Rosamond Nkansah Police trailblazer
Nkansah was the first female police officer in Ghana.
From This is True for 28 February 2021
Volume 9
2020-2021
Bruce Meyers Buggy designer
Meyers invented the first good-looking, fiberglass body dune buggy that people actually wanted.
From This is True for 21 February 2021
Rowena Morrill Book artist
A painter, Rowena specialized in illustrating book covers.
From This is True for 14 February 2021
Jamie Tarses TV producer
“Ms. Tarses seemed to speak the language of that coveted audience. She had what is known in TV programming parlance as ‘taste’.”
From This is True for 7 February 2021
J.D. Power Satisfaction broker
Power’s name became synonymous with customer satisfaction and quality.
From This is True for 31 January 2021
Mark Wilson TV magician
He created the first-ever TV magic show.
From This is True for 24 January 2021
Dale Baer Animator
Born in Denver, Colo., at 8 years old Baer saw Disney’s animated Peter Pan, and vowed that someday, he’d work for Disney. He attended the Chouinard Art Institute (which Roy and Walt Disney helped merge with the Los Angeles Conservatory of Music to establish the California Institute of the Arts, or “CalArts”), and in 1970 took … Read more
From This is True for 17 January 2021
Michael Apted Director
A TV and film director, Apted got the job of a lifetime.
From This is True for 10 January 2021
William Link Mystery writer
One of the few writers to be inducted into the Television Academy Hall of Fame.
From This is True for 3 January 2021
James E. Gunn Grand Master
His second book was “one of the very best fictional portrayals of contact with extraterrestrial intelligence ever written,” said Carl Sagan.
From This is True for 27 December 2020