William Shaker:
CLASS OF 1956
Downey High SchoolClass of 1956
Downey, CA
Downey Elementary SchoolClass of 1950
Downey, CA
William's Story
Life
Name: William H. Shaker
Occupation: Creative Director and CEO Â Washington Marketing Group (TWMG.com) Registered Professional Engineer (CA)
Family: Wife, Joanna (Jo), President  Washington Marketing Group, Registered Nurse; Children: J Scanlin  President, Partners Press; Marylee Verdi -- R.N., certified ICU/ER nurse ÂDartmouth Medical School Hospital; Twins: Marcus Shaker, M.D., Professor of Medicine, Dartmouth Medical School; and Matthew Shaker, Principal, SRA, International. Five grandchildren.
Interests: Conservative politics, pubic policy, racecars, computers, our lab puppy  Abby Boo.
Let me tell you what has been going in my life . . . since this Falcon graduated from DHS in 1956 . . .
First Job at North American, part-time while attending various colleges in Southern California. After a break for active duty in CA National Guard, I recÂd my BS in Industrial Engineering from USC  then American Potash & Chemical  near Death Valley where I commuted to L.A in my Ferrari Â56 racecar  married Joanna Drummond, moved to Michigan and Dow Chemical for 13 years, recÂd MS  Systems Engineering from University of Michigan. While in Michigan, I wrote a tax limitation Constitutional Amendment and secured its passage; then on to Arlington, VA near DC where I served as VP at National Legal Center for the Public Interest, and Ex. VP, National Tax Limitation Committee  while wife Jo founded and operated Total Patient Care, a 500 person home health care nursing agency. Jo and I founded Washington Marketing Group, a direct mail and fundraising agency in 1987, which we still operate today. We also founded the nonprofit American Council for Health Care Reform, where we serve as voluntarypresident & chairman. Hillary Clinton blamed ACHCR for defeat of her 1994 Clinton health care initiative. I am also voluntary president of RepublicanPac.com and the Rule of Law Committee that is currently engaged in a grassroots effort to pass effective border sec...Expand for more
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From Marquis Who's Who Online:
William Haygood Shaker is a subject of biographical record in
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BS in Engineering, University Southern California, 1964
MS in Engineering, University Michigan, 1969
Certification
Registered professional engineer, California
Career
Executive Dow Chemical Co., Midland, Michigan, 1966-78; vice president National Legal Center for the Pub. Interest, Washington, 1979; executive vice president National Tax Limitation Committee, 1980-86; president Am. Council for Health Care Reform, Arlington, Virginia, 1982Â, Heart to Heart Foundation, Arlington, 1982Â; CEO Washington Marketing Group, 1987Â; president Health PAC, 1994Â
President RepublicanPac.com, 2000Â, Rule of Law Committee, 2001Â.
Creative Works
Author: Health Care Reform, 1994, also legis. and government publications; editor: Electric Power Reform, 1979; editor, pub. millennium edition The Man of Galilee, 2001; contributor articles to professional journals
Civic
Founder, chairman Taxpayers United, Michigan, 1972-84.
Memberships
Member Governmental Research Association (most effective presentation of governmental research award 1973), Direct Marketing Association (Echo award 1982-2006, Maxi award 1987-2006), Public Relations Society (Silver Anvil 1979), Am. Conservative Union (Health Care Reform award 1995).
Family
son of Elmer Son and Marylee Shaker; married Joanna Drummond, January 28, 1966; children: J Catherine Patricia, Marylee, Marcus, Matthew.
Republican; Lutheran
William Haygood Shaker's biography appeared in the following Marquis publications: Who's Who in America (7 editions), Who's Who in the World (8 editions), Who's Who In Finance and Business (5 editons), and Who's Who in the South (3 editions).
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