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| Name: |
Al Hicks |
| Club/Company: |
Jacobsen, a division of Textron |
| Position: |
Territory sales manager |
| Years in Industry: |
Started working at Willow Creek Country Club in 1974 on maintenance crew, the rest is water over the dam. |
| Previous Employers: |
Willow Creek, distributor representative for John Deere, among other things. |
| College: |
Catawba Valley Community College and North Carolina State University. |
| Hobbies/Interests: |
Fishing, fishing, fishing, boating, golf - that's why I like it in Hilton Head. |
| My Favorites: |
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| Movie: |
The Quiet Man, Chisholm, and any John Wayne movie except "The Cowboys." |
| Music: |
The Eagles, Jimmy Buffett and Jerry Jeff Walker. |
| Meal: |
Eating it right now - A New York strip and raw oysters with a beer. |
Funniest thing
that's ever
happened on the job: |
"I could tell you about how I almost burned down a brand new maintenance building in Charlotte doing a cookout or about two superintendents and me whitewater rafting the Russell Fork River. But the best was when I worked with James T. (Tommy) Hendrick, who was the assistant superintendent, equipment manager, spray tech and the king of pranks at Willow Creek. Every day he would show up at 11:20am in his 1974 Chevy luv truck (clutch-driven). He would go and clean up in the restroom for his lunch date with his wife, Cathey. One day I blocked his rear wheels on the luv truck. Can you hear the RPM's on that four-cylinder engine yet?? He came around the corner ready to go mano-a-mano saying, "You're mine now!" The only thing that saved me was Tommy's brother in law, Junior Hall, who sat across from me with tears in his eyes. We were all laughing!" |
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