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Excerpted from “JABO a Classic” by Steve Sturtz<\/h3>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s so quick, so hospitable and so willing to share what he had. Two or three times, he pulled a marble out of his pocket and handed it to me,\u201d Chuck Dennison said.<\/p>\n

If you are lucky enough to go to the JABO factory in Reno, Ohio then you will be lucky enough to meet David McCullough. David is a hands-on leader. He can do any job in the factory at any time and in fact, he does.<\/p>\n

He was born on March 17th<\/sup>, 1948, and raised in Pennsboro, one of many children in a large family. His dad, who worked in the timber trade, died when he was very young. He graduated from high school where he was a running back and a member of the debate team. He did his turn overseas.<\/p>\n

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David McCullough during the Vietnam war.
From the collection of David Chamberlain.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Vietnam sent home a hero \u2013 a highly decorated hero with three purple hearts, a silver star, six five bronze stars and a couple of air medals. When he left that part of the world, he left an offer of a field commission behind and came home, very glad and thankful to be alive.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I came back from Vietnam, I went to\u00a0the glass factory. \u00a0I worked carrying glass in\u00a0and then I advanced to glass blower. \u00a0Pennsboro Glass was a glass plant where they\u00a0made hand-blown glass. That is what I grew\u00a0up in, handmade glassware.\u00a0Then, I left and went to the steel mills in\u00a0Columbus, Ohio. I worked up there for two\u00a0or three years. I was asked to take a more\u00a0supervisory role and I didn\u2019t want to take it\u00a0because of the labor problems. So I left and\u00a0went back home.\u201d<\/p>\n

He took his wife Bonnie and his two young sons back to\u00a0Pennsboro. \u00a0\u201cColumbus is a larger metropolitan area. When my\u00a0second son was born, I realized what I had growing up\u00a0in a smaller school district. \u00a0My oldest son was in grade\u00a0school. I didn\u2019t want them to grow up in this. I wanted\u00a0them to be able to go out, walk down the street and play\u00a0on outdoor courts without anyone standing armed guard.\u201d<\/p>\n

He began working in Champion Agate the same year and\u00a0within two weeks he was the plant manager. \u00a0\u201cI had the abilities and so they let me run it.<\/p>\n

\"David
David working on double cut machine.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

They were only running one machine when I first started, but they were getting ready to start a second one. I did it all. I also took care of the managerial part as I was running the machines. It was a small company at the time, but we grew. We got a few nice orders. They turned it all over to me. They said if you want to do it, go do it.<\/p>\n

It was just a short period of running machines. I went into management and shipping. I still ran the machines off and on, when people didn\u2019t show up for work. Even here at JABO, I go out there and run the machines a couple of days a week. By doing that, the staff out there realized that what they do for a living, I was willing to do for a living. I didn\u2019t do that for an hour. I did it for the whole shift. In a hundred degree weather, I was there. The workers would listen to me because I was saying it from experience.\u201d<\/p>\n

The guy who sets the standard of leadership is the guy who participates and participates\u00a0aggressively and participates the most when it\u2019s the ugliest.<\/p>\n

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A hand-gathered marble made by David McCullough.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

David also made marbles in his spare time beginning in the early eighties. He has, in his office, a wooden block as a memento that\u00a0he used to round the marbles. \u00a0It has the date 11-4-83 which is\u00a0when he burned up the last of these wooded blocks and then\u00a0began using a metal one. Until the early<\/p>\n

nineties, he worked along\u00a0side his friend, George Williams in George\u2019s shop. \u00a0They melted\u00a0down some Vitro Anacortes marbles to create their own unique\u00a0ones. Always willing to try new marble techniques, they took a\u00a0previously made marble and embedded the Anacortes marble\u00a0onto it. This was done with the use of a hot plate. \u00a0Melting the smaller marble and flattening it as much as possible, they then joined it to the larger marble and rounded the whole thing as much as possible.<\/p>\n

\u201cGeorge Williams and I would make marbles in our spare time. George had his own glass shop. Bob Hamon would say to us, \u2018What are you making marbles for? You could make more money making vases.\u2019 Bob was a glass artist. He made hand-formed plates and vases.\u201d<\/p>\n

In 1991, he was asked to come to JABO. He was given a title, stock and a free rein. His artistry and chemical wizardry has put this company on the map and in the history books.<\/p>\n

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