If You Can’t Live In The Place You Love, Love The Place You Live*
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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...
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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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