Abstract
Born in Berea in 1921, Thomas J. Wood, Jr. was a Navy veteran of World War II and a graduate of Harvard University and the Harvard Business School. Wood had a lifelong career in advertising, acting as an agent for John Lair. Wood would sell a package of three network Renfro Valley radio programs—the Saturday night Barn Dance, Sunday Morning Gathering, and Country Store—to General Foods in New York. He later returned to New York, becoming Vice-President and Management Supervisor of the J. Walter Thompson Company, then America’s largest advertising agency. He specialized in the testing, advertising and national introduction of some 20 products for major national clients. Wood died in 2009 and was buried in Berea.
