| Paul holds a B.S.
in Marketing Management from the University of Southern Mississippi. He is
married to Pam who is originally from Horseheads, NY. They met over the
internet and after seeing each other for a couple of years and running up
their phone bills, they finally decided to tie the knot in 1999.
They both work together running their two
businesses. Tarver Program Consultants, Inc. which develops custom data
interfaces between software applications for customers in 23 states. They
also own and manage a local computer hardware sales and service business
in Meridian named Quality PC. In 2004, Tarver Program Consultants is
celebrating it's 12th Anniversary. Paul also writes and publishes software
and has developed two products used by customers nationwide: CruiseCalc
and Call List Scrubber.
Paul got involved with ROW, through Thomas
Webb who is a trustee with ROW. Their friendship dates back to 1991
when they met in the Atlanta airport. Thomas was returning to Meridian
from a trip to Florida and Paul was returning from a trip to Boston. Their
mutual love of computers and gadgets soon surfaced and they have been
friends and business associates ever since.
After seeing the work that Thomas was doing
for ROW, Paul wanted to get involved, but the nature and finances of his
businesses prevented him from taking time off to go out of the country on
a regular basis. So, Paul waited for an opportunity. That opportunity came
one day at the end of 1999 when Thomas asked Paul to take over the
maintenance of the ROW website. Paul knew it was the chance of a lifetime
and he snatched it up.
The truth of the matter is, maybe you can't
go and be a missionary in a foreign place. Maybe you can't donate millions
of dollars. Maybe you can't do anything extraordinary. But every
organization like ROW needs ordinary people doing ordinary things
everyday, in order for the extraordinary to happen.
When Paul and Pam got married, Pam had two
beautiful children, Alicia and Danny, from a previous marriage. On August
18th, 2001, Alicia died from injuries sustained in an automobile accident.
She was sixteen years old. Two weeks before the accident, she told Pam and
Paul that if something ever happened to her she did not want to stay on a
respirator and she wanted to donate her organs. Pam and Paul respected her
wishes and now there are many people who have benefited from her
generosity. Paul is currently writing a book about the experience that he
hopes to publish soon. If you want to know more about the organ donation process you
can click here.
Alicia wanted to
be a marine biologist which in most cases would have led her to teach
others in some way. She wanted to do field research and go all over the
world. She wanted to swim with the dolphins and to help people learn more
about the animals living in the rivers and seas of the world. It is
therefore appropriate that an Educational Fund has been established with
Rivers of the World in her name. Thomas Webb is the founder of the fund
and the Tarvers are eternally grateful to him for doing so. If you would
like to contribute to this fund to provide educational materials to the
children all over the world please click here
and make a donation today. Indicate on the form that your donation is for
the Alicia Hoover Educational Fund. You can also download
the ROW Screensaver and for a donation of $15 access the full version and
all of the money will go directly to the Educational Fund.
Alicia Hoover
Feb 27, 1985 - August 18, 2001
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