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...fall of 1978, Fran Tate had the notion to open a Mexican restaurant in Barrow, Alaska. She had canvassed the town-there are, if you count the transients, roughly 3,000 people there, 80% of them Eskimos-and Mexican food is what they said they favored, overwhelmingly. The more she thought about it, the more she liked the idea, and one day, in a fit of enterprise, she seized a board, a piece of two-by-four, it being the nearest thing at hand, and drew her plans on it-the kitchen, the dining room seating arrangement, all that. Fran...
...Fran Tate is cut of similar cloth. Beside her yearbook picture from her high school in Auburn, Wash., where she held down a newspaper route and set pins in a bowling alley, was written, "By the work one knows the workman." Fran thought this sketch of her character "was awful. Everyone else's said, 'To the best-looking girl in school,' that sort of thing. I thought what a dud I was." Today she owns a sewage-disposal service in Barrow, as well as a water-delivery service, as well as Pepe...
Then again, not too many goalies approach the game like Tate...
...like the intensity of the position, the pressure," Tate says...
Considering where she started from, though, Tate's success story is near-inspirational. "Ice hockey was always my favorite sport," she recalls, "but my high school didn't have a girls' team, and I couldn't skate well enough to make a boys' team...