Sample Entry

Famous Kid : Colin Powell

Mother's Name : Maud Ariel McKoy Powell

Mama said... "You've got to go into engineering; that's where the money is man."

After he had accepted his Second Lieutenant commission and departed on a Greyhound bus, his mother was heard saying to her departing son, "Do your three years, come home, we'll get a job, we'll be all right." Powell's biographer, David Roth, claims it was his frugal mother, a Jamaican immigrant, who "pressed her son to achievement and success," even if it wasn't as an engineer. Years later when Powell was promoted to general, he modestly informed his mother with the words, the President said that I actually get to be a general." Roth observed that twenty one years in uniform, Maud Powell...

SOURCE:

Sacred Honor, Colin Powell, The Inside Account of his Life and Triumphs, by David Roth (Harper Collins, 1993)

Entries in the chapter on Ambition include:

Milton Berle	Booker T.Washington	Zsa Zsa Gabor	James Whistler
Lou Gehrig	Joan Lunden	Henry Fonda	Dan Rather
Dan Rather	Gene Autry	Joan Rivers	Norman V. Peale
Shelly Winters	Reba McEntire	Helen Keller	Douglas MacArthur

Courage

Entries in the chapter on Courage include the following:

Martin Luther King	Henry Kissinger	Jackie Robinson	Chris Burke
Nelson Mandela	Geraldine Ferraro	Andrew Jackson	Hans Christian Anderson
	Carl Sandburg	Sojourner Truth

Devotion

Entries in the chapter on Devotion include the following:

Hume Cronyn	Emmitt Smith	Bill Cosby	Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Dan Jansen	Dr. Charles Mayo	Larry King	Roger Clemens
Elvis Presley	Jack Benny	Sigmond Freud	Duke Ellington
Leonard Bernstein	Sally Jessy Raphael	Bill Russell	Judy Garland

Faith

Entries in the chapter on Faith include the following:

Sting	Mahatma Gandhi	Marian Anderson	Robert Louis Stevenson
Mohammad Ali	Dolly Parton	Naomi Judd	Johnny Cash
Loretta Lynn	Mother Theresa	Kathie Lee Gifford	Danny Thomas
	Judy Garland	Diana Ross

Perspective

Entries in the chapter on Perspective include the following:

Rachael Carson	W. C. Fields	Doris Day	Babe Didrikson Zaharias
John Cleese	Ronald Reagan	Jack Lemmon	Shirley Temple Black
Eric Sevareid	Bob Hope	Harry S. Truman	Laura Ingalls Wilder
David Brenner	Will Rogers	Meryl Streep	Norman Rockwell

Responsibilty

Entries in the chapter on Responsibilty include the following:

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	Dr. Benjamin Spock	Lauren Bacall	Patsy Cline
John Fitzgerald Kennedy	Mark Twain	Warrick Dunn	Louisa May Alcott
David Letterman	Barbara Bush	Barbara Lavallee	Houdini

Self-discipline

Sample Entry

Famous Kid : Bill Gates

Mother's Name : Mary Maxwell Gates

Mary Maxwell Gates knew that her son, the future chairman of Microsoft, was very bright. By the age of nine he had already read the entire World Book Encyclopedia. Trey, as his parents called him, routinely chided them for their intellectum." He spent a lot of time in quiet contemplation, and when urged by his parents to be ready when they were going somewhere, would often reply, "I'm thinking." Mary said that Bill was a person who was independent from the time he was seven years old. We were not controlling his life in any way. We were just trying to hold things together and have as much influence as possible. In 1968, when Bill was thirteen, his school got an ASR33 Teletype machine which intrigued the future Microsoft founder. He quickly learned what made it work and when the school was later connected to a DEC PDP10 computer through the efforts of a University of Washington Computer Center group that called themselves C-Cubed, Gates had found his niche. It was like 'manna from heaven' to Bill when the group offered free computer time to Seattle high school students willing to help out with programming. Applying his earlier motherly message of self-discipline to his new found interest, Bill immersed himself in C-Cubed, often sneaking out late at night to go to the computer center. His mother often wondered why it was so hard for him to get up in the morning. Bill did fulfill his mother's wish that he go to college. He enrolled at Harvard, but soon, left to start a software company. Bill did return to Harvard and completed six semesters before making his softwar........

SOURCE:

GATES by Stephen Manes and Paul Andrews, (Touchstone by Simon and Schuster, 1993)

Other entries in the chapter on Self-Discipline include:

Dwight D. Eisenhower	Marie Antoinette	Henry Ford	Christa McAuliffe
Ginger Rogers	Jimmy Carter	Nathaniel Hawthorne	Margaret Thatcher
Albert Einstein	Dale Carnegie	Thomas Edison	George Gershwin
	Tom Seaver	Martina Navatilova

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