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Employment
Hiram College,
Hiram, Ohio 44234
2007 to present Modeling Future Heroes, Inc. -
president
Motivational keynote speeches, workshops, and seminars on leadership
and conflict-resolution based on the values used by world heroes of
peace - Military, corporate, higher education, civic organizations
1995 to present Hiram College
Hiram, Ohio
Adjunct Faculty -
Design and teach college-level courses
1985 to 2005 Hiram College
Hiram, Ohio
Director Telecommunications, Purchasing,
Collections,
Vice President Hiram College Property
Management, Inc.
1981 to 1984 Firebird Flying School, Inc.
Middlefield, Ohio
Owner and chief flight instructor
1971 to 1980 Hiram Village
Hiram, Ohio
Zoning Inspector, Hiram Village Planning Commission
Chairman, Board of Public Affairs
Chief of Police
1965 to 1971
City of Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Police Officer – City of Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Research – 2000 to Present
For ten
years at Hiram College I researched the leadership characteristics
of world heroes of peace when they were in the midst of a severe
crisis. Magnificent people under a crises and performing at their
best – what values ruled their critical decisions? I was looking
for values common to all these heroes; his findings astonished and
inspired him!
I first
researched the Tuskegee Airmen, a group of black pilots established
in 1941 by the U.S. government as a means to show that blacks have
not the intelligence, courage, or ability to fly or maintain
military aircraft. However, despite cruel discrimination, inferior
equipment, and unreasonable standards the Tuskegee Airmen succeeded
with unprecedented achievements still unmatched today. How?
Researching the Tuskegee Airmen’s leadership qualities revealed
twelve repeated values of remarkable integrity. I then researched
fifty famous world heroes of peace including Nelson Mandela, Dr.
Martin Luther King Jr., Ginetta Sagan, Booker T. Washington, Eleanor
Roosevelt, Mahatma Gandhi, and William Wilberforce. I found these
exceptional heroes employed the same twelve values, plus two others,
bringing the total to fourteen.
Subsequently, I discovered these fourteen values are embraced by
heroes living among garbage dumps in Nicaragua and the shanty-town
ghettoes of South Africa. Regardless of wealth, nationality, gender,
culture, or religion – all the heroes of peace that I studied
applied the same value system when they were performing at their
best.
Courses I Created and Currently Teach
Diversity
through Debate
This course
explores a wide range of diversity issues that pertain specifically
to race and ethnicity. We will study human behavior and see how
prejudice, bias, and discrimination play a role in economics,
politics, and creating a false self-esteem. From the Celts in
England to the Irish, Italians, Chinese, and Latinos in America,
repeated patterns of social discrimination will be explored. How do
instincts such as aggression, jealousy, and dominance play into
these disruptive behavior choices? This is not a course in debating,
but rather where the media of debate will be used as a teaching aid.
Children of the Dump – Nicaragua
This course examines the effects of poverty on economics,
opportunity, and health care in poor countries concentrating on the
real victims – the children. Examining the reasons for extreme
poverty, this course gives particular attention to the United
Nations Millennium Goals and to those who are making a major
difference in the well being of the destitute. The effectiveness of
U.S. government foreign aid and the future hope associated with NGOs
(Non Governmental Organizations) is closely examined.
Modeling Future Heroes -
A Practical Application of Human Values
This is a study of
magnificent people performing magnificently during times of crises,
at
their finest hour, and how we can use their values and
conflict-resolution techniques in our lives. The course will involve
fifty heroes of peace - some rich, some children, some political,
and some living in the depths of squalor. We will study their unique
accomplishments and compare their conflict resolution and problem
solving techniques with their environment (war, social injustice,
poverty, human rights, and equality issues).
The Tuskegee Airmen
– A Study in Group Dynamics and Passive Excellence
This course
involves the group dynamics and leadership theories using the
Tuskegee
Airmen experiment as a basis. We will examine how racism can
be successfully
combated with ethics, and how goal setting, nonverbal
communications, and strong
group leadership can overcome seemingly insurmountable
obstacles. Despite many,
almost insurmountable obstacles intentionally placed in the way of
their success, the
black Tuskegee-trained airmen triumphed over all opposition and
developed into the
most skilled and formidable fighting air force ever known. This
course will attempt to
find answers to the following questions: How could this be when the
architecture of the
Tuskegee Airmen program was designed for failure? How did the
Tuskegee Airmen’s
group dynamics serve as a “substitute” for outside managerial
leadership? How did the
Tuskegee group leaders employ various leadership theories to
successfully overcome
their seemingly impossible obstacles?
Electronic
Crime in Modern Business Cultures
Interdisciplinary – management and physics. Today’s modern
organizations
communicate with electronic gadgets that have not only created new
efficiencies in
business operations, but also opened the door to new opportunities
for fraud, theft,
industrial espionage, and other offenses. How do these devices
operate? How secure
are they for transmitting proprietary information concerning
critical business operations?
How are criminals using these devices to commit crimes, steal
business secrets, and
cost companies millions of dollars in fraud?
Aviation Weather
Many aircraft accidents are
aided by weather. Thunderstorms and other severe
weather are Obvious contributors, but more often high temperatures,
low pressure, and
changing winds are the real culprits. This course deals with the
physics of
aerodynamics and meteorology regarding how an aircraft’s ability to
fly is influenced by
atmospheric conditions. Aircraft aerodynamics (weight, lift,
thrust, drag, Bernoulli’s
Principle) will be interwoven with weather phenomenon influencing
aircraft
performance (air pressure, temperature, lapse rate, wind shear,
density altitude, fronts)
to combine into a fascinating study in physics.
Modern Aviation Principals
This is an
in-depth study of today’s modern ARTCC (Air Route Traffic Control
System) including various
forms of air navigation (pilotage, dead reckoning, radio navigation,
radar vectors, and GPS). Aircraft and
airport radio communications, approach and departure procedures,
in-flight collision avoidance, and runway
incursion incidents will be presented and with visual and instrument
navigation charts. The new aircraft
security and passenger screening as prescribed by Homeland Security
and FAA (Federal Aviation
Administration) and NTSB (National Transportation Safety Board)
regulations will be covered.
Human Trafficking
Is there really any
slavery left in today’s modern World? Didn’t the 1865 Emancipation
Proclamation end slavery in the U.S.? Third only to drugs
and weapon sales, human trafficking is the largest
and fastest growing organized crime activity in the world resulting
in a multi-billion dollar industry. Forced factory and agricultural
labor, the sex trade, debt bondage, domestic help, children
soldiers, and the selling of human organs comprise the many facets
of this contemptible trade.
There are 27 million slaves in the world today secretly held captive
and forced into manual labor and the
sex trade. This is more slaves than existed during the entire 350
years of the Atlantic slave trade. In this
course we will explore the world slavery problem with emphasis on
women and children. The political and economic reasons slavery is so
prolific, the legal and ethical standards that clash with different
cultures, and the undertakings currently trying to combat this
scourge will also be investigated.
Speeches, Workshops, and Seminars that
I Presented
Colleges and Universities
2006 - North West University,
Johannesburg, South Africa
2006 - Tuskegee University, Tuskegee, AL, Black History Month
2008 - Walsh College, Troy, MI
2008 - Mount Wachusett Community College, Boston, Massachusetts
2009 - Babson, College, Babson, Massachusetts
2010 – 2000 Hiram College, Hiram, Ohio
2010 – Case Western Reserve University – International Peace and War
Summit – Panelist
2010 - Human Rights
Museum – Winnipeg, Manitoba – Peaceful Conflict Resolution
2011 – York University, Toronto, Ontario, Master of Ceremonies –
Alliance Against Modern Slavery
U.S. Military
2005, 2006, 2007, 2009 -
Tuskegee Airmen National Convention
2008 - Department of Defense, National Guard, Washington D.C.
2008, 2009 - Travis Air Force Base, California
2008 - Scott Air Force Base, St. Louis, Missouri
2008 - United States Naval Reserves, Cleveland, Ohio
2008 - United States Coast Guard, Cleveland, Ohio
2009 - 110th Fighter Wing - Battle Creek, Michigan
2009 - United States Air Force ROTC, Cleveland, Ohio
2009 - Tuskegee Airmen Central - 2-Day Youth Training Seminar -
Akron, Ohio
2010 - Luke Air Force Base - Phoenix, Arizona
Primary Education
2007 - Grassroots Youth
Entrepreneurship 3-day seminar, high school in Nicaragua
2009 - Royal Oak School System, Royal Oak, Michigan
2007, 2009, 2010 - High School Teacher Recertification - 5-day
seminar, Hiram College
2007, 2008,
2009, 2010, 2011 - Revere Middle School – 5 speeches on Human Values
2008 – Cleveland City Schools
2008 – Area-Q Community Center, Port Elizabeth, South Africa –
neighborhood leaders
2009 – Chagrin Falls, Ohio schools
2010 – Aurora, Ohio schools
Rotary International
2006 - Honeydew Rotary Club of
Pretoria, South Africa
2008 - Rotary International World Peace Conference - Windsor,
Ontario - Opening Speaker
2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 - Rotary District 6630 Conference, Ohio
2009 - Rotary International District 6270 Conference, Elkhart Lake,
Wisconsin
2009 - Rotary International District 6380 Conference, Frankenmuth,
Michigan
2009 - Rotary International District Zone 27-28 Institute, Sandusky,
Ohio
2009 - Rotary International District Zone 31-32 Institute, Niagara
Falls, New York
2010 - Rotary International District 6630 Conference, Sandusky, Ohio
2010 - Rotary International District 5550 & 5580 Conference,
Winnipeg, Manitoba
2010 - Rotary International District 6360 Conference, Kalamazoo,
Michigan
2011 – Rotary International District Conference 6630 – Beachwood,
Ohio
2011 – Rotary International District Conference 7780 – South
Portland, Maine
2011 – Rotary International District Conference – 7860 – Groton,
Connecticut
Developing Endeavors
Case Western
Reserve University, Cleveland – teaching values curriculum in Spring
War and Peace Seminar – Case Western Reserve University – Panel on
child poverty.
Human Rights Museum – Winnipeg, Manitoba – educational programs
Free the Slaves, fighting human trafficking through education and
avocation
Media Appearances
People
Magazine
The Discovery Channel – N.O.W. – Holiday 1-hour special.
abc Good Morning America
CNN News
Channel 3 TV – Cleveland, News
Chanel 5 TV – Cleveland, News
Channel 8 TV – Robin Swoboda Show – May 2010
International Involvement
2006 -
South Africa (Port Elizabeth, Johannesburg, Cape Town) 2006 –
Study poverty in townships and children with AIDS in hospice
centers.
2006 – Nicaragua, Children of the Dump – working with schools and
grass roots entrepreneurship.
2007 - South Africa (Humanitarian projects in townships and Area-Q
in Port Elizabeth)
2007 – Nicaragua, doctors from the Cleveland Clinic on a
need-finding medical mission to pediatric hospitals.
2008 - Nicaragua, Children of the Dump – took fourteen Hiram College
students to study poverty and teach English to school children.
2009 – Nicaragua, the fishing village El Minco, projects for the
Batania Trade School of the Children of the Dump.
2010 – Created and found funding for water well in the Neighbourhood
School in Engoshura, Kenya
2010 – Satellite dish and classroom computers for a school in
Jamaica
2010 – Five-school joint clothing drive for the Children-of-the-Dump
in Nicaragua
2011 – Chinandega, Nicaragua - School of the Blind – sponsor student
through college
Awards and Academic Honors
Phi Beta Kappa – Hiram College
Magna Cum Laude – Hiram College
Honors in Economics – Hiram College
Presidents Achievement Award – Junior Man of the Year – Hiram
College
State of Ohio -
Ohio Senate - community leadership
United States Congress - community leadership
Cleveland City Schools - Tuskegee Airmen values and community
involvement
City of Cleveland - recognition of community contributions
Rotary World Peace Summit - contribution towards world peace
United States Air Force - for Leadership Presentations
Affiliations, Organizations,
Licenses
The Tuskegee Airmen - North
Coast Chapter , Cleveland, Ohio – President
Tuskegee Airmen United States Central Division – 2nd VP –
Youth Education and Training
Hope and Relief International, Inc. – Houston, Texas – Board Member
The National Peace Alliance - member
Mountain Top Removal – (ilove mountains.com)
Rotary International, Aurora, Ohio – past president, current
District Foundation Chair
FAA licensed Commercial pilot, flight instructor, ground school
instructor, CFII MEI AGII
Free the Slaves, Inc. - member
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