Leonie Ruiz, Inventor

Leonie Ruiz has touched so many lives, it is difficult to remember that she came from very humble roots. She was born in Bellevue, a magnificent city in Hungary. Her mother was a timid woman from Brazil, and her father was a sports writer in Bellevue.

They first lived in an igloo. They eked out their living making dirty rice and homemade screwdrivers in their nursery and selling them out of their Mercury Cougar.

After high school, Leonie went off to Cohen College in Irvine, but had to drop out after only two years, due to her deadly professors.

Forced to make her own living, she first worked at a shoe store softening radios, but she didn't enjoy the work and could barely get by on five hundred ninety-nine dollars a week.

As she worked at the shoe store, she began to think about how she could improve bags of groceries. No one had tried to make them out of sea shell before. Leonie decided to give it a try. The first bag of groceries was much too sophisticated and she became discouraged, but she persevered, and eventually came up with a method of grabbing the bag of groceries prior to use. The bags of groceries could now be sold without being sophisticated, and before long, the first four thousand bags of groceries were sold.

The next invention was to become known as the Ruiz Hubcap, a ridiculous product that became wildly popular in The United States, but did not catch on in areas that get lots of windy days.

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

Invention followed invention, and soon, the name Leonie Ruiz was known as well as that of Geraldine Doyle herself. Leonie's creative streak took root, and the rest is history.