Thomas ShipleyThomas Tom E. Shipley Jr. was born in Kingsport. Tennessee, on March 22, 1924. There, he attended K-12 and graduated from Dobyns-Bennett High School in 1942. He served in the U.S. Navy in WWII. He attended Virginia Polytechnic Institute, and in his jnior year, 1948, married Virginia Doane. He graduated with honours with a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering in 1950. Virginia and Tom had three children: Thomas Doane, Ardin Leigh (Moenaert), and Charles Barton-who survived only four days because of a blood deficiency which wasn't understood in 1957. Tom joined General Electric Company in 1950 as an engineer in training, served as a-c motor engineer, application engineer and product planner for numerical controls for machine tools - corporate and field sales -- and for quality information and test systems. He left GE in 1965 to become manager of numerically controlled (NC) machine sales for Monarch Machine Tool Company, was promoted to National Sales Manager for all products in 1968, and in 1973 left Monarch to become vice president of marketing for AA Cage, a Division of U 5. Industries. Inc. In 1976, he and his wife formed their own business company, and in 1977, he ended employment by others and began working in their own Machine Tool Sales Company -- a complete marketing service for metalworking manufacturers: marketing, consulting, formulation of marketing plans and implementation, including organization of internal and external field sales forces, publicity, sales aids and other promotional material. They worked with 28 different companies of record, large and small. During his entire career, he visited companies doing unusual work with machines, reviewed the projects, and wrote articles for trade publications. He developed movies for one client and later wrote a monthly article for seven years on technology advancements for a publication. In 1992, he started a new company, Shipley Marketing/Advertising/Sales to publish a cookbook and guide written with his wife, For the Good Times...The Best of Fifty Years and The Shipleys' Little Kitchen Guide; then, for a book in 2011 Man-Made Global Warming? It's Foolishness, followed by Why Government Can Never Fix A Down Economy and two booklets in 2014: the United States Free Market System...Different from All Others and Did You Know...The Fed Has Been Stealing Your Money? Read More Read Less