“I didn’t think it’d go anywhere at first,” he once said. In many ways, I think he was the original Jed Clampett.”īefore long, his eight-year career as a local school teacher and assistant football coach was over. “Here’s this kid in the Carolina mountains, running around barefoot, selling Christmas wreaths, working hard like his father taught him. “It’s almost right out of the Mark Twain stories,” said long-ago marketing partner Allan Cohen. Or a struggling local high school science teacher who used his basic chemistry knowledge to strike gold. Or a summertime lifeguard in his adopted Daytona Beach, fresh out of the University of Tennessee, who saw countless bottles of Coppertone suntan lotion and thought, “I can do that!” Or a kid who first saw the Atlantic Ocean on a family vacation, immediately grew wide-eyed and vowed to someday return and never leave.
You could tell a rags-to-riches tale of a poor boy, from a dirt-poor family in the mountains of Asheville, N.C., who’d grow up to become rich and famous.
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"He showed us how to promote your product, but also have a great time while doing it," said Linda Kramer, a longtime Hawaiian Tropic associate who remained as one of two on the Rice payroll until the end.
"Loved and admired" for a truly American style of mixing work with pleasure.
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