Enjoying a little personal privilege this month as our family celebrates a milestone birthday.
It’s our son Brian’s 60th. His mom and I are still getting used to that number.
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We were just in the second year of our marriage and eagerly awaiting his arrival, which would make us first-time parents, along with our mothers and fathers becoming first-time grandparents.
The next generation had arrived, and like any other couple, we could only imagine what lay ahead.
His first steps were a big deal as he performed them from the front edge of a sofa while standing between his great-grandparents in South Carolina. Today that reupholstered sofa can be found in his Arlington office.
His future career actually began as a student at Gunn Junior High School when the faculty there got their first video camera. It came without good instructions, so someone would have to determine how to use it.
Brian, having experienced one at home, raised his hand and declared, I can do it! His offer was accepted. So teachers sent for him to run the “new” technology, and he became Gunn’s
“video guy.”
Next, along with a fellow student at Martin High School, they began a venture offering
video services for, according to their business cards, “weddings, graduations and births.” They found customers for all their work except the “births”… LOL.
Upon graduation, he enrolled at Baylor University in the business school, at my suggestion. That effort lasted long enough to establish a foundation, but what he badly wanted was a degree in telecommunications where he could follow his own dream.
And so he did, and what a perfect decision it was for his future success. As a pioneer in high-definition television production, here’s how he describes some of his work on his website:
“We have been producing programming since 1995. We specialize in documentaries, national and international auto racing, car shows, concerts, small sporting events, and entertainment. We have worked with broadcasters all over the world including Discovery, PBS, BBC, NHK, etc.”
Along the way, he has produced video stories for visitors centers in national parks, the Corvette National Museum, the Bullock Texas State History Museum, Route 66 venues, and various national and international automobile museums.
Some of his productions have been marketed via DVD series on national parks, Route 66, museums worldwide, and racing. On his website, greenehdproductions, VIMEO is featuring 159 of his videos.
Right now he is working for clients to produce ultra-high-definition television series of a dozen or more episodes. That work has taken him and his crews all over the world to capture the raw material and then many days and weeks in the editing suites inside his Texas and North Carolina offices to produce the final shows.
His office shelves are crowded with more than 20 Telly Awards that honor excellence in video and television work. The Tellys were founded
in 1979.
It probably would be no surprise to know he is quite tech-savvy – saves us lots of calls to support centers to fix things in this life of ever-increasing reliance on technology that constantly grows more complicated.
Notwithstanding all of his success, if you asked him what his most blessed days were, he would quickly say it was when he and his wife were working with the adoption agency 23 years ago.
That agency made arrangements with a Russian adoption center where they brought then 9-month-old Ashley home to complete our family. American families adopted over 60,000 children from Russia during that time period; but, though a little prejudiced, we believe she’s the very best!
If you read all of this, thank you for joining our birthday celebration for our son’s 60th. We could not be more proud of his accomplishments, his character, and the devotion he demonstrates daily toward his extended family.
