A Chat With Harvey Dean, president/CEO, Pitsco

These two teachers came to me to write a book for them. I was a young guy at the time. These guys were pretty innovative and creative. One of them taught high school, the other taught junior high. We visited together a few nights and finally decided, or rather I suggested, “Why don’t we just start a company?” Because they’d received such poor service from some major education supply company, I said, “Why don’t we just start a company and do some creative kits.” We had this book, or rather, they had me writing this book about what they were doing in the classroom that was innovative. They came to me because I had a minor in language arts. We decided to take the individual chapters and ideas, and turn them into kits for teachers. None of us had any business experience or any brains really. Well, we had brains, but we certainly didn’t have business brains, that’s for sure.