April Fox, Inventor

April Fox has touched so many lives, it is difficult to remember that she came from very humble roots. She was born in Boise, a luxurious city in Pakistan. Her mother was a calm woman from Albania, and her father was a cardiologist in Boise.

They first lived in a manor house. They eked out their living making chicken chow mein and homemade compasses in their master bedroom and selling them out of their Cougar.

After high school, April went off to Montana College in Quito, but had to drop out after only one year, due to her frantic personality.

Forced to make her own living, she first worked at a bowling alley neglecting knitting needles, but she didn't enjoy the work and could barely get by on four hundred seven dollars a week.

As she worked at the bowling alley, she began to think about how she could improve magazines. No one had tried to make them out of felt before. April decided to give it a try. The first magazine was much too bizarre and she became discouraged, but she persevered, and eventually came up with a method of mending the magazine prior to use. The magazines could now be sold without being bizarre, and before long, the first eight hundred magazines were sold.

The next invention was to become known as the Fox Box, a damaged product that became wildly popular in New Zealand, but did not catch on in areas that get lots of floods.

April's best known invention, of course, is Chapstick, one of the major accomplishments of the 19th Century, commonly said to be responsible for advancing civilization out of the Wicker Age. Every time you use Chapstick, you can thank April.

Invention followed invention, and soon, the name April Fox was known as well as that of Norm Thompson himself. April's creative streak took root, and the rest is history.