As much as man plans, twists of fate shape life

Dr. Jim Tollet was a professor when Antoine Albin was a student at Southern Arkansas University. Mr. Antoine graduated and Dr. Tollet came to Texas as the first head of the agriculture department at Northeast Texas Community College.

“I was working in sales for a feed mill when Dr. Tollet called me and told me I needed to call a guy named Scott Glover who’d left his family’s feed mill in Mt. Pleasant to manage an old mill in Little Rock,” Mr. Albin said. “He didn’t know Scott but he knew he came from a family that knew the business.”
The introduction kindled a relationship that years later brought Mr. Albin to Texas as the manager of Mid America Pet Food when it was a start up operation.

“The business success we’ve had began with that introduction years before,” Mr. Glover said. “It happened because of all that I learned in the years I had the good fortune to work watching my parents building their business. It happened when Antoine decided to study agriculture because he grew up running cattle. It happened because Dr. Tollet decided to come to Texas. There are so many twists of fate in life, moments when ten minutes either way changes an outcome, a call you take or a call you miss guides the paths we choose. There’s so much in play that we don’t control that persuades me that it’s not us. It’s God.”