The Chairman of the Arts Festival in celebration of the opening of the Mildred Barry Memorial Center for the Arts in Midland City. Fred T. Barry invites Kilgore Trout to be a “distinguished” guest and speaker at the festival as a favor to Eliot Rosewater, an “eccentric millionaire” and Kilgore’s only fan. Barry is also the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Barrytron, Ltd., and he gives Kilgore stock in the company to make him “feel like a member of [their] family.”