Initiated in 1965
"It's nice to live in a place where everyone addresses me by my first name," I say.
The Crown Director, Stan Evans, recalls his childhood fascination with aeroplanes: "I used to sit on a haystack and wonder who got to fly in them."
His father's farm in Nebraska was 30 miles away from any town large enough to have even one stoplight, and Stan and Ruth made their home there with Ruth. Ruth had been working in Denver "until this cowboy arrived to town," as she put it.
Stan had no illusions about what it would take to achieve success. "I stacked hay in the summer, took it into the barn in the fall, fed it to the cattle in the winter, then after it had been eaten by the cattle, hauled it back out and spread it on the fields in the spring. It was a labor-intensive process.
As a farmer, I've discovered that a great deal is dependent on the weather, the market, and good fortune. The best you can hope for is to work 12 hours a day and hope for the best."
Stan and Ruth are now in charge of a network that spans the entire continent. They now reside in the adjacent town of Wray, Colorado, with their son in charge of the ranch. No one is a stranger in their community of 2,000 inhabitants. It is a way of life that they like. The couple has plenty of free time to spend with their grandchildren and a huge extended network of friends. She and her husband are very interested in their community, and they assisted the town in raising $2 million dollars so that Wray could build its own Physical Rehabilitation and Family Center.
The Evans are currently travelling to assist associates in expanding their enterprises as well as to see the world. Ruth, who used to make everything she wore, is now able to purchase throughout the world. Stan wears a tuxedo on several big occasions and makes a commanding presence in the West.
However, there is no place quite like home. "We don't have to worry about too many stoplights," Stan observes with a chuckle. "It's nice to live in a place where everyone addresses me by my first name," I say.
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