Dick retired from the U. S. Navy Supply Corps (as a Commander having been selected for promotion to Captain) in January 1995 after completing 22 years of active duty service. He is from Jacksonville, Florida. Receiving his commission as a U. S. Naval officer through the NROTC program, he graduated in 1973 with a Bachelor of Arts from Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee. In December 1985 he earned a Master of Science in Management from the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California. Throughout his Naval career, he served in eleven commands - three of which were at sea – and one in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, requiring 10 relocations of his family. His final tour of duty was as the Executive Officer of the Fleet and Industrial Supply Center, Jacksonville, Florida located at Naval Air Station, Jacksonville. Subsequent to his military retirement, Dick worked with the Coggin Automotive Group, initially as Vice-President of CA Funding Ltd (conduit for handling floor plan financing for 13 dealerships), followed by Controller of the Coggin Honda dealership in Jacksonville, Florida. Following his work with Coggin, he served as Business Administrator on the staff of his church, Neptune Baptist Church, Neptune Beach, Florida.  In 2006, Dick and his wife, Margaret (Hooper of Nashville, TN) relocated from Atlantic Beach, Florida to their current home in Polo Fields, moving Margaret’s parents with them into their Terrace Level to care for them in their senior years. Dick has continued to manage the finance and business aspects for Margaret who has been self-employed as a Mary Kay Sales Director since 1987 and assisted with the care of her parents. From March through May 2009, Dick worked temporarily for the U. S. Department of Commerce 2010 Census in one of its early operations, and in October 2009 was appointed as the Local Census Office Manager, opening that office located at 480 North Main Street, Ste 204, Alpharetta, with responsibility for the geographic region of North Fulton County (north of the Chattahoochee River) and all of Forsyth and Cherokee Counties. A link to a story on the local Census Office in the Forsyth County News is at: http://www.forsythnews.com/news/article/4349/

Garth will talk about major turning points in his life and how they were triggered and a bit about the Sounds of Sawnee Concert Band: http://www.soundsofsawnee.com, it's history and what it has meant to Garth to be a part of it. Garth has a BS degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Missouri (1957) and a Masters degree in Engineering Administration from Case Western Reserve in Cleveland, Ohio (1969). He worked in the Chemical Industry until 1977 and migrated into computer software programming with several entrepreneurial experiences in between. Garth and his wife of 50 years moved to Cumming in 2004 when he then dusted off his cornet and joined the Sounds of Sawnee Band.

Travis has extensive experience in digital and on-demand printing in statement production and direct marketing. Before joining One2One Communications, he served as Vice President of Sales for Wise Business Forms. While at Wise, Travis was instrumental in launching their integrated marketing campaign management strategy in the technology areas of web-to-print, targeted email campaigns, and personalized URL's. Prior to Wise, he served as President of GBS Document Solutions, a provider of document and information management services. Travis has over 29 years of management and operations experience in the print industry and holds a BA degree from the University of Georgia and JD degree in law from Woodrow Wilson. Travis will also talk about how he and his wife Becky dealt with the sudden death of their 12 year old son. He and Becky have lived in Polo since 2004.

Terry was born, raised and spent his first 35 years in Iowa. He graduated from the University of Iowa with a B.S. in Journalism, but decided as a senior that a career in journalism really wasn't that attractive (aka, not much money). Terry's first job out of college was selling life insurance (door to door), definitely a character-building experience he was only able to endure for two months. He then accepted an offer to join a Coors beer distributor as a public relations manager. The highlight of his time at Coors was that it allowed him to meet Kathy who eventually became his wife. Terry returned to school and earned a degree in computer programming. In 1985, he began his IT career as a programmer/analyst for Fisher Controls in Marshalltown, Iowa. In 1989, he joined Bandag, Inc., in Muscatine, Iowa as a systems analyst. In 1993, he was given the opportunity to get out of IT (and Iowa) and became the Human Resources manager for Bandag's largest manufacturing plant in Griffin, Ga. Three years later he was promoted to Operations Manager at the facility. In 1998, Terry accepted a promotion to return to IT (and to Iowa) and went back to Bandag's headquarters to manage the applications development group he'd left five years earlier. On October 30, 2001, and after 13 years with Bandag, Terry lost his job. After a 13-month job search, he and his family ended up back in Georgia, when he accepted his current position with Home Depot in December 2002. Though devastating at the time, Terry's job loss was the pivotal event in changing his life. Today Terry is a volunteer with Job Seekers which helps others through difficult job transitions. Terry has been married to Kathy for 26 years and they have three children, 24, 21 and 17 and a beautiful daughter in law.