ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Special dedication to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, on behalf of humanity.

Special dedication to the Ford Foundation, for education, learning and wisdom.

Special dedication to the Carnegie Foundation, for community and cultural enrichment.

Remembrances to some of the icons and legends whom I knew and worked with: Steve Allen, Herb Alpert, Mary Kay Ash, Frankie Avalon, Burt Bacharach, James Baker, Malcolm C. Baldridge, Lucille Ball, Peter Bijur, Dr. Michael Debakey, Tony Bennett, Chuck Berry, Peter Bijur, Sonny & Cher Bono, Walter Brennan, George R. Brown, Harold Burson, George & Barbara Bush, Glen Campbell, Al Capp, Diahann Carroll, Johnny Cash, John Chancellor, Winston Churchill, Dick Clark, John & Nellie Connally, Mike Connors, Dr. Denton Cooley, Howard Cosell, Stephen Covey, Walter Cronkite, Philip B. Crosby, Walt Cunningham, Jimmy Dean, Michael Dell, W. Edwards Deming, Roy Disney, Fats Domino, Hugh Downs, Peter Drucker, Michael Eisner, Duke Ellington, Farrah Fawcett, Ella Fitzgerald, Eva Gabor, John Glenn, Bob Gooding, Max Gotchman, Billy Graham, Merv Griffin, Andy Griffith, Dr. Norman Hackerman, Florence Henderson, Audrey Hepburn, Don Herbert (Mr. Wizard), Gerald Hines, Ima Hogg, Bob Hope, Ron Howard, Lee Iacocca, Lady Bird Johnson, Lyndon B. Johnson, Chuck Jones, Barbara Jordan, Larry Kane, Robert Keeshan (Captain Kangaroo), Don Knotts, Keith Landers (Johnny Dee), Brenda Lee, Jack Lord, Ben Love, Clare Boothe Luce, J. Willard Marriott, Dean Martin, Bill Mauldin, Glenn McCarthy, Rod McKuen, Marshall McLuhan, Ed McMahon, Harris & Carroll Masterson, George & Cynthia Mitchell, Mary Tyler Moore, Bill Moyers, Joe Namath, Rick Nelson, Dino Nicandros, Earl Nightingale, Roy Orbison, Patti Page, Fess Parker, Bert Parks, Little Richard Penniman, Tom Peters, Elvis Presley, Andre Previn, Vincent Price, Cactus Pryor, Dan Rather, Maureen Reagan, Robert Reed, Burt Reynolds, Nelson Riddle, Anthony Robbins, Kenny Rogers, Eleanor Roosevelt, Diana Ross, Darrell Royal, Colonel Harland Sanders, Vidal Sassoon, Peter Senge, Frank Sinatra, Robert Smith (Buffalo Bob), Steven Spielberg, Roger Staubach, Gale Storm, Ed Sullivan, Danny Thomas, Mel Torme, Jack Valenti, Gore Vidal, Barbara Walters, Dottie Walters, Dionne Warwick, Jack Welch, Lawrence Welk, Gus & Lyndall Wortham, Robert Young.

Also, acknowledgements to Imad Abdullah, Tom Arbuckle, Jim Bardwell, Robert Battle, Ann Dunphy Becker, Betty Bezemer, Judy Blake, Tom Britton, Sarah Buffington, Tony Castiglie, Glenn Chisman, George Connelly, Mike Contello, Rob Cook, John Cruise, Jenna & Michael Devers, Louise Dewey, Deborah Duncan, Dr. Ron Evans, Mike Flory, Felix Fraga, Yomi Garnett, Martin Gaston, Douglas Gehrman, Sonia Guimbellot, John Harris, Phillip Hatfield, Royce Heslep, Michael Hick, Mary Higginbotham, Richard Huebner, Susan & Robert Hutsko, Hiett Ives, Chris Kelso, Soulat Khan, Jon King, Dan Krohn, Kirby Lammers, Nancy Lauterbach, Torre Lee, Steve & Barbara Levine, Mike Linares, Lissa Lundberg, Jackie Lyles, Ben Madry, Hon. Tammy Collins Markee RCC, Aymeric Martinola, Wayne Mausbach, Kathleen McKeague, Eugene Mikle, Julie Moore, Phil Morabito, Howard Partridge, Dan Parsons, Monte Pendleton, Tom Perrone, Anthony Pizzitola, Travis Posey, Tamra Battle Rogers, Donna & Dennis Rooney, Mike Rosen, Rob Rowland, Rita Santamaria, Rick Schissler, Jack Shabot, John Solis, Al Spinks, Bill Spitz, Maggie Steber, Rod Steinbrook, Gail Stolzenburg, George Strake, Jane Moore Taylor, Rich Tiller, Linda Toyota, Kathryn van der Pol, Cameron Waldner, Louie Werderich, Kathryn C. Wheat, Robert Willeby, Melissa Williams, Ronald Earl Wilsher, Tom Ziglar.