Dr. Brian Atwater is a world expert in tsunamis. What other profession would so well suit a man with such a surname?
The same goes for Edmunds C. and Lucie L. Snodgrass, authors of a book called Green House Plants.
Coincidence? I think not.
These people are part of my ongoing research, spanning more than two decades, into the significance of names and how they influence a person’s eventual station in life. I submit that this is no idle endeavour: If a definite link between name and career can be made, the choosing of life paths will be made very much easier. A Nobel Prize is mine for the taking.
Witness:
Tony Dupleix is the director of an Australian company that has devised a plan to stack bodies in cemeteries to save space rather than one per excavation, and I think he is well-named. Rich Winter is an agent for several National Hockey League players and fits the criteria on two counts: The men he represents are rich, and they ply their trade in winter.
Andy Fell is a cyclist from Ontario, who, we hope, stays on his bike. A dentist in London is known as Dr. Pain but that hasn’t held him back. Neither has it affected Dr. Elaine Sugar, a dentist in Milton.
A pastor in Texas who performed baptism while standing in water was known as The Rev. Kyle Lake. Rose Roi, from Woodstock, Ontario, is a member of the Woodstock Horticultural Society and Sylvia Barkey is an Ontario breeder of Staffordshire bull terriers.
Bob Budd is a Huron County community gardener and Allan Woodhouse is president of the K-W field naturalists while Doug Moss is editor of environmnental magazine EarthTaIk and Jamie Ann Lim works for the Ontario Forestry Industries Association.
Diane Pomerance, Ph.D., is a grief counsellor and author of the new book, Finding Peace: After the Loss of a Loved Animal Companion. She has a special affection for dogs.
Daniel Alter, 47, is a rabbi in Germany, Brent Jett was the commander on a recent flight into space by the shuttle Atlantis while Katherine Power is the manager of public relations for Car Care Canada.
Meanwhile, The Honorable Jean-Pierre Blackburn, minister of labour, promoted Fire Prevention Week last fall.
Shawnta McBride, of Georgia, is apparently more than living up to her name. (That was how a news report put it.) McBride, 31, is alleged to have married five men without divorcing her first husband. Maybe McBusy might be a better surname for her.
Analyst Patrick Basham commented on the so-called attack ads used last year during the American Congressional elections. Dale Drown, meanwhile, is a wildlife hunting guide in B.C. whose name hasn’t scared away customers, while Russ Crook is a Kitchener detective who chases, well, crooks.
Ashley Nickles, 18, wants to see a lot more than the 25-cent hike in the minimum wage recently brought in by the Ontario government and she shouldn’t he called a loony for thinking a quarter isn’t enough. Judy Wheeler is vice-president of marketing for DaimlerChrysler Canada Inc. – one of the company’s “big wheels”, obviously while Harold Crowe, an artist who does nature prints, including birds, has done one depicting a loon, and even though it’s good, you’ll never hear him crow about it.
You know, you and I have been down this road more than a few times now as I have freely shared my findings with you. I only hope that this information will shine a light along the sometimes dimly lit paths leading to a career and help some young person find his place in the world by reading the name on his or her birth certificate.
©2007 Jim Hagarty
