Don Panoz
Donald Panoz /ˈpeɪnoʊz/ PAY-nohz or /ˈpɑːnoʊz/ PAH-nohz (born February 13, 1935, in Alliance, Ohio) is an American entrepreneur who made his name in pharmaceuticals and has since become well known as a successful owner of various motorsport ventures.
Early life
Panoz is an Italian-American. His father, Eugene Panunzio, immigrated to the United States from Avezzano, Italy in the 1900s. Eugene, who shortened his surname from the traditional Panunzio to Panoz, was a champion featherweight boxer.
Panoz attended Greenbrier Military School in Lewisburg, West Virginia, where he met Nancy, whom he would later marry. The two both served in Japan with the United States Army, then moved to Pittsburgh upon their return to the United States.
Business career
Panoz operated two drug stores in Pittsburgh while studying business at Duquesne University. In 1961, Panoz and Milan Puskar formed Milan Pharmaceuticals (which would later be renamed Mylan) in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia. While head of this company, Panoz headed a research group that invented time-release medication through a transdermal patch, known most commonly in today's market for its nicotine application.
Podcasts:
Ten Pins
by: ConnellsAll alone, you sit by the hour
You're waiting for the sun to rise
In the night you sit by the fire
You're waiting for the will to fight
Chorus:
But I won't see you there
Ten pins down
No I won't see you there
Ten pins down
And you know that lines get me down
I'm waiting for the sun to rise
In the night we'll sit for awhile
We're waiting for the will to fight
(repeat chorus)
Never needing to decide
There's always another lie-down
You don't seem to know
It's happening over and over