Jacques Vroom
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{{ | name = Jacques Vroom | birthdate = July 28, 1944 (age 62) | birthname = Jacques Edward Vroom, Jr. | location = 
Dallas, Texas, USA | height = 6' 5" (1.96 m) }}
Jacques Edward Vroom, Jr. (born July 28, 1944) is a leading expert in direct marketing, narrator of the 2004 documentary Bush's Brain, and is a world traveller alledged to have accrued more AAdvantage miles than anyone else in history. But he is perhaps best well known for being half of The Jack and Harry Show duo in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The Jack and Harry Show was a radio show on KERA, the Dallas PBS station, that combined 1950s music with clever banter between the two hosts and guests, many of them fictional.
[edit] Biography
[edit] Early life
Vroom was born in Dallas, Texas, the son of a naval officer, and eventually became the oldest of five children. Because his father was in the Navy, Jacques Jr.'s early years were spent in various American cities. He eventually settled in to The Hill School in Pottstown, Pennsylvania.
Vroom attended Williams College with the class of 1966. But he did not graduate until 1996, as he was one credit short of his requirements until then.
[edit] Career
Vroom's career began in the late sixties as a photographer, under the business name "Photophelia." But shortly after meeting Roger Horchow in 1969, also a graduate of The Hill School, Vroom joined what wold become The Horchow Collection and was trained as a buyer, under Horchow.
