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 Wally Amos - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Wally Amos became a literacy advocate in 1977.
Wallace Amos Jr., known as Wally Amos (born 1936) is an entrepreneur, speaker, actor and book writer from Tallahassee, Florida.
Amos, who is an African American, would later on drop out of that institute, to join the U.S. Air Force.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wally_Amos   (394 words)

  
 Famous Amos - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Wally Amos, an Air Force veteran who worked as a talent agent with the William Morris Agency, would send home-cooked chocolate chip cookies to celebrities to entice them to meet with him and maybe sign a deal to be represented by the William Morris company.
These packages marked the end of Wally Amos' cover appearances, and featured a number of small cookies pictured instead, with a blue ribbon reading "chocolate chips".
The 2000s Famous Amos package are very similar to the ones used during the 1990s, except for a couple of differences, such as the ribbon's color (almond has substituted blue).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Famous_Amos   (434 words)

  
 Bookselling This Week: Wally Amos, Gourmet Cookie Icon, Serves Up Recipes for Gourmet Lives
For Wally Amos, gourmet cookie guru and founder of Famous Amos Cookies, the cookie is a metaphor for life.
Amos counsels entrepreneurs to add a generous cup each of faith, commitment, and vision-stir together, then add it to the focus for a strong dough.
Today, Amos is also a national spokesperson for Literacy Volunteers, a board member of Aloha United Way, an entrepreneur, author, motivational speaker, and TV teacher/host for 50 adult basic learning programs aired nationally on PBS.
news.bookweb.org /features/49.html   (576 words)

  
 The All-Star Agency - Wally Amos
Wally Amos is a man who reached for the stars, achieved the impossible dream and then fell into a pit where he could have been swallowed into a black abyss.
Wally Amos, "The cookie man," is a world-class celebrity you can count on to set the tone for a lively, upbeat event.
Wally Amos is qualified to help an audience turn their adverse situations into opportunities.
www.allstaragency.com /cgi-bin/speaker2001.asp?ID=251   (1523 words)

  
 WALLY AMOS - Of Famous Amos Cookies Fame
Wally Amos, who rose from relative poverty to fame and fortune as "Famous Amos" details the components for a successful personal, financial and spiritual life using his ten secret ingredients for inner strength.
Wally imparts his belief that crises can turn out to be glorious benefits if we draw on universal wisdom to handle them -- that challenges are simply part of every human being's journey; they are valuable catalysts for our personal growth.
Wally is the author of four books on positive thinking and motivation, holds and honorary Doctorate from Johnson and Wales, has received countless national awards and honors, and recently has been lauded on the Senate floor.
www.sterlingspeakers.com /amos.htm   (1047 words)

  
 Wally Amos, the inventor of 'Famous Amos' cookies to be Kinderdance franchise conference keynote speaker.
Wally Amos, the inventor of 'Famous Amos' cookies to be Kinderdance franchise conference keynote speaker.
Wally Amos, the inventor of "Famous Amos" cookies and now “Chip & Cookie”, will be the keynote speaker at the Kinderdance franchisee annual continuing education conference being held in Melbourne Beach, Florida this November.
Wally has appeared on hundreds of television and radio shows and has authored five books.
www.franchisegator.com /press_releases/2005/06/20050623_112.html   (325 words)

  
 Beyond Word Publishing - Inspiring to Integrity
Wally Amos has been a watermelon connoisseur since early childhood and is also the father of the gourmet chocolate-chip cookie industry.
Wally shares his personal path to wisdom and tells how he never lost his humor, joy, and positive outlook on life in the process.
A master storyteller, Wally believes we all have a choice in our own happiness--no matter who we are, no matter what we've been through--and his stories will touch you at the very depth of your soul.
www.beyondword.com /all-book-catalog/W-books/bk-watermelon-magic.html   (323 words)

  
 brandchannel.com Famous Amos brand brands brand branding
In March 1975, a former talent scout by the name of Wally Amos borrowed US$ 25,000 from friends to open the first freestanding Famous Amos gourmet cookie store.
Amos has written that it was then that he signed a quitclaim relieving him of the right to use his name or likeness in any enterprise that had food in its business.
When Amos wrote to the new owners of Famous Amos to complain, he was reminded of the quitclaim he had signed in 1985 requiring him to stay out of the cookie business.
www.brandchannel.com /features_profile.asp?pr_id=81   (1826 words)

  
 The Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans: Wally Amos
Kailua, HI When Wally Amos won his Horatio Alger Award in 1987, his Famous Amos Chocolate Chip Cookie Corporation had made $12 million in annual sales with 35 Famous Amos stores throughout the United States and Asia.
Finally, Amos took control of his life and began to earn a living doing something he had enjoyed doing since he was a child in his Aunt Della's kitchen—baking chocolate chip cookies.
Amos is enthusiastic about his Horatio Alger Award, and is especially proud of the work being done to help the Horatio Alger scholars.
www.horatioalger.com /members/member_info.cfm?memberid=AMO87   (614 words)

  
 Untitled Document
Wally Amos quit his job as a theatrical agent to develop his growing hobby of baking bite-sized chocolate chip cookies.
Now, in the year of his company's 25th anniversary, Wally Amos is a writer, speaker, literacy advocate and cookie entrepreneur whose trademark Hawaiian shirt and Panama hat are featured at the Smithsonian Institute.
Famous Amos brand cookies was born and has now become a household name.
www.usatoday.com /educate/careers/dream063.htm   (753 words)

  
 Amos
At this period Amos was called from his obscurity to remind the people of the law of God's retributive justice, and to call them to repentance.
Amos (עמוס "Burden", Standard Hebrew ʿAmos, Tiberian Hebrew ʿĀmôs) was a person in the Bible, and putative author of the Book of Amos (for Bible citation Amo).
AMOS is a programming language for the Commodore Amiga computer.
www.aaaah.org /wiki/en/am/Amos.htm   (261 words)

  
 MBA Style magazine - Book Reviews
Amos moved to New York City at the age of 12, to live with an Aunt, an Aunt who had a knack for baking cookies.
Amos is bluntly honest in his discussions of his love for public relations and promotion.
Amos' inspiring, aphorism-filled book relates how left the armed forces, took a job at Saks Fifth Avenue as a stock clerk, married, and had two sons.
members.aol.com /mbastyle/web/review.html   (2899 words)

  
 Chip and Cookie
These days Wally Amos is famous as much for promoting literacy and as an inspirational personality as he is for cookies.
WALLY and Christine Harris-Amos are long-time friends to Chip and Cookie.
Wally is a true entrepreneur who created the gourmet cookie market, introduced a gourmet muffin and then used his fame to help people in ways that go beyond the good feeling you get from eating cookies or other sweets.
www.chipandcookie.com /friends   (357 words)

  
 NSU - Norfolk State University
Wally Amos has succeeded in business because he placed a value on education and was willing to take risks.
Amos is the third distinguished speaker in the forum to discuss the intricacies of business including entrepreneurship, strategic marketing, supply chain management and other topics of interest.
Born in Tallahassee, Fla., Amos was raised in New York City and dropped out of a vocational high school to join the U.S. Air Force.
www.nsu.edu /news/press/2003/042203.html   (540 words)

  
 Wally Amos Watermelon Hats
Licensed: Wally Amos presents Wallymelon Hats is a trademark owned by and used under license from Soma LLC.
www.thetreebuilder.com /wally1.html   (47 words)

  
 vol45a1.html
Wally Amos: For the adults who have been out of school for such a long period of time, where their literacy skills are at a low level, the most effective way really is one-on-one tutoring.
Wally Amos is the National Spokesman, Literacy Volunteers of America, Inc.; Board of Advisors—National Center for family Literacy; Board of Directors, Cities in Schools; Board of Directors, Governor’s Council for Literacy; Board of Directors, Aloha United Way, Honolulu; Board of Trustees, Nepoleon Hill Foundation; Owner, Uncle Nonam‘e Cookie Company, Author, Instructor and Corporate Lecturer.
Wally Amos: There were about four or five years in a row that I attended ALA conferences and would speak.
www2.hawaii.edu /~adamson/vol45a1.html   (4506 words)

  
 Wally Amos 1936-
Wally "Famous" Amos was born in Tallahassee, Florida, in 1936 and attended the old Lincoln High School.
As a literacy volunteer, Wally Amos said "You cannot succeed, if you cannot read." He is helping the estimated 23 million Americans who have not learned to read and write.
While working as a manager for the William Morris Agency, Wally began baking and bagging chocolate chip cookies.
www.firn.edu /civiced/games/faces/amos.html   (265 words)

  
 It's about much more than cookies - The Honolulu Advertiser - Hawaii's Newspaper
This is the message of a new children's book shepherded by Wally Amos called "Chip and Cookie: No More Chocolate Chips." It is a story of two dolls named Chip and Cookie, who save the day when Aunt Della (yep, the very same) is down to her last chip.
Amos, who lives in Kailua, never forgot the taste of those chocolate-chip cookies nor his Aunt Della, the woman who provided a home for him after his parents' divorce.
It is a lesson that Wally learned some 60 years ago standing in Aunt Della's kitchen, eating his first chocolate-chip cookie and looking over the streets of New York from her tiny apartment.
the.honoluluadvertiser.com /article/2005/Jan/02/il/il03p.html   (748 words)

  
 Honolulu Star-Bulletin Business
Hawaii businessman Wally Amos has signed on with the Keebler Foods Co. to promote his namesake creation, Famous Amos chocolate chip cookies.
Amos, who Keebler said will make dozens of appearances at trade shows, retailer events and other promotions under a multi-year agreement, was traveling and unavailable for comment.
Amos, who left the Famous Amos company 10 years ago, is now a spokesman for Keebler, the company said.
starbulletin.com /1999/05/26/business/story2.html   (335 words)

  
 HWA BIOGRAPHY
Amos, otherwise known as "Famous Amos" is best known for his gourmet cookie empire.
Amos sold his ownership of his cookie empire, and took the opportunity to launch a new cookie business,The Uncle Noname Cookie Company.
Wally is living proof that the success principals he lives by work.
www.harrywalker.com /speakers_template.cfm?spea_id=26   (369 words)

  
 Positive attitude makes Amos famous
They won't let him put his name on a cookie, but Wally Amos is still famous.
Amos started his Famous Amos Cookie company in 1975 and turned it into an $11 million-a-year empire by 1982.
Amos was pushed out of the company in 1989.
www.enquirer.com /editions/2001/11/04/tem_positive_attitude.html   (491 words)

  
 Wally "Famous" Amos to Speak at UTC
Amos’ accomplished career includes authorship of four books, acting as TV teacher/host of 50 episodes of state-of-the-art programs aimed at helping adults learn to read that air on PBS stations nationally, and guest appearances on hundreds of TV talk and news shows and sitcoms.
Amos will speak at noon, Thursday, October 28 in the Benwood Auditorium of the UTC Engineering, Math and Computer Science Building, located on the corner of Vine and Palmetto Streets.
Wally is an extremely charismatic speaker and an excellent example of an ethical, moral, successful, philanthropic entrepreneur,” said Dr. J.R. Clark, Probasco Chair of Free Enterprise at UTC.
www.utc.edu /Administration/UniversityRelations/newsreleases/homenews/amos.html   (205 words)

  
 Honolulu Star-Bulletin Features
No wonder Wally Amos chose cookies as his personal metaphor, his heraldic crest, his private mandala, his baby.
Wally Amos paused and switched on that famous smile.
The one-time music-industry A&R genius who chucked it all to sell gourmet chocolate chip cookies as "Famous Amos" in 1975 became one of the most-recognized corporate spokesmen in America, only to lose possession of his own name in a legal tiff -- not just the "Famous," but the "Wally" too!
starbulletin.com /2001/10/11/features/story1.html   (762 words)

  
 NMAH: Panama Hat
Years earlier Wally Amos had turned to another interest, making personal appearances as a motivational speaker and writer, using the skills he had learned in the entertainment and baking industries to inspire audiences to follow their dreams, wherever they might lead.
Retail cookie tins featured Wally Amos wearing a trademark straw hat and cotton shirt, clothing that he donated to the Smithsonian in 1980.
In 1975, on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, California, Wally Amos opened his first chocolate chip cookie bakery.
americanhistory.si.edu /collections/object.cfm?key=35&objkey=265   (201 words)

  
 The Civil Rights Movement: Black History Test
Wally Amos, born in Tallahassee, Florida, is a businessman.
In 1983 Doubleday published Wally’s own autobiography called: "The Famous Amos Story: The Face That Launched A Thousand Chips." Wally has gotten many awards like The National Literacy Honors Award and the President’s Award for Entrepreneurial Excellence.
Wally has always worked hard to get where he is today and it has paid off.
www.cyberlearning-world.com /nhhs/project/2000/jsquiz/test.htm   (860 words)

  
 Lowcountry NOW: Local News - Wally "Famous" Amos to address literacy group 12/13/04
The featured speaker will be Wally "Famous" Amos, the creator of the chocolate chip cookie brand and a national adult literacy advocate.
Cost: Tickets are $60 for dinner or $100 for dinner and a private reception with Wally Amos.
Amos' appearance will help raise funds and public awareness about the adult literacy issue facing the community.
www.lowcountrynow.com /stories/121304/LOCliteracy.shtml   (559 words)

  
 Rosica - About Us
Wally “Famous” Amos has known Chris Rosica, president of his PR firm Rosica Strategic Public Relations, since he was a baby.
John Rosica was the national promotion director for RCA Records when he met Wally Amos, a former agent with William Morris, known for his homemade cookies.
John Rosica was also responsible for bringing Amos and Literacy Volunteers of America together, a relationship that has proved hugely successful both to the cause of literacy, and to boosting Amos’ profile.
www.rosica.com /news_article4.html   (295 words)

  
 By Wally Amos
In Kailua, Wally and Christine Amos are opening a retail store for “Chip and Cookie,” the literacy dolls and family reading program they created.
Amos is best known as the creator of the “Famous Amos” brand of chocolate chip cookie.
Then, you can focus on how you can create the results that will help you achieve your goal.
www.oahuislandnews.com /Sep05/amos.htm   (354 words)

  
 Famous Amos® Cookies - About Us
Originally, Wally Amos, a true cookie lover, baked cookies in his home to share with his friends.
Today, Famous Amos® Cookies still meet these high expectations and are enjoyed by all true cookie lovers.
Famous Amos® Cookies - About Us Keyword Search
www.famous-amos.com /fa_about.shtm   (112 words)

  
 Shop A&E and The History Channel : Famous Wally Amos: The Cookie King VHS
Wally Amos is "Famous" for his chocolate chip cookies.
But before he cooked up that recipe, he had already tasted success in a totally different field; Wally was the first black talent agent at the William Morris Agency, representing the likes of Simon and Garfunkel and The Supremes.
Filled with candid reflections from Wally and those who know him best, including his wife and children, BIOGRAPHY® traces his tumultuous journey.
store.aetv.com /html/product/index.jhtml?id=18178   (214 words)

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