Ronald Alger:  

Life Hello: After Central High and receiving my BBA from WMU, I hit the road for a career in sales. My first job was with Kimberly Clark; and thet relocated me and my young family to Dayton Ohio. In Dayton my third child was born in April 1969. After a year I found out they were real tight wads, so I called a company I interview with at WMU that was of some interest to me, so I went to work for the Anaconda Company immeadiatly, sell copper magnet wire to OEM industrial accounts. To make a long story short, I stayed in this industry 30 years, worked for three different companies - all competitors - 2 of which went out of business after I left, but I had nothing to do with that; I just got out the door in time. This choice of career's was costly in many ways. I moved about every 5 years, losing friends and sometimes money in home equity if the market was down at the time. I also lost my first wife as she got homesick for Kalamazoo and moved back there. I moved from Kalamazoo, to Dayton, to Cleveland, to Orange County California, to Chicago (where I got married again) and had my 4th daughter, to Memphis (adding 5th child), and then back to California in 1988. My last company wanted to move me to New Mexico, and I said I...Expand for more