Dick Harper's
Self-Aggrandizement

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      Dick is an engineer, writer, boat builder, photographer, occasional college teacher, and arts council chair.
      "Anne says I'm pretty easy; I can be had for most anything with wheels, keels, or megabytes."
      Anne and Dick Harper share their Vermont farmhouse with a menagerie of cars and tools and boats and a great pile of sawdust from an ongoing renovation project.

[Anne took the digital photo at the
southernmost point in the United States.]

Experienced - Effective

      Dick brings the juice that makes a product line sing.
      In senior technical management slots with Fortune 500 manufacturers he created 80 new products and aggressively championed them. Now he leads a small firm that conceives popular products and initiates the technology leaps for manufacturing them.
      Since 1973, his engineering groups have designed and produced book and paper handling machinery, composite consumer products, custom production machinery, FRP molds, and specialty electronics. He has found new markets for 14 old products and built probably the best family sportboats around.

Pretty neat tech stuff

      Not your ordinary inventioneer, Dick has made breakthroughs in powerboat hulls, material handling equipment, and consumer products. He invented, found markets, and developed tooling for such products as the hastia, SoftRide, and Spitfire powerboats, a self-guided AGV platform, the thin book pilemaker, a circular saw kit, and a flow control faucet. His recent projects include an AI-controlled toy platform and a new composite body-filler compound.

Capture the World on Paper™

      Dick's articles on the arts, business, consumer issues, grown-up toys, and technology, have appeared in national, regional, and local publications. He writes a popular weekly newspaper column and has published technical manuals and textbooks.
      His fine art photographs appear in galleries and private collections from Vermont to Florida to the West Coast.

Professional Organizations and Community Service

      Committed to community service, Dick is in his third elected term as School Moderator in the Town of Highgate. He is a founder of and serves as a Director and Chair of the All Arts Council of Franklin County. He is an Incorporator of the Northwestern Medical Center, and founder and past director of the Missisquoi Health Center. His other committee work centers on Franklin County volunteer organizations including the Town of Highgate, the Swanton Library, the Franklin-Grand Isle Resource Directory, and the Franklin-Grand Isle United Way. Dick also hosts the televised interview program, Neighbor to Neighbor.

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