artist-in-residence. His first act as artist-in-residence was to create a "How to See" slideshow show for their employees based on what he found around their home office. Former Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry Ted Kooser, who was working at the office at that time, mentioned the impact this slideshow had upon his life in a lecture titled “Out of the Ordinary”. Bankers Life Nebraska also helped sponsor three movies: "A Time to See", "Findings", and "Time Lines". By the 1980s, his popularity and presentations were such a success that Bankers Life Nebraska began scheduling him on tours around the United States to present his thoughts on art and perception. This program was titled "Do you see what I see?" and it was heavily promoted because of the attention it gave to Bankers Life Nebraska. His enlightening personality and artistic perspective won over his crowds during these travels. The "FLURRY" In 1977, Marxhausen started to focus on the need for people to relax and play. His answer to this problem was the "FLURRY," a slinky like toy of honeycombed paper sandwiched between two pieces of cardboard. The material and machine that made it were invented by Robert Geshwender, the president of a Lincoln, Nebraska, manufacturing firm called Plumb Creek, INC. Marxhausen was the one that saw its potential as a toy and came up with the name. Thanks to his presentations for the BCA, Marxhausen had gotten to know Stanley Marcus the CEO of Neiman Marcus luxury stores. The “FLURRY” was first made available for sale at Neiman Marcus because of this friendship. It soon began showing up at other stores and became popular enough that Wham-O toys made a version of it. Later Years Marxhausen retired from Concordia in 1991. In the late 1990s, he began suffering from Alzheimer's disease and left the public spotlight until his death in 2011. His wife Dorris died in 2015. Reinhold had no fear of death and had given a very memorable church service concerning that topic years before. While standing in a wooden coffin, he recited the following poem. My Capsule Just FitsI used to be as afraid of death as anyone else. Even tho we know that Christ has conquered death. My hair used to be black. I'm changing. I'm dying. This is my casket. I paid $130 for it. When it came to my house in a cardboard box as a