Dr. Thomas Ray Hensley

Tom was my first "mentor". As the starting quaretrback for who i was the back up, he took me under his wing in the Fall of 1960 and, with gentle advice, but more effectively, leading by example, he guided me through the tumult of adolescence. Better yet, he had a driver's license and a car, and a girlfriend (Jane Robertson) who was a close friend of the incredible woman who became my wife, Pat Meredith; so we "double dated" for a year until i was old enough to drive on my own. A great...