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HomeTown Hero I
Secret Origin
Secret Origin
A healthy baby boy is is born to a single mother at Mt. Carmel East Hospital in the quiet predawn hours in the summer of 1956. The baby grew into a tall young man, an only child in a very large extended family.T. Wayne Gatewood lived in a large brick house in a west-side neighborhood known as The Hilltop (He would grow up there and move out some forty one years later). After his cousins, aunts, nieces and nephews, Mother and Grandmother and finally his three grown children moved on and time came for T. Wayne and his wife to find a smaller nest to settle into.
T. Wayne's formative years were filled with the contrast of the ugly fallout of civil rights to living with family and friends that acted as a buffer as mentors, companions, elders, who provided a profound love and handed him the mighty walking stick of the families traditions. T.Wayne's early journey included eating with his Grandmother Lizzie who prepared a meal they shared during the school lunch period, the fascination of learning carpentry from his Uncle Nate with the intoxicating smell of fresh wood and the skill and ease that several family members handled tools and created something from nothing. T.Wayne learned what it meant to be a Gatewood despite being called a clumsy slow learner and being chased home by small groups of white men looking to act out the toxic racism that fueled their rage and violence. It was a chaotic and confusing moment in history to navigate the choppy waters of adolescence. It is said that " A boy without a father is like a ship without a compass."
Superpowers
T.Wayne got involved with football and track at Columbus West High School and the tutoring at home and school took this slow learner to West Virgina University to study business and play offensive tackle in the 1975 Peach Bowl under legendary Coach Bobby Bowden. Wayne and his young wife both work to live in a small apartment with their baby girl. His scholarship was just enough to sustain his needs and money for rent, food, diapers and other essentials came from part-time work. T. Wayne graduated from W.V.U. with a business degree, a new ability to "learn how to learn" and a baby boy on the way. Along the way Wayne uncovered a natural talent for working with young people, an entrepreneurial mind, a love of professional speaking, training and a passion for carpentry. The moment these elements of his true self converged THE BUILDER emerged to give his hands, heart and head to crafting a Vision of a world where all people have access to use their superpowers to Build dreams and live in the hard, satisfying work of change.
Labels: Action Hero, career satisfaction, cuttin grass, design, E.Q, Fatherhood, fear, local heroes, Multiple Intelligences Theory, parental expectations, THE BUILDER, Vocational Identity, youth