "What a fascinating beginning," I said. "I’m a musician, too, and I paid my way through college by playing the marimba. I played with some of the famous bands of the time." |
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