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What
was your opinion of Bill and Dwight Rounds?
Did the sons who were given wealth without earning
it have a different attitude toward Rockport
Redwood Company and the business than their
father did? Even Stephen Ambrose in his book
The Wild Blue, which is about George McGovern
and his bomber crew in WWII, talks about Bill’s
wild side.
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According to Merlo, Bill and Dwight Rounds
were “playboys” or just “fun-loving,”
depending on your perspective. Merlo clarified
this observation by saying that Bill and
Dwight “had a limited attention span
for business.” When Bill co-founded,
in 1961, the Breckenridge Ski Area (86 miles
west of Denver, Colorado), he kicked things
off , Merlo said,“by skiing naked
down the slope." Clearly, this showed
off his uninhibited sense of fun—and,
of course, his other assets.
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