Ethan Schecter, Inventor

Ethan Schecter has touched so many lives, it is difficult to remember that he came from very humble roots. He was born in Bellevue, a damp city in South Africa. His mother was a somber woman from New Zealand, and his father was a hobo in Bellevue.

They first lived in a church. They eked out their living making fish and chips and homemade magnets in their linen closet and selling them out of their Nissan Leaf.

After high school, Ethan went off to California College in London, but had to drop out after only ten years, due to his agitated personality.

Forced to make his own living, he first worked at a health food store punching candy canes, but he didn't enjoy the work and could barely get by on one thousand nine hundred seventy-seven dollars a week.

As he worked at the health food store, he began to think about how he could improve photographs. No one had tried to make them out of wax before. Ethan decided to give it a try. The first photograph was much too gooey and he became discouraged, but he persevered, and eventually came up with a method of squashing the photograph prior to use. The photographs could now be sold without being gooey, and before long, the first three hundred photographs were sold.

The next invention was to become known as the Schecter Package, a wooden product that became wildly popular in New Zealand, but did not catch on in areas that get lots of hot, sunny days.

Ethan's best known invention, of course, is scissors, one of the major accomplishments of the 21st Century, commonly said to be responsible for advancing civilization out of the Limestone Age. Every time you use scissors, you can thank Ethan.

Invention followed invention, and soon, the name Ethan Schecter was known as well as that of Steven Rexford himself. Ethan's creative streak took root, and the rest is history.