William C. Chasey

William Carmen "Bill" Chasey (February 11, 1940 - May 23, 2015[1]) was an American philanthropist who was the founder and president of the Foundation for Corporate Social Responsibility (FCSR) in Warsaw, Poland.

He was an educator, author, research scientist, and inventor who also served as a senior campaign advisor to President Ronald Reagan.

During his lobbying career, Chasey represented some of the world's most prestigious business clients and 23 foreign governments before the United States Congress.

Chasey's professional lobbying ability was captured on film during two episodes of Michael Moore's TV Nation television series in 1994.

[3] 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, D.C.) Chasey was a research scientist in the Convulsive Disorders Clinic of the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine.

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.

Chasey served as an infantry platoon commander, with the 2nd Anti-Tank Battalion, Second Marine Division, at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina.

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.

He helped write all of Reagan's campaign position statements and speeches for church groups and religious organizations.

With the financial support of the American Red Cross in Southeast Europe, 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.

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.

He concludes that the PanAm bombing was wrongfully attributed to the Muammar Gaddafi government and was, in fact, the work of Syria and Iran in response to the USS Vincennes incident.

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 in 1973.

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.