A J Morris

Dr. Morris grew up on a farm in Mountain View, Arkansas, and at 12 moved to Kansas where he and his two brothers, John and Doug, became the first family of three Eagle Scouts in Kansas causing his father to receive an honorary Eagle Scout designation. His son, Jonathan, became an Eagle Scout and his grandson Noah is next.

With a tremendous amount of natural energy, his entrepreneurial spirit has given him many journeys. Right out of college he became a commissioned Naval officer and served two tours of combat engagements in Viet Nam as a Squadron JAG Officer, Nuclear Weapons Officer, DASH Helicopter Pilot, Gunnery Officer, and First Lieutenant on the USS McKean DD 784. He was one of six Naval JAGs who investigated the Gulf of Tonkin incident and went on to command CBs and the Fleet Training Group in Little Rock Arkansas. His JAG background would become instrumental in investigating FDA violations by unlicensed international drug suppliers as he left the Navy and joined American Cyanamid, the pioneering researcher of drugs to suppress disease levels of confined animals in feed lots. This background in animal nutrition and pharmaceutical agriculture technology led him to work with American Broadcasting Company as Mid-States Marketing Director of FEEDSTUFFS, the agriculture trade journal for the nutrition, scientific research, pharmaceutical, feeds, machinery, grain and chemical industries. He then became National Sales Manager for International Patented Feed Company as he teamed up with the nutritional giant of Quaker Oats Dr. Bill Ensor.

He owned a family Hallmark Cards and office supply center and published three newspapers in Mountain View, Arkansas. This experience eventually led him to Dallas Baptist University where he received an MBA with concentrations in Management and Finance, followed by a PhD from the University of North Texas in Higher Education Administration with Statistical Analysis as a minor. He became a business teacher and began conducting international business with China. The People's Republic of China gave him permission to write his dissertation on how Chinese move from education to industry and how alliances in networks control government, industry and society. While in China, he built four roadway chemical factories and served as the Project Manager for constructing the Satterwhite Wheel, a 100-ton-per-minute excavator used for building roads and digging coal.

Returning to the U.S. he spent seven years dedicated to researching wine. He took his findings to Dr. John Brewer, a PhD in physics and owner of a winery. Dr. Brewer was elated stating that the information was exactly what people needed—short books of research about why wine has such a long history of health foundation. He then began breaking the manuscript into small segments of research for "quick reads.” Wine’s Nutritional Power is the first of a series.

Dr. Morris has three children, Jonathan, Melani and Kristen, five grandsons and one granddaughter. He lives in Bella Vista, Arkansas with his wife, Glenda Sue Maxwell, a gifted free spirit, playwright and minstrel.