Jim Forsythe:  

I live in Corpus Christi, didn't get married till I was 28 and have been married since. I have three kids-- 2 of my own and one I got in the bargain with my wonderful wife. After graduation somehow my uncle with a big red Caddy talked me into wanting to become a dentist. That didn't work out. I wasn't Jack Wazel and knew nothing about delayed gratification (though I did well in school) I dropped out for an extended winter in Puerto Rico (5 months) to surf. The first few months there I couldn't relax I kept thinking I should be back at school and for the last three months I couldn't imagine going back to Texas but I did. After working for a year or so I went with a friend to SWTSU in San Marcos for one semester. I took a dance class (to meet girls), a photography class, an art class, a creative writing class and a journalism class. After that semester I went back to work at Don Berger's company Texas Automatic Foods where I ran a food route. Eventually I couldn't take the hours so I started working full time at a t-shirt factory. (In Puerto Rico an artist lived in the house I rented and across the gully a guy printed tshirts so I watched them work some and picked up a little bit and went and found a place to work in Houston part time when I came back). The winters were bad for the tshirt business and I had a yen to surf again(I couldn't stand Texas surf much) so I went to the Mexican Pipleline with Keith Fernandez. The day we left was March 3rd and it was snowing in Houston. I stayed several months and got back and started working printing Gilley's tshirts. The guy who had the account had one print head and his father and me and we (I printed and he folded) almost 30 - 40 dozen t-shirts an hour. They were the red on white Gilley's shirt. I made $6 an hour plus a penny a print. I was living at my mom's house and rode my bike to work and back and save 7 Grand in 9 months. I went to UT- my 4th college since high school in '81. (TX A&I, UH, SWTSU) I focused on art and was able to take upper level classes my first year when I showed the profs at registration my portfolio. (I forgot to mention the whole time I was working and the surf trip to mexico I was drawing all the time.) So to make a long story short I spent four years at UT, won all the scholarships availa...Expand for more