Dr. Robert Canady is a retired educator, who served in the Air Force during the Korean War, and he attended college first on a football scholarship and later on the G.I. Bill. His talents as an artist were discovered early in his life, and he's always said that colleges like artists who play football. Because he grew up poor in Hurley, New Mexico, he didn't have the benefit of a strong early education. That led to his being determined that he would teach children better ways to learn to read. But before he achieved his doctorate, he worked in Hollywood as an aspiring actor. Later he founded a Montessori School in Santa Barbara, California. For many years, he flew his private plane around the U.S. until one day, he nearly crashed during a violent storm. He thanked God for saving his life, and soon found his new ministry - creating stained-glass windows for churches who couldn't afford them. Along the way, he met and married Dr. Shirley Raines, who became the first female president of the University of Memphis. He's written many educational works, but he always wanted to write his "Life Stories."