Rodney L. VanHoose was born in Springfield, Ohio in 1948. He received a B.S. in Education from Bowling Green State University in 1970. He thereafter taught Industrial Arts and was Varsity Golf Coach for two of his three years, at Urbana High School, sold Life Insurance for The Equitable Life Assurance Society, for two years in the Dayton, Ohio Agency, then joined American Greetings Corporation of Cleveland, Ohio in July, 1975. After thirty years at AG, as a salesman, sales manager, Director of Communications and Executive Director of Marketing Services, he retired in July 2005. He married Janet VanHoose in 1970, has two children, Rex and Holly, and five grandchildren - Catherine, Vance, Elizabeth, Ryan and Emma. After living in central Ohio, Cleveland, Ohio, Plano, Texas, St. Louis, Missouri and Chicago, Illinois, he returned to Texas in 1989, and now lives in the city of Frisco, Texas with 'Jan' and his French Bulldog, Ziggy.