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“Alexander, Caesar, Napoleon, you all had great moments, but you never tasted the supreme triumph; you were never a farm boy riding in from the fields on a bulging rack of new-mown hay.” - Grant Wood
In the course of my working life, I have been gifted with the opportunities to live in many different parts of the United States.  As a teen, I and a buddy who I grew up with decided to leave our roots in Iowa and hitchhike to southern California.  The motivation behind this was to find temporary jobs that would enable us to earn enough to book passage to Hawaii where we would work on a sugar cane plantation managed by the father of my buddy’s college schoolmate.  We never made it to Hawaii.  And after some time our paths diverged.  My growing-up mate decided to return to college and since I had already flunked out of my first year of college that was not to be the fork in my road.
I remained for several years in California pursuing a business career with some s...

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Gerald (Jerry) Rowles, Ph.D. BIO: 1966-2016 Business Career Highlights: Director of Purchasing Merle Norman Cosmetics Los Angeles, CA General Manager Shelby American Playa Del Rey, CA Assistant Director Aspen Chamber & Visitors Bureau Aspen, CO Regional Sales Manager E.R. Carpenter Co. San Antonio, TX General Manager Swan Packing, Inc. Des Moines, IA (Photography Day Job) Photography Career Highlights: Magazine Covers & Feature Photos, Prettiest Farm Photo Assignments, Calendars, Gift Cards, Interior Fine Art Prints Our Iowa Magazine (the ‘Arizona Highways’ for Iowa) Editors, Jerry & Larry Wiebel Publisher, Roy Reiman Ames, IA Kendall Hunt Publishing Global Science Text Project Coordinator, Carrie A. Maro Dubuque, IA Draft Horse Journal Editor, Lynn Telleen Waverly, IA Saylorville Lake Project Visitors Center Des Moines, IA University Of Iowa Oberman Animal Studies Iowa City, IA The Iowan Magazine Editor, Dan Weeks Publisher, Pioneer Communications Des Moines, IA Photoworks Publications Ann Arbor, MI
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