H. Spencer Faircloth

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From Watermelon Inspector to the White House (eBook, ePUB)

A Memoir

Beschreibung

For an old country boy from South Georgia, I never dreamed of all the adventures my journey through life would produce during my eighty-plus years on this earth. I began life with two loving Christian parents who taught me I could achieve any goal if I worked hard and followed my Christian upbringing. I graduated from Leesburg High School in 1947, one of ten in my class, and set out to put those lessons into practice. After my first year at Emory at Oxford College, it was clear I had not been exposed to as comprehensive an education as many of my fellow students. I was a young man from a small Southern town, and I still had a lot more to learn. But I was also the son of parents who taught me the value of working and learning and challenging myself, so I never shied away from hard or demanding work. Decades of service in the United States Air Force, including two tours in Cold War Europe and leading a committee for the President of the United States, would continue my education. I approached each new challenge with the same understanding and determination as that first semester of college. Maybe I was not as equipped as I could have been, but I could learn and I would not quit. With each success, my bosses continued to recommend me for more important and more challenging work, and each recommendation gave me the confidence I needed to rise to the next challenge. Over the years I have laughed with famous actors and fighter aces, dined with mob bosses, and partied with presidents. I have worked to dig civilization out from the ruins of war, helped feed a continent, flown around the world in service to my country and her veterans, and built a life with the most amazing woman I have ever known. This incredible journey has taught me many important lessons and left me with countless stories of historic events and incomparable people. I feel blessed to have lived this life, and I hope my stories are an equal blessing to you.

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"From Watermelon Inspector to the White House is a ticket on a time machine with stops at many of the most important moments of the twentieth century. Your tour guide, Lt. Col. H. Spencer Faircloth, USAF (ret.), is a born storyteller with a lifetime of tales to tell, secrets to share, and a fresh, first-hand perspective on the people and events that shaped the American Century." -Beacon Reviews Born in rural Georgia in 1929, Henry Spencer Faircloth's distinguished twenty-four-year career in the United States Air Force would take him a long way from his roots working as a soda jerk in his dad's drugstore, but he would never forget the vital life lessons he learned growing up during lean Depression and tense war years. Working several jobs, including watermelon inspector, to put himself through college, Spencer enlisted in the USAF as a basic airman in 1950. After completing OCS, he was commissioned as an officer and began a career that would include postwar rebuilding efforts in Europe, training airmen on two continents to help win the Space Race, serving on the faculty of the University of Pittsburgh, and writing letters for Presidents Johnson and Nixon. Faircloth's distinguished military career would culminate in a presidential appointment as executive director of the jobs for veterans' committee, another globe-spanning vocation that introduced Spencer to a plethora of powerbrokers and history makers in politics, the military, business, and entertainment. Along the way, Spencer married the woman of his dreams, Mary, who would be his best buddy and boon companion for fifty-two years. After retiring from the USAF in 1974, Lt. Col. Faircloth served as assistant vice president at the Equitable Life Assurance Society, spent more than a decade as a licensed real estate broker in New York City, and worked in real estate development in California, Kentucky, Virginia, and Florida. His work in the Sunshine State included serving as VP and GM of the development of Freedom Plaza, a continuing care facility in Sun City Center, Florida. After eighteen years as first vice president and trust officer for SunTrust Bank, Spencer retired for the third time. He continues to serve his community on various nonprofit boards, teaches seminars, and gives talks related to his military and business careers. "For an old country boy from South Georgia, I never dreamed of all the adventures my journey through life would produce-from Leesburg High School to postwar Europe to the Oval Office of the White House. Along the way, I discovered the secret to success is to learn whatever you can and look for ways to help. That approach to life has carried me across the world and back more times than I can count and allowed me to work with people who have, literally, changed the world. I feel blessed to have lived this life, and I hope my stories are an equal blessing to you."

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Xlibris US
• Seitenzahl: 214
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. April 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781503555327
• Artikelnr.: 52593672