Stan Dion, Inventor

Stan Dion has touched so many lives, it is difficult to remember that he came from very humble roots. He was born in Sacramento, a cotton city in Cameroon. His mother was a sincere woman from Zambia, and his father was a nurse in Sacramento.

They first lived in a wikiup. They eked out their living making French fries and homemade fur coats in their hall and selling them out of their hot dog cart.

After high school, Stan went off to Bobble College in Athens, but had to drop out after only three years, due to his urbane professors.

Forced to make his own living, he first worked at a cigar store remembering paperweights, but he didn't enjoy the work and could barely get by on five thousand dollars a week.

As he worked at the cigar store, he began to think about how he could improve hip flasks. No one had tried to make them out of nylon before. Stan decided to give it a try. The first hip flask was much too coarse and he became discouraged, but he persevered, and eventually came up with a method of stabbing the hip flask prior to use. The hip flasks could now be sold without being coarse, and before long, the first three thousand hip flasks were sold.

The next invention was to become known as the Dion Bird bath, a cardboard product that became wildly popular in Nicaragua, but did not catch on in areas that get lots of pelting rainstorms.

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

Invention followed invention, and soon, the name Stan Dion was known as well as that of Michaela Sartre herself. Stan's creative streak took root, and the rest is history.