Maybe The Last Renaissance Man
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CHAPTER 9 – The Bad People
For the most part, my life has been blessed with wonderful friends, acquaintances, and business associates, but with the good has come some less-than “happy” folks. I’ve already mentioned my first grade “run-ins” with Ricky! Remember, this was the boy that walked with me to…
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CHAPTER 8 – The Solar Car Challenge
Starting a high school solar car program in 1990, and enduring two major solar car races (the Phoenix 500 and the 1993 SunRayce), taught me that the Winston students couldn’t successfully race against college or corporate entries. How do 16-year old kids compete with college…
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CHAPTER 7 – Educator
I have been a teacher almost my entire life. My first job was helping my Legislative Law Professor teach his course at the University of Texas School of Law. This was a senior level course, and by this time, I had more than two years legislative law experience under my belt…
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CHAPTER 6 – Lobbyist
I learned at the outset how important “Who you Know” matters, compared to “What you Know.” Someone could have all the best information in the world, but if there was no ear to listen, you were wasting your time. This lesson was burned into my soul when I learned that some of my…
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CHAPTER 5 – Early Career and Legislative Research
Senate Sergeant-at-Arms Jeff Davis and State Senator Charles Herring secured me a job as an Assistant to the Texas Secretary of State assigned to the State Elections Division. I had the opportunity to work with Division Head Mary Kay Wall as she wrote the new 1970 Texas Election…
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CHAPTER 4 – The Vietnam War
Keith Markley, my best friend from Law School, served as a Special Assistant to Lt. Governor Preston Smith. He achieved this position much sooner than I due to his hard work, stellar personality, and a smile that just wouldn’t stop! Keith was smart as a whip, and full of great…
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CHAPTER 3 – Law School, not Medical School
My senior year at Tulane arrived with lots of disappointments, but I was faced with a huge inner struggle. I can’t remember a day in my life when I didn’t assure Dad that I was going to be a doctor, but as I got closer to entering Medical School, I found doubts filling my mind.…
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CHAPTER 2 – The Transformation of College
I graduated high school being slightly overweight, short, untanned, and terribly shy. Seeing everyone in my “gang” getting ready to go off to college, I decided I was going to radically change my life . . . and appearance. I started the raisin bran diet when I kicked-off working…
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CHAPTER 1 – The Early Years
How does a person start his memoirs when so many stories and memories are fighting to get out of my mind and onto the printed page. There is so much I want to say, and maybe little time to say it! So let me begin with one key observation that burned itself into my earliest […]
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Table of Contents
1 – The Early Years The Early Years Oren Roberts Elementary School My Ninth Grade Bully Beachcomber Marks My Lawnmower Experience My Chemistry Lab Experience High School Science Fair Project Nightmare Inheritance from My Dad Introvert Marks meet Billy Bammell, Jr. Senior High…