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Tom Morey, Surfer Who Invented The Boogie Board, Dies At 86 

In any case, Mr. Morey didn't get rich from the Boogie Board. He sold his organization at some point in 1977 or 1978 to Kransco, a toy maker, for a dubious moderate total and got no sovereignties. 메이저사이트

Mr. Morey was philosophical with regards to his lost bonus. 

"Let's assume I had sold this for a billion dollars," he told The Los Angeles Times in 2003. "l'm as yet going to be staying here in my swimming outfit. I'm not going to eat anything else than I'm eating." 

Thomas Hugh Morey was brought into the world on Aug. 15, 1935, in Detroit, to Howard and Grace Morey. His dad was a realtor, his mom a homemaker. A family move to Laguna Beach, Calif., when Tom was youthful acquainted him with the Pacific Ocean and surfboarding. 

Selecting at the University of Southern California, he began as a music major however procured his four year certification in math in 1957. While still in school, he and a colleague, Bob Tierney, made the Fantopper, a shapeable, honeycomb paper cap. They sold 100,000 of them (some to Joan Collins and Red Skelton), and the cap was highlighted in a main story in Parade magazine that offered the conversation starter, "Will paper caps become a craze?" 

Mr. Morey joined Douglas Aircraft in the last part of the 1950s after a stretch in the Army. At Douglas he worked in composite materials (which he definitely thought about from his initial surfboard making) however left quite a while later to open a surf shop and construct custom surfboards in Ventura, Calif. He coordinated the Tom Morey Invitational riding competition in Ventura in 1965; it's accepted to be the game's first prize-cash contest. 

After the offer of his Boogie Board business, Mr. Morey kept on chipping away at surfboard developments while playing drums with a band at the Mauna Kea Beach Hotel on Hawaii's huge island. In 1985, requiring cash, he moved to Washington State, where he accepted a position with Boeing and got back to working with composite materials.