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Mr. August's company consists of a manufacturing plant and three retail stores. He also has done govern- ment contracting. In a 1991 Washington survey, Trinity Technology was listed as the No. 1 corn- pany to watch in the state of Washington based on earn- ings and gross potentials of thousands of private busi- nesses located in the state. Mr. August says his goals for Trinity are to "build an excellent company that will serve as a cash machine and a place where employees can realize their true poten- tials." One of his goals is also per- sonal. As a tribute to his sister and the values he learned while growing up in Detroit, Mr. August is building a camp in Washington to help underprivileged teens. Each week, three teens will be taught computer skills and decision-making techniques he hopes will help them. "We plan to take these kids into an environment that is conducive to making the right choices," he said. "While they are in the wilderness, the choices they make will have an immedi- ate effect. For example, when they make the right decision, they will be able to eat or get warm depending on the situation." The camp is scheduled to open in September. Before his sister was killed, Mr. August's plans Louis August were clear cut. He attended the University of Michigan on a Regents Alumni Schol- arship and had just landed a job with IBM as a network programer when a gunman open fired at the Buhl building in downtown Detroit, killing his sister. ' "After she died, I lost a lot of my motivation," Mr. August said. "I had to redefine my life." He brushed aside his credentials to test his skills at sales and working with people. At 24, he went to work as a salesman for a Computer Land store. "A job like this did not take a college education or "In 1981 there were really no jobs. We were the lost generation out of Southfield." Louis August any of the background I had. I felt my education was dis- qualifying me from what I really wanted to do," Mr. August said. Against the advice of his father, Mr. August went ahead with his plans. "I worked so much, people would talk about how I used to bring my sleeping bag to work and spend the night at the store. But I found some- thing I loved and I was escaping from the pain. That was something I really needed," he said. Mr. August soon decided that Los Angeles was not the place to raise a family and although he had just left Computer Land to art a computer manuf:- . -"ring • firm, he sold it and moved to Seattle. He came back to town for his Southfield High School 10-year reunion, and was not surprised to see how many people had left the Detroit area. "In 1981 there were really no jobs. We were the lost ge- neration out of Southfield. There was a real escapist at- titude and people went elsewhere," he said. "When I was in Tampa, I remember seeing articles about the black tag people from Michigan. We were called that because at that time there were so many people in Florida with the black Michigan plates." So what's ahead for this businessman who already knows how to surf? Politics. "Once I am ready, and once I've developed the cash machine and the camp is stable, I want to go into poli- tics because I know I can get people to believe in them- selves," Mr. August said. 0 ••■■1 IN BRIEF Immimn PATRICIA A. MILNER, Teitel Federation Apartment administrator, participated in the eighth annual Sherman Seminar for Outstanding Young Professionals held at Brandeis University. A native Clevelander, Ms. Milner has been with JFA since March 1987. Her responsibilities include coor- dinating the construction and rent-up of the Harriett and Ben Teitel Federation Apart- ments in Oak Park and developing the JFA newslet- ter, Benaynu. FRED HOOPER has been promoted to senior vice presi- dent, director of creative ser- vices for Stone, August, Baker Communications Companies. SHERRIE WEITZMAN has joined Lionel Trains, Inc. as director. -0o marketing ser- vices. Weitzman will be respons* for media adver- tising, is relations, sales promo and merchandis- ing fo complete line of Lionel -f4acts. EDWA GOLD, senior a d family law - law aw firm of Butzel een elected president oi le nearly 3,500-member Oakland County Bar Association. : • •