William B Foulk

A Grain of Sand: the Autobiographical Adventures of William B. Foulk William B Foulk

This book is about the often exciting, frequently hazardous, always interesting life of William B. Foulk, the author. Upon return from the WW II, his father deserted his family, and they quickly drifted into poverty. Basketball coaches filled the void of not having a father, and Foulk became skilled enough in the game to be recruited by basketball coaches as early as his sophomore year in high school. However, his ambition was to be a Marine. After serving in Korea with the 1st Marine Division as a radio operator, he returned to the United States to become the radio operator on the Commondant of the Marine Corps, General Lemuel C. Shephard's airplane. After being a paratrooper, college student and a non-NBA professional basketball player, he went back into the service where he went from a private to a warrant officer in seven years. After serving and experiencing combat in Vietnam, Foulk became a teaching tennis professional where he established personal realationships with a bevy of politically important people and celebrities, including: Johnny Carson, Elton John, Joan Kennedy, Jessie Owens, John Erlickman, of Watergate noteriety; and many others. Foulk attended college, became an international caliber runner, a member of Nike's Elete Runner's group, won the Boston Marathon for his age group, won seven national titles, won two silver medals in the Masters' Track and Field World Championship. Foulk became a graduate student at Dartmouth College, a school teacher, a school principal in Alaska (where he narrowly escaped being eaten by a grizzily bear.); then to China where he taught in Shanghai, Beijing, Nanning, Guilin, and Kunming. Later in the Philippines and Thailand where he now resides half of each year, raising premium bananas and writing. He is currently working on a novel, Rogers, Rogers, and Rogers: Attorneys at Law.