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Paulette Jiles has worn many hats, but the one she seems to like best these days is a cowboy hat. Paulette spent eight years as a journalist for the Canadian Broadcasting Company in a small town in Northern Ontario, which she wrote about in her book North Spirit. She is an award winning poet, winning the Governor General’s award for her book Celestial Navigations, and her novel, Enemy Women is due out shortly, but her pride and passion is training riders and horses.

Sarah Jones, massage therapist. To pay her way to become a dietician Sarah Jones learned the art of massage, but working as a dietician didn’t offer the same rewards, and she left the field to devote herself to helping her clients through touch. Her current passion is the Bowen technique through which she has provided relief to clients with chronic problems that medicine has not been able to cure.

Carol Kaye’s cheerful disposition and positive attitude makes her an effective retail businesswoman. Her ability to work with her siblings and mother in a successful family fur business attests to her skill.

Gordon King is a talented doctor who teaches residents and provides care to patients who are hospitalized. His precise hand and eye make him an accomplished watercolorist as well. Gordon seeks risk and excitement. When he attended the Air Force Academy his ambition was to become an astronaut. Handling matters of life and death on a daily basis make his original dream and motivation insignificant.

Jeff Kleiser, founded Kleiser-Walzyk Construction Company with his wife Diane. With his computer graphic skills and her sculpting ability they developed synthespians, a term that they coined. Jeff’s career has evolved from computer graphics for Hollywood movies, theme parks and commercials, until the present in which he considers himself a director, developing not only the graphics, but the content for the productions

Dr. Campbell Laird Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania, School of Engineering and Applied Science, an expert on fatigue, became interested in why airplanes fail when as a boy growing up in Scotland, the U.K. mobilized to find the answer to some spectacular airplane crashes. In addition to teaching, he consults and serves as an expert on fatigue in materials as far ranging as kitchen utensils, autos, prosthetic devises for humans, and, fulfilling an interest piqued in childhood, airplanes.

Dr. Amy Freeman Lee is an artist, educator, humanist, founder of the San Antonio Symphony and the San Antonio Watercolor Society, an active humanist, she is on the national board of the Humane Society.

Dr. Howie Lokietz known as Dr. Howie, practiced pediatrics until he had a heart transplant. After the heart transplant, although he could no longer see patients, he continued to counsel parents through an Internet website devoted to answering parents' questions about the health of their children.

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