SPOONER SPOTLIGHT Q4
Orrie Capone is this quarter’s SPOONER Spotlight! With many passions and life experiences, Orrie talks about his life, family, history, and more.
WHAT WAS YOUR FIRST JOB?
Working in the family Italian Bakery business at 10 years old for $2.00 a day delivering bread on a bread truck for 8 hours a day. First “Professional Job” for Eastman Kodak as a Photographer in the marketing department. Traveled approximately 250 days a year teaching photography at Photo Seminar, presenting a large format Kodak Travel show, and spending three months every summer in a National Park doing Photo Interpretive Programs for the National Park Service.
WHAT SPORTS DO YOU LIKE?
Baseball, football, hockey, and soccer. Love baseball, it is a metaphor for life. The changing pace, unpredictability, no clock (until this year), strategy, winning, and losing. New York Yankees.
BEST TRAVEL STORY?
HB might say Singapore, where he paid a palm reader to tell me I had a “Snake Problem”, and I had to pay $25 for a piece of aluminum foil to keep it away. However, my best travel story is hiking the Grand Canyon rim to rim.
PERSONAL LIFE & FAMILY
Married to Mary Barnes for 36 years, two children, John, a filmmaker in the Los Angeles area and daughter, Gina, who is in communications and loves life. John, and my daughter-in-law Giovanna, are proud parents to my grandson, Luca.
FAVORITE MEMORY?
Too many. Probably the day my wife said she would marry me, and the days my son and daughter were born.