George F. Gowen III, Neighbor

An Introduction to George F. Gowen

<b>Birthday</b>: February 19

<b>Bio: </b>Harry S. Truman was still President when Mr. Gowen was born in a small, New England city most noted for its prizefighters. He followed a family legacy of broadcasting and broadcast performance but found writing and producing for radio and television to be his most exciting and successful early direction. He often explained that he wrote about life, thirty seconds at a whack.

   Mr. Gowen refined his career in broadcast advertising and marketing while working in several major U.S. cities including Detroit, Michigan, Phoenix, Arizona, Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania, Boston, Massachusetts, and New York City, New York. It was in New York City that he created his own advertising group with an emphasis on marketing children’s toys.

   Then, in a career move understood only by Mr. Gowen’s  “inner self”  he undertook a new direction entirely, spending nearly two decades in the then nascent, computer driven, information technology field.

   International investment was the business focus of the company at which Mr. Gowen held various titles including: Information Officer, Assistant Vice President of Information and Technology, and Vice President of Information Technology, over a period of successive years.

   Finally, this most recent decade has found Mr. Gowen refusing to ”ease into retirement” and instead, investing his time and extensive knowledge of the art and technology of media production as a volunteer with Scotch Plains Television and simultaneously nurturing two LLCs, both of which are audio/video production companies serving distinctly different clientele.

Now, believing in the power of our new internet based media, and drawing on over six decades of participation in and observation of <b><i>United States Post War Industrial Growth and the Baby Boom Years</i></b>, Mr. Gowen is bringing new focus to life’s vexations through a continuing series of provocative essays and ‘fictionalized’ pieces, each guided by his considerable experience and insight.

  As the author and person solely responsible for the content of these works, so long as they remain unedited by others, and as one who would assuredly eschew obfuscation, Mr. Gowen humbly submits each of the essays that follow.

<b>A Brief and Important Note:</b> …On Pace and the Use of Ellipses…  

   The writing style that I use is derived from years of scripting the words that others will speak. My texts can conjure up positive images of everything imaginable.

   Simultaneously, I‘ve had to guide the voices of high-powered (high paid?), professional talent to articulate a message with the emphasis, inflection and delivery we desired. So, drawing on years of experience, I chose to adapt a very old, radio broadcast scripting technique… yes, ellipses…

   This writer will use them (it), not to indicate missing text, but rather to guide the reader or speaker in the overall pace and pauses of the written piece and the necessary emphasis on fact… joy… irony, agony, insight, interest, futility… success… I could go on…

   So please… relax, get comfortable, ignore traditional guidelines of ‘blogging’, and enjoy the bonus input of my ellipses as I contour language to more accurately reflect my message…

   This is Life… enjoy the gift.