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BY GLEN BARR
After all these years, what finally lead
me to my first good paying job with a title and an office and
indoor plumbing? It couldn't have been my brains. I was a genus
twenty years ago. It couldn't have been my looks. I was just
as "cute" when I was a younger man.
It all started at a one thousand watt radio station . . . No.
That's Ted Baxter's story.
It all started when Gaylon Reasons mentioned desktop publishing
and I went to see Bobby Gregory at VR about the possibilities.
Then Dr. Stan Cronk, UT Rehab Engineering, put together a computer
system; the system I demonstrated at a STAR Center outreach program
in Dyersburg. It was there in 1990 I met Margaret Doumitt, Lee
Goodner, Gary King and others with STAR and life has never been
sane, I mean, the same.
In accepting this award, or rather this job, I must thank others
who crossed my path and/or got in my way: Trish Farmer, Sharon
Wenz, Nancy Hughes, Dara Howe, Wanda Willis, Nancy Connor,
Judy Duke (of the Dukes of Hazzard), Sharon Hazzard (of the Hazzards
of Duke), Debra Cunningham, Jackie Page, Dianne Coleman and Liz
Taylor, a dozen beautiful women one of whom once stayed overnight
in my office.*
There were other little people like Floyd Stewart, Dr. Richard
Chesteen, Kevin Wright, the Wright brothers, Ron Massie, Bob
Dean, Elornor Dean, James Dean, Jimmy Dean Sausage and even smaller
people like Joe Bennett, Stoy Slaughter, Laddie Owens, Mark Johnston,
Freeman Dudley and Bo Diddley* who helped along the way.
And, of course, my family has been very supportive because they
know I can't take it with me. I would not be here today if God
had not put these people on the road I was traveling and, the
way I drive, they have a lot to be thankful for, too.
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