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	Bronze Odyssey Kilby sculpture sends local artist on 11-year journey


	Chet Cale stands in the foreground of “The Gift,” a sculpture he has been involved with for nearly a dozen years. “I’ve been in the ups and downs of it and there were thoughts of giving up, but as an artist, you never give up,” said Cale. “You can’t quit when there’s an opportunity of a lifetime ... View Larger

As a lifelong “Great Bender” and a child of the 1960s, artist Chet Cale was like most other locals from his generation. He didn’t know anything about Jack Kilby, who also grew up in Great Bend. Then in November 2000, Cale was approached about the possibility of sculpting a bust of the man who was on the brink of winning the Nobel Prize in Physics for his microchip invention. It was during that moment ...

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