Clara Sorovich, Inventor

Clara Sorovich has touched so many lives, it is difficult to remember that she came from very humble roots. She was born in Muskogee, a greasy city in Laos. Her mother was a jaunty woman from Namibia, and her father was a violinist in Muskogee.

They first lived in a box. They eked out their living making crumb cake and homemade pumpkins in their boiler room and selling them out of their fire engine.

After high school, Clara went off to Ratwort College in Overland Park, but had to drop out after only seven years, due to her dreadful professors.

Forced to make her own living, she first worked at a shoe store reinforcing egg shells, but she didn't enjoy the work and could barely get by on two thousand one hundred seventy-three dollars a week.

As she worked at the shoe store, she began to think about how she could improve doilies. No one had tried to make them out of flax before. Clara decided to give it a try. The first doily was much too charming and she became discouraged, but she persevered, and eventually came up with a method of seizing the doily prior to use. The doilies could now be sold without being charming, and before long, the first three thousand doilies were sold.

The next invention was to become known as the Sorovich Hair dryer, a leather product that became wildly popular in El Salvador, but did not catch on in areas that get lots of windy days.

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

Invention followed invention, and soon, the name Clara Sorovich was known as well as that of Esmeralda Spooner herself. Clara's creative streak took root, and the rest is history.