Mr. Robert Louis Stevenson, III is a native son of Lambert, Mississippi. As a youth growing up in the Mississippi Delta, for twelve years he worked as a laborer in the cotton fields. At the age of eighteen years he entered the United States army and served in an artillery battalion for four years. After returning home from Germany, he entered the United States Air Force where he served for sixteen years in various administrative positions. After retiring from military service, for the next twenty three years he worked both as an insurance agent and as an automobile salesman. Presently, he is credited with over twenty years as an employee with the United States Treasury Department. Mr. Stevenson holds a B. A. Degree in Retail Marketing from Avila College (now Avila University), Kansas City, Missouri.