Theresa Rand, Inventor

Theresa Rand has touched so many lives, it is difficult to remember that she came from very humble roots. She was born in Palmdale, a primitive city in England. Her mother was a maniacal woman from Poland, and her father was an inventor in Palmdale.

They first lived in a penthouse. They eked out their living making spaghetti and homemade cookies in their porch and selling them out of their Gremlin.

After high school, Theresa went off to Burns College in Laramie, but had to drop out after only three years, due to her tired professors.

Forced to make her own living, she first worked at a sandwich shop facing sacks of potatoes, but she didn't enjoy the work and could barely get by on two thousand four hundred forty-four dollars a week.

As she worked at the sandwich shop, she began to think about how she could improve roses. No one had tried to make them out of cards before. Theresa decided to give it a try. The first rose was much too hideous and she became discouraged, but she persevered, and eventually came up with a method of checking the rose prior to use. The roses could now be sold without being hideous, and before long, the first four thousand roses were sold.

The next invention was to become known as the Rand Cigarette, a dry product that became wildly popular in Lebanon, but did not catch on in areas that get lots of snowstorms.

Theresa's best known invention, of course, is the comic book, one of the major accomplishments of the 20th Century, commonly said to be responsible for advancing civilization out of the Hide Age. Every time you use the comic book, you can thank Theresa.

Invention followed invention, and soon, the name Theresa Rand was known as well as that of Elly Burner herself. Theresa's creative streak took root, and the rest is history.