Boy gets ‘special day’ at TPC Wakefield

As seen in Raleigh News & Observer – May 20, 2010
This was a special Wish that I helped grant in 2010 for Nathan. I began working on this Wish in 2009 after contacting John Inman, UNC’s golf coach. John called his contacts at Titleist and arranged to get new golf clubs made for Nathan and provided contact information at TPC in Raleigh. Michael Thomas, TPC Director of Sales, and Marta Bierbaum at Make A Wish were an absolute joy to work and truly made this a “Wow” Wish!

Chile

Me with the Arancibia family, Hector, Paulita, Erika Valparaiso, Chile in 1981 During the summer of 1981, as a rising junior at Boca Raton High School, I applied to be an exchange student with American Field Service, or AFS. I was accepted into the program and...

Nicaragua

I traveled to Nicaragua in 1986, during the Contra War. This was another proxy war between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. On one side of the conflict were Nicaragua’s Sandinista government, Soviet puppets or sympathizers. On the other were the rebels, known as...

Ecuador

Galapagos Islands, Ecuador, 1995 Country Information: In Ecuador, there are roughly 16 million Ecuadorians in a country slightly smaller than Nevada. The capital is Quito which is situated at the base of a volcano, making the city prone to earthquakes! In fact the...