The History
The Commercial
I was in the middle of a staff meeting when the phone rang. On the other end was a New York City executive with the J. Walter Thompson (JWT) advertising agency, one of the largest in the world at the time. He was curious if I would like to appear in a television commercial featuring Snurfing…
The Dawning
My family moved to New Jersey from Alabama in November of 1961. I knew nothing of deep snow and winter activities and I had never experienced either. Fast forward three years, to the winter of 1964, when my new friends invited me to tag along to the local sledding hill in town…