CHERIE NOWLIN MCBRIDE (AKA Duckie) grew up in a small town on the industrial Texas Gulf Coast. Her mother would have preferred that she become a teacher, but she managed to 'get away to art school.'
Art school paid off and soon! She went on to help produce the original Houston Astrodome scoreboard animations and then became a filmmaker in Alaska. Later, she returned to her hometown to join the family business. Life refocused to intensive art when Cherie and Glenn McBride married in 1985. Both feeling cloistered with business careers, they plunged into...more
