American Dreamers: How Two Oregon Farm Kids Transformed an Industry, a Community, and a University

Austin and Tymchuck present readers with Ken Austin’s account of his journey from his humble rural Oregon roots to founding and building a multi-million dollar international dental tool manufacturing company. The authors have organized the main body of the text in seventeen chapters, arranged in roughly chronological order, beginning with the heritage of the author’s family and his wife’s family. Ken Austin is the co-founder of A-dec dental equipment company and the holder of forty U.S. patents and thirty-three patents in foreign countries. Annotation ©2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)