William Shaker:  

CLASS OF 1956
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Downey High SchoolClass of 1956
Downey, CA
Downey, CA

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Life Name: William H. Shaker Occupation: Creative Director and CEO – 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 –Dartmouth 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 rec’d my BS in Industrial Engineering from USC – then American Potash & Chemical – near Death Valley where I commuted to L.A in my Ferrari ’56 racecar – married Joanna Drummond, moved to Michigan and Dow Chemical for 13 years, rec’d 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
urity legislation. From Marquis Who's Who Online: William Haygood Shaker is a subject of biographical record in Marquis Who's Who Publications inclusion in which is limited to individuals who have demonstrated outstanding achievement in their own fields of endeavor and who have, thereby, contributed significantly to contemporary society. 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, 1982—, Heart to Heart Foundation, Arlington, 1982—; CEO Washington Marketing Group, 1987—; president Health PAC, 1994— President RepublicanPac.com, 2000—, Rule of Law Committee, 2001—. 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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Bill and daughter J Egypt Oct 2090
The Big Snow Feb 2010
William Haygood Shaker
William Shaker's Classmates profile album
The Shaker's Virginia Cottage - 1979 to present (2006)
Shaker's block Nationalized Health Care - Successful lawsuit against First Lady Hillary Clinton and her Health Care Task Force - Hillary and her healthcare czar blamed the Shaker's early direct mail for defeat - NYT 9/2 & 9/30/94
The Shaker Kids and Grandkids
Shaker testifies against Nixon's Guaranteed Annual Income Plan
Constitutional Amendment - Bill Shaker, Author
Bill's Ferrari racecar
Fulcans Y Club - Bill is middle row, 5th from left
William and  Joanna Shaker (Bill & Jo)

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