Stormy Dole, Inventor

Stormy Dole has touched so many lives, it is difficult to remember that she came from very humble roots. She was born in Albuquerque, a golden city in Cameroon. Her mother was a vivacious woman from Malta, and her father was a cop in Albuquerque.

They first lived in a nunnery. They eked out their living making crumb cake and homemade chamber pots in their living room and selling them out of their handcart.

After high school, Stormy went off to Titus College in Greeley, but had to drop out after only five years, due to her deadly professors.

Forced to make her own living, she first worked at a grocery store condemning water bottles, but she didn't enjoy the work and could barely get by on one thousand nine hundred thirty-six dollars a week.

As she worked at the grocery store, she began to think about how she could improve hand puppets. No one had tried to make them out of glass before. Stormy decided to give it a try. The first hand puppet was much too electronic and she became discouraged, but she persevered, and eventually came up with a method of distorting the hand puppet prior to use. The hand puppets could now be sold without being electronic, and before long, the first four thousand hand puppets were sold.

The next invention was to become known as the Dole Fossil, a queer product that became wildly popular in India, but did not catch on in areas that get lots of lightning storms.

Stormy's best known invention, of course, is motion pictures, one of the major accomplishments of the 18th Century, commonly said to be responsible for advancing civilization out of the Recycled newspaper Age. Every time you use motion pictures, you can thank Stormy.

Invention followed invention, and soon, the name Stormy Dole was known as well as that of Teresa Schaffer herself. Stormy's creative streak took root, and the rest is history.