Ed Dotson:  

Life After a tour in the Marine Corps as a Communications Center Chief (Crypto/Top Secret stuff), I married Jenny LeGrand ('66 Two Rivers graduate). This year (2010) we've been married for 41 wonderful years. When I got out of the Service, I was hired by Col. Harland Sanders for my first "real" job as a Draftsman/Designer. Talk about exciting! I was selected to set up restaurants for him in Australia, Japan, New Zeland, and Hawaii. Using my photography hobby, I personally shot the food pictures for the KFC stores; you'll see many of them still being used to this day. The last year I was with KFC I redesigned their "image"... moving from the huge red/white pagoda roof to the more subtle image they now have. (They had over 5,000 restaurants at that time, so it was a great architectural challenge.) I've been in Marketing and Advertising for over 20 years, and at one time owned one of the largest Advertising Agencies (Carpenter, Dotson, & Tucker) in northwestern Florida; we wer...Expand for more