| William C. Chasey | |
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| Personal details | |
| Born | February 11, 1940 New Jersey |
| Nationality | American |
| Residence | Warsaw, Poland |
| Alma mater | Springfield College |
| Profession | Philanthropist Author Inventor (patent) Screenwriter |
| Military service | |
| Service/branch | United States Marine Corps |
William Carman “Bill” Chasey (born February 11, 1940) is the founder and President of the Foundation for Corporate Social Responsibility in Warsaw, Poland. He is an educator, author, research scientist, inventor, and served as a senior campaign advisor to President Ronald Reagan.
Chasey founded the Foundation for Corporate Social Responsibility in the Republic of Poland. The Foundation is an international network of corporate CEOs working in Poland to affect positive social change through targeted corporate philanthropy. With Chasey's inspiration, the Foundation is a hands on training ground for multinational firms to inculcate the values of corporate social responsibility in the communities in which they work. The Foundation's mission is to mentor senior corporate leaders, giving them skills for developing corporate social responsibility values in their firms. The primary focus of the Foundation is to serve needy Polish children. The Foundation’s 90 members include CEOs of some of the world’s largest and most well-regarded corporations from a diverse and broad range of industry sectors. To date, the Foundation has fed over 4 - million meals to needy Polish children, and presently feeds 60,000 meals each month to 3,000 kids in 15 Polish Schools.
Chasey was founder and President of the William Chasey Organization a Washington, DC lobbying firm from 1975-1998. During his lobbying career, Chasey represented some of the world's most prestigious business clients and 23 foreign governments before the United States Congress. He was a Registered Lobbyist with both the Clerk of the United States House of Representatives and the Secretary of the United States Senate as required by the Lobbying Disclosure Act. He was a Registered Foreign Agent, United States Department of Justice. (RFA Number 4221) as required by the Foreign Agents Registration Act. The success of Chasey's professional lobbying ability was captured on film during two episodes of Michael Moore's TV Nation television series in 1994, and these film clips remain hugely popular on the subject of successful Washington lobbying. Because of Chasey's lobbying talents, TV Nation was recognized by the United States Congress by passing Resolution H.J. 365, which declared August 16, 1994 as "TV Nation Day."[1] TV Guide named TV Nation one of the ten best television shows of 1995.[2]
Dr. Chasey held the John F. Kennedy Professorship at the Peabody College of Education and Human Development of Vanderbilt University, (Named Academic Professorship funded by the Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. Foundation, Washington, DC). Chasey was a Research Scientist in the Convulsive Disorders Clinic of the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. He served as a Senior Scientist in the Institute on Mental Retardation and Intellectual Development (IMRID), and as a Senior Scientist in the Laboratory of Intrinsic Motivation, and as Chairman of the Research Ethics Committee at the Peabody College of Education and Human Development of Vanderbilt University 1972–1975.
Chasey is the author of over 100 research investigations and publications in the field of mental retardation. He is the author of "3 books". http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=william+c.+chasey&x=0&y=0. and 1 screenplay. He invented 3 research instruments to measure psychomotor learning of mentally retarded children.
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Chasey was born in Trenton, New Jersey to William Carman Chasey and Hazel Marie Chasey. He grew up in a working class family and was influenced greatly during his school years by his association with the YMCA and his church. Chasey’s father was a graduate of Massanutten Military Academy in Woodstock, Virginia. He made his living in sales and ended his career as a sales representative for a large milk company in New Jersey.
Dr. Chasey attended public schools in Trenton, New Jersey and graduated from Pennsbury High School in Yardley, Pennsylvania. He received his B.S. degree in Physical Education from Springfield College (MA) in 1962, where he was a member of the gymnastics and track teams. He was Vice President of his graduating class, and was elected Senior Class Graduation Marshall.
Chasey received his M.A degree in Education from East Carolina University in 1965 while serving as a Marine Corps Officer at the Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. He was elected a member of Phi Delta Kappa, the National Honorary Education Fraternity.
Chasey received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Maryland in 1969 while serving as an Instructor at the University. His academic concentration was the psychomotor development of mentally retarded children.
Dr. Chasey was awarded an LH.D, Doctor of Humane Letters, (honoris causa) Literarum Humanarum Doctor, Honorary Doctorate, (Humanitarian Excellence), from National University (California) in 1985 for his work in lobbying the Central American Peace Plan through the US Congress.
Chasey is married to Virginia Chasey, his wife of 31 years. He has two daughters, Cherie and Christie, from a previous marriage. He and Virginia have one daughter Katie, a Psychology Major at Seattle Pacific University. Virginia Chasey serves with her husband on the Management Board of the Foundation for Corporate Social Responsibility. They enjoy golf, swimming and theater and are active in a variety of Christian activities.
Chasey joined the United States Marine Corps in 1958 during his freshman year in college. He trained during his college summers to become a Marine Corps Officer at the Marine Base in Quantico, Virginia. Upon his graduation from College, he was commissioned a second lieutenant and attended the Officers Basic School at the Quantico Marine Base, from June, 1962 to December 1962. He graduated with a Military Occupational Specialty of Infantry Officer (0302) United States military occupation code. Chasey served as an infantry platoon commander, with the 2nd Anti-Tank Battalion, Second Marine Division, at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. He deployed to the Caribbean in 1963 with the 3rd Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment as part of Battalion Landing Team 3/6. In 1964, he was transferred to the 2nd Marine Division Headquarters to organize and direct the All-Marine Corps Boxing Championships. He was promoted to the rank of 1st Lieutenant in 1963. He attended a variety of Marine Corps schools including: the Marine Corps Officers Basic School, Nuclear-Biological-Chemical Warfare School, Cold Weather Survival School, Escape and Evasion School, and the Explosive Ordinance School.
Chasey was awarded the National Defense Service Medal for honorable active military service during the time of war or conflict as a member of the United States Armed Forces, (Vietnam War Period).
He received an Honorable Discharge May 1967.
During 1979-80, Chasey served as Director of Domestic Policy for the John B. Connally Presidential Campaign. He was a traveling advisor to Gov. Connally in Presidential Primary and Caucus States. When Governor Connally withdrew from the race, Chasey became a principal advisor to the 1980 Presidential Campaign of Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush.
Chasey created and directed the first Nationwide Christian Voter Registration Program for Candidate Ronald Reagan. He helped write all of Reagan’s campaign position statements and speeches for church groups and religious organizations. He helped select Reagan’s campaign appearances and accompanied him to all religious events during the campaign. He arranged meetings for candidate Reagan with major church and evangelical leaders throughout the country. Louis Harris attributed the Reagan-Bush victory in 1980 to the Christian voter program and registration block directed by Dr. Chasey.
He was a key fundraiser for the 1988 Presidential Campaign of George H. W. Bush.
Over the course of 20 years as a Washington Lobbyist, Chasey advised and raised campaign funds for numerous campaigns for Governor, House of Representatives and the United States Senate.
Dr. Chasey was a founder of the Cause Marketing concept, and he continues to be a leading proponent of Cause Related Marketing throughout the Globe. He has either created, consulted with, or directed 19 different NGOs and/or charities during his career. He consulted and advised 23 National Red Cross Societies throughout the world, and served for over 3 years as Principal Consultant to the Polish Red Cross where he created a major Cause Related Marketing Campaign called the “Care Partners Network.” With the financial support of the American Red Cross in Southeast Europe, Dr. Chasey served for three-years as a Cause Marketing Consultant to the Bulgarian Red Cross in the development of a “Care Partners Network,” which still provides hot meals to poor Bulgarian Children each school day.
He has received numerous national and international awards, including an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters (LH.D) from National University (California) for his lobbying efforts for the Central American Peace Plan, Esquipulas Peace Agreement, on behalf of Nobel Peace Laureate, President Oscar Arias of Costa Rica, author of the plan.
Chasey and his wife Virginia, founded the Third World Prosthetic Foundation. They were honored by President Cristiani of El Salvador for their work on behalf of the war-torn country's amputee population of soldiers and children. They provided over 1,000 prosthetic devices to land mine victims.
Chasey’s first two successful non-fiction books, Foreign Agent 4221, and Pan Am 103, the Lockerbie Cover-up, drawn from personal experience, tell the story of Chasey’s attempt to normalize relations between the U.S. and Libya over the bombing of Pan Am 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988. They tell how he went to Libya, a sanctioned country, and met with Col. Muammar Gaddafi and the two Libyan Intelligence Agents indicted for the Pan Am bombing. He concludes that the PanAm bombing was wrongfully attributed to the Gaddafi regime and was, in fact, the work of Syria and Iran in response to the Vincennes incident. His book Pan Am 103, the Lockerbie Cover-up is banned from export from the US on Amazon and Chapters suggesting that the allegation of coverup is factual. 'Truth Never Dies', Chasey’s third book is now in publication. It is also drawn from personal experience and tells how Chasey’s life was destroyed by the U.S. Government as a result of his efforts to help normalize relations between the U.S. and the Government of Libya.
Chasey has written a screenplay based on his book by the same name, "Truth Never Dies."
Dr. Chasey invented, a Stabilometer Computerized Analog Recording System (SCARS), through a grant from the Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. Foundation in 1974. He invented a Serial Stacker for Measuring Gross Motor Learning by Young Retarded Children, through a Biomedical Research Grant, from the National Institutes of Health in1973. Chasey, along with James Hogge, invented, A Curve Smoothing Program for Plotting a Predictive Value for a Polynomial Fitted for an IBM 1130 Computer, through a grant from the Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. Foundation in 1974.
Chasey, W.C. and Wyrick, W. Effects of a gross motor development program on form perception skills of educable mentally retarded children. Research Quarterly, 1970, 41,345-351.
Chasey, W.C. Motor skill development effects on learning by retarded children. Mental Retardation, 1970, 65, 121-123.
Chasey, W.C. A clinical approach to motor development for retarded children. Mental Retardation, 1970, 65, 23-27.
Chasey, W.C. and Wyrick, W. Effects of a physical developmental program on psychomotor ability of retarded children. American Journal of Mental Deficiency, 1971, 75, 124-133.
Chasey, W.C. Affective learning through a psychomotor program for retarded children. Research Quarterly, 1971, 42, 96-98.
Chasey, W.C. Overlearning as a variable in the retention of gross motor skills by the mentally retarded. Research Quarterly, 1971, 42, 145-149.
Chasey, W.C. and Knowles, C.S. Effects of gross motor skill overlearning on retention by mentally retarded males. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1973, 36, 503-509.
Chasey, W.C., Swartz, J. and Chasey, C.A. Effect of motor development on body image scores in institutionalized mentally retarded children. American Journal of Mental Deficiency. 1974, 78, 440-445.
Swartz, J. and Chasey, W.C. Motor development and body image: A reply to Ball. American Journal of Mental Deficiency, 1974, 79,227-228.
Chasey, W.C., Barth, J., Cini, A., Martin, H., and Pupke, W. A computerized analog recording system for the stabilometer. Behavioral Research Methods and Instrumentation, 1975, Vol. 7 (6), 553-556.
Chasey, W.C. and Chasey, C.A. Effect of a physical developmental program on the self-concept of trainable mentally retarded children. American Journal of Mental Deficiency, 1975, 79, 380-383.
Chasey, W.C. Distribution of practice effects on learning, retention and relearning by retarded boys. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1976, 43, 159-164.
Chasey, W.C., Barth, J., Cini, A., Martin, H., and Pupke, W. A stabilometer computerized analog recording system for measuring motor learning. Research Quarterly, 1976, Vol. 47, 524-525.
Chasey, W.C. Motor skill overlearning effects on retention and relearning by retarded boys. Research Quarterly, March, 1977, Vol. 48, 41-46.
Chasey, W.C., Haywood, H.C., and Tzuriel, D. Effects of various stimuli on activity level and learning by high and low active retarded children. Research Quarterly, May, 1977, Vol. 48, No. 2, 265-269.
Listed in “The Compendium Persons of Eminence in the Filed of Exceptional Children.”
Listed in "Who’s Who in American Education."
Fellow, American Academy of Mental Retardation.
Fellow, American Academy of Sports Medicine.
Fellow, American Academy of Sports Psychology.
Fellow, Council for Exceptional Children.
Advisor, Presidential Commission on Olympic Sports
Advisor, President's Council on Fitness, Sports, and Nutrition
Delegate, White House Conference on the Handicapped
Awarded the Bulgarian Red Cross “Gold Medal of Honor” for creating and directing a National Care Partners Network for Bulgaria. The network of leading corporations provided hot meals for 1,000 poor Bulgarian children each school day.
Awarded the "Child's Friend" award in 2006. For 60 years, this honorary medal has been awarded to individuals and institutions involved in social work for the benefit of children in the Republic of Poland.
Chasey has a Commercial Pilot License, Multi-Engine Rating, and Instrument Rating from the Federal Aviation Administration of the United States Department of Transportation. He has approximately 2,000 hours as Pilot in Command.
Truth Never Dies [1]
Foundation for Corporate Social Responsibility [2]