Friday, November 20, 2015

Dads art show at nwc

Northwest college hosted at art show for dad in October.  Kandace and I drove down to see his lights, listen to him give a short presentation and show our support!!  There are so many incredible stories to go along with these lights, I'll share a couple.  I asked dad to record all these stories so I can have a copy.  Anyway, dad started as an Industrial design major in college, but then decided on art (I can't remember what made him switch?) but he tells the story of what a failure he started out as in his art classes.  He says he didn't do well with any of the projects they were doing, he hated getting "messy" which is what a lot of art projects are.  He says when the class would complete an art assignment, they'd all put their "masterpieces" on the chalk board and the professor would go down the line critiquing the art work and would flick the bad ones to the floor and step on them.  Dad says his always ended up on the floor, until one day the class was assigned a project using paper.  Dad went home and came up with something pretty cool, and when he brought it to class, his teacher said, "Roland, I think you've got something here" and he told dad he could spend the rest of the semester working on his paper projects and years and years later, dad has a successful, world wide business called Interfold that has helped support him and his family.  I'll just say that I've always been impressed how dad always includes Heavenly Father in the whole process.  Dad has always acknowledged Heavenly Father in helping him to be successful and to be able to support his family.



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