Orville Redenbacher is one of the most inspirational people in the 20th century for many reasons. Orville is a local icon to Indiana. Orville Redenbacher was born in the small farm town of Brazil Indiana. One of the most inspirational things about Orville’s success story is how he grew his company from selling popcorn kernels out of the back of his car to a multimillion dollar household name.
Orville was born on a farm in Brazil Indiana in 1907; growing up, Orville was active in the local 4H chapter. At the young age of 12 Orville followed his passion of popcorn and started selling popping corn he grew himself. This became his business which paid for his college. Orville Redenbacher not only earned a Bachelor of Science in agriculture at Purdue, but he was also on the Purdue track team. He then worked as a Vigo County Farm Bureau extension agent in Terre Haute, Indiana. Orville also ran a successful fertilizer company which made him wealthy. It wasn’t until about sixteen years after going to college that the name Orville Redenbacher hit supermarket shelves in 1944.
In 1965 Orville Redenbacher and his business partner Charles Bowman worked hard to perfect their perfect popcorn hybrid. In 1951 they bought George F. Chester and Son seed corn plant near the city of Valparaiso, Indiana. They named the company “Chester Hybrids”. When asked about making the plant Orville stated “We dried continuously day and night. We had no efficient way to do it, so we built this new popcorn plant” (Orville Redenbacher). Orville and his partner tried tens of thousands of different strains of popping corn before settling on a hybrid they named “RedBow”. The first inspirational about Orville was his persistence, hard work, and dedication. His hard w...
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...was in 1992, he created the SmartPop® which is 94% fat free. This was very popular with healthy eaters, and people on diets. Sadly on September 19, 1995 Orville suffered a heart attack and died in Coronado, California. ConAgra Foods made a statement towards Orville’s death they stated that:”Orville’s lifetime passion for bringing family and friends together through the best popcorn will never be forgotten” (About our history). His death was a tremendous blow to his family, and supporters who watched him grow his company. The third inspirational thing about Orville Redenbacher was how loyal he was to his customers. Orville once stated “Every once in a while someone will mail me a single popcorn kernel that didn’t pop, I’ll get out a fresh kernel, tape it to a piece of paper and mail it back to them.”(Orville Redenbacher). Orville’s legacy will never be forgotten.
O’Hara was born in Chicago Illinois in 1913. There, she initially lived a happy life as the daughter of strict Catholic parents. She was a beautiful Irish woman with fair skin and dark eyes and hair. Dazzled by jewels and gorgeous clothing, O’Hara fell into the oldest profession. Becoming accustomed to fast money, she left home and went to San Francisco. A few years later in mid-1938 she took what she learned and moved to Hawaii to make money.
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The story of maize domestication is not only an interesting topic to us today, but an impressive realization on how hard it was for people living thousands of years ago to find food for themselves. The people living in modern day Mexico eight thousand, seven hundred years ago found a crop that was not much more than a stick with small pods that could be pried off for a small reward of nutrients. However, with that plant they created one of the most useful foods today because of thousands of years of artificial breeding and domestication. Maize is an extremely useful crop that is easy to grow, and gives giant harvests thanks to the experimentation and instinct of our ancestors, and the act of artificial selection over the passage of time.
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