You don’t have to ... ask Jeff Sebell.
Jeff was in a serious car accident the summer before his junior year at Bowdoin College in Maine, where he was a James Bowdoin Scholar. He was left comatose for a month with an extremely severe closed head injury that required many months of hospitalization and rehabilitation. Miraculously, Jeff returned to Bowdoin just three months later taking nearly a full course load. He graduated one semester late and then moved to Colorado where he became a disk jockey and music director at KLGT, the Light of Summit County. Two years later, he moved back East and joined the family business, where he worked in sales for 25 years. Jeff’s journey is an inspirational story of nearly 30 years of determination and growth in the face of great odds, and of perserverance when there seemed to be no hope.
Jeff lives with his daughter Emily, and has a son, Dustin in college.
Time line: August
1975 |
Car accident. Coma for four weeks. |
January
1976 |
Return to Bowdoin College (Junior) |
January
1978 |
Graduate from Bowdoin College. |
January
1978 |
Move to Breckenridge, Colorado and work as a disk jockey. |
April
1978 |
Promoted to Music Director |
September
1979 |
Move to Cambridge, MA. Try writing. |
January
1980 |
Join the family business as an expediter |
1981 |
Promoted to salesman |
1982 |
On Board of Directors of Mass Chapter of NHIF |
1985 |
Dustin born |
1986 |
Promoted to sales manager |
1989 |
Emily born |
1980-1987 |
Wrote three novels |
1985 |
Worked in a professional children’s theatre |
1987 |
Vice President of the New England Chapter of the Precision Metalforming Association. |
1989-2004 |
Wrote numerous trade magazine articles. Instrumental in change to Lean Manufacturing Vice President of Sales |
2004-Present |
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