'Bye Willie - A Family Tale of Loyalty and Heartbreak

by Antoinette Ford

Overview

'Bye Willie is a true story of four children growing up near the railroad tracks in North Philadelphia in 1934. The story describes the love and unquestioned loyalty among the children of a large and close knit family. It describes the strength of family ties and the consequences of true and total loyalty when children do not understand the long term impact of their decisions. The story takes place during an era when there was no television, limited radio, very few cars and communities communicated by word of mouth, mostly just to the extent of their neighborhoods. The story of Willie and his three cousins is still told at family reunions and whenever relatives gather and reminiscence.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940044730434
Publisher:	Antoinette Ford
Publication date:	07/19/2012
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	383 KB

About the Author

Antoinette Ford's professional experiences include entrepreneurship, corporate executive, Presidential appointee with Senate confirmation and Oceanographer. Currently, Toni leads the Double Nickels Theatre Company and heads a newly established ebooks publishing enterprise, Double Dutch Digital Publishing

In June 2002, Toni was granted a patent for an antiglare product. In 1998 NASA granted Ms. Ford a patent license to commercialize large flat panel displays and the company she founded to undertake this work was the first sponsored by NASA in a high technology incubator. Between 1985 and 1998 she grew another technology company from start-up to a multi-million dollar operation before selling it to seek other challenges. As a corporate executive, Toni was a plant manager at a major manufacturing company and responsible for a $60 million pressed metal, metal fabricating facility.

Inside the federal government, Toni was appointed by the President and confirmed by the US Senate as the Administrator of the Agency for International Development Near East Bureau with budget responsibility for more than $2.5 billion. In this capacity she managed the multi-year development of large-scale projects throughout North Africa, the Middle East and Europe. Ms. Ford's first professional career was as an Oceanographer.

Most recently Antoinette Ford was celebrated as one of the Top 100 Minority Business Executives in a six state region of the United States. The States of Maryland, Virginia, Delaware, Washington, DC, Ohio and Pennsylvania along with Southwest Airways, State Farm Insurance Company and a host of other sponsors granted this honor.

Toni holds an MBA degree from Harvard Business School, was a Fellow at the Harvard University Institute of Politics, holds an MS degree from The American University, and was a National Science Foundation Fellow in Oceanography at Stanford University. She earned her BS degree from Chestnut Hill College in Philadelphia, PA. She was also selected as a White House Fellow.