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Two Bills from Boston: Making the American Dream Come True

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Here is a true story dressed in determination and teeming with perseverance. It is also a story about partnership. Bill Wild and Bill Bright (the last names alone portray a spirit that symbolizes their experiences) agreed as teenagers to team up toward capturing an American dream. Inspired -- perhaps driven -- by the advice from another Bill (Uncle Bill, who lived in New Jersey -- hence the title is not "Three Bills from Boston"), who suggested "let it be known that you want to succeed . . . and keep at it," these two young men, from the East Coast to the West Coast, through a Depression, a war, and the aftermath, converted their commitment to a common goal (to be electrical engineers) into a realization of their mutual dream: to add to the world something a little better than the world already had. This is a story about luck, skill, hard work, ingenuity, opportunity, the value of a good education, and, ultimately, success. The story of Bill Wild and Bill Bright (a story told by Bill Bright) chronicles not a rags to riches nor a claim to fame; it chronicles hard-won and very satisfying success.