The Gathering Wine’s Mannequin finally has a name, and what a fitting name it is! Congratulations to Kevin Cullen on his winning entry in the mannequin contest. Allow us to introduce Mandy Quin! Read up on her story below, and be sure to get a photo with her on your next visit to the Gathering Wine.
You can read the winning entry here:
Relatives: Duke “The mighty” Quin (Father – native eskimo/musical legend, Harley Quin (sister-supervillian/waitress at Dennys), Harley Davidson (Step brother – bike builder Milwaukee Wisconsin ), Maude Segur Davidson Quin (mother- Pauillac Bordeau France)
Ex Boyfriends: Eugene Cernan
Current Address: 235 South Main Findlay Ohio; Former addresses: Plumb Brook Station 3597 E Scheid Rd, Sandusky, OH 44870; 88th Air Base Wing Wright Patterson Air Force Base , Dayton Ohio
Education: Long Beach Polytechnic High School; Berkley School of Music BA; Masters in Fluid Dynamics MIT; PhD in Aerodynamics/Flight Platform Designs MIT; Master of Wine ONE
Past Employment: Piano Bar in Soho; NASA rocket scientist – fluid systems Apollo prof.; Skunk works flight design and implementation; Gathering Wine non-verbal spokesperson
Mandy Quin (pronounced mandikin) is the daughter of a musical legend from way up north and a mother with deep roots in French Wine country. Almost from birth, her hunger for knowledge and thirst for answers powered her through an eclectic existence and a journey that led her to our front door. After becoming Valedictorian at her high school (some alums are Snoop Dog, Cameron Diaz, Carl Weathers and Nate Thiebaud) she went on to master music at Berkley. Her Musical passion drew he away from her Cali lifestyle to the city that never sleeps and a house gig in SOHO. But there in lay the problem, her piano gigs barely paid for the wine habit she developed due to her mother’s French wine heritage. One does not purchase a Chateau Latour from the tip jar.
Necessity was the cab that whisked her to graduate school at MIT where she was top of her class and eventually landed a job in the space industry. Her work on the Saturn V motor helped to send America to the moon and back. By this time, Mandy had a nice little wine stash at her Sandusky Ohio apartment but when the Apollo program shut down , she was once again, out of a job and forced to drink pavement pounders. It was Kismet when MIT offered a full fellowship which put her back in the two most important things in her life: Wine and Academia.
She received her PhD and was courted by the US Air Force to work on stealth aerodynamics for the F-177 Nighthawk. This job secured her financial freedom and cemented her name in the annals of flight next to Amelia Earhart. But as this story started, her hunger for knowledge and thirst for answers was insatiable and she eventually left government work to pursue her love of Wine, receiving a master’s in wine. And now, here we are in the present.
This maverick of a girl decided to spend the rest of her life at the only place in the world she would never hunger for a 5 star meal or thirst for a Chateau Lafite. The Gathering Wine! And why would she ever desire to move. The staff is always friendly to her and knowledgeable, the Chef’s ever changing menu keeps her completely interested and satisfied, and they never seem to run out of the best Outfits Couture to dress her in. So next time you’re downtown Findlay, stop by The Gathering Wine and say hi to Mandy. Does she have some stories to tell YOU!
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