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markum, became ceo and ran the company until they sold show me. I want to have a wide variety of knowing how to do
it in 1999. the acceptance of females is an inseparable part of things that a guy can do because I want to be an independent
the company’s culture, kenneth explained. “A lot of machine woman. I want do it by myself and why not. I don’t need a guy
shops are good old boy,” he said, “but we are not that way. It’s to do it for me. teach me and I can do it.”
never been that way.” As the interview came to a close, stacie and kenneth got
And, given stacie’s confidence and assertiveness, it seems into a rolling banter.
unlikely that anyone could get away with relegating her to stacie had not yet, in her first week, earned a nickname at
second or third place. micro craft.
“Are you uncomfortable being a female in a profession kenneth: she’ll do something and it will stick to her.
mostly dominated by men,” she was asked. stacie: Dale’s nickname for me is Queen.
“no,” she said. “when high school students would come kenneth: that might be a good one.
to our class at tcAt, I’d always take time to talk to the girls stacie: It came from the Queen of Darkness. I wore a shirt
and tell them just because you’re a girl don’t think you cannot the other day that said “this shade of black really brings out
do this. the color of my soul.”
“I’m 4-foot 11 and a half and I’m doing it,” she said. kenneth: we’ll have to get you a tiara.
As an aside, the humor that apparently goes along with stacie: I have my own tiara…. H
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