Rutherford hopes this new chest protector will be used by women for other sports like soccer, jogging and aerobics. You can see he means it. Rutherford is big on ideas. The glasses perched on his nose do nothing to hide the determination in his eyes. His grey- haired head is constantly coming up with ways to make things more efficient.
Rutherford is a man on a mission.
But these days he knows how to slow down. He took a look at his life when his eldest brother died at 62. Rutherford was 52 and he was working too much. I thought, hell, if I was only to live for another 10 years I had better start enjoying myself. I figured I had been a workaholic for 30 years.