Louisville, KY
Jim Smith grew up in Hazard, Kentucky and went to Western Kentucky University on a basketball scholarship.
Jim joined Xerox in 1972, he joined the Louisville Branch as a sales representative and became a very successful sales representative winning many Par Club trips and awards. Jim carried his determination to win from the basketball court to the Xerox sales arena, he was a powerful competitor! Jim had the stature, presence, attitude and name recognition to control every sales call, like he controlled the basketball court! When Jim walked into a room, everyone knew he had arrived! Xerox recognized his sales skills and his ability to get along with others and assigned him to the much sought after assignment of teaching others at the Xerox training center in Leesburg! Later Jim became a sales manager in Louisville managing a team of sales representatives. After a successful sales management career, Jim was named to branch supply manager until he retired in 2002. After Xerox, Jim became a teacher in the Shelby County School system until retirement in 2010. Jim has 6 children and 14 grandchildren.
In October 2012 Jim had a serious stroke which paralyzed his right side and he lost control of his right arm and leg, however, his speech was affected very little and the last we heard, he is progressing very well and regaining use of his right leg.
Jim was always in a good mood, with a smile on his face, a good friend and everyone he met liked and respected Jim Smith!
3 comments:
Jim Smith was a good man and hard worker. I believe I hired him and he had been a good basketball player.
At one time xerox had a basketball
team that consisted of Jim, Larry Morris, who had been a college player, a all American player from U of L, and a man who had played with Lee Alcindor in high school.
Thanks for the info.
Jim Woodcock
Jim was really a good guy!
Jim was a great guy, this is sad. When he was in Lexington we would pitch quarters , closest to the wall on Friday afternoons when things slowed down. I remember one day he rolled the quarter to the wall and when it hit it just fell on it’s side very close to the wall. He won that pitch but then we had to define no rolling in the future , just pitching. He was a real cut up and always like mixing it up.
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