“If I were growing up today, I’m quite certain that I would be classified as ADD and would have been given drugs to slow me down. I was always doing a wide variety of different things which continued throughout my adult life.” This is how Henry Oles describes the central theme of his life. He was born in Paris, Texas in 1943. Today, he has thin light gray hair as well as a short, well maintained white beard. He is usually seen in public dressed in a dress shirt or occasionally a suit. His voice is deep and similar to that of a radio announcer. Although his parents were from Ohio and Pennsylvania, he was born in Texas because his father was in the military preparing to be deployed to Europe. He was very active in high school and made