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To: MulhollandDrive who wrote (7181)	9/28/1999 10:34:00 PM
From: Mike Buckley	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 54805

OFF TOPIC Thanks to everyone for the interest in my young friend. His name is Brent Harris. If you are familiar with the AOL screen name, BH Apollo, that's him. While associated with the Fool, his moniker was MF Apollo. bp asked: Was your young friend self-taught or did he have a mentor? We can thank baseball, or rather the lack of it, for Brent's initial interest in the stock market. Not being able to follow baseball during the year of the strike, he became intrigued with stocks. To the extent that anyone is self-taught when being educated by Fool articles, folders like this one (though none I've seen are as good), and other sources of information, he was (is) entirely self-taught. By the time he was 15 he had read books by and about J. P. Morgan, Peter Lynch, Warren Buffet, and others. I take a lot of pride that in some ways it's probably fair to say that I was his mentor. It wasn't that I was the kind of mentor to which he aspired. With the likes of Lynch and Buffet as the competition in that category, I'm not disappointed! :) Instead, I might have been his mentor more in the ways we spent a LOT of time communicating about investments, running valuations, researching management teams, etc., etc., etc. But I gotta tell you that for every way I was his mentor, he was my mentor. He would challenge me and generally accepted conventional thinking with regard to just about anything: valuation, diversification, management, analysts, expected growth of a particular industry, and other stuff. A lot of that came to light during our 2 1/2-year management of a paper portfolio that was by design somewhat experimental. By the way, if you have The Motley Fool Workbook, you'll see credit given to him. He was one of the dozen or so people who wrote sections of the first draft of the workbook before turning it over to David and Tom Gardner for fine tuning. If I remember correctly, he was 16 at the time, but he might have been only 15. --Mike Buckley