Greg O'Connors Biography

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GREGORY B. O’CONNOR - PRESIDENT, AMERICHRIS FOUNDATION

1958-62	*CRETIN HIGH SCHOOL, ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA* This was an Army ROTC high school taught by the Christian Brothers. I graduated with a deep sense of civic responsibility, continuing self education and the requirements of citizenship.
1962-64	*UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA* Associate of Arts Degree
1964-65	*U.S. MARINE CORPS (ACTIVE)*
1965-70	*U.S. MARINE CORPS (RESERVE)*
1966-68	*MEMBER, JUNIOR CHAMBER OF COMMERCE* Rookie of the year Honors, 1966
1968-present	*SMALL BUSINESS OWNER*
1968-83	CO-FOUNDER & PRESIDENT, H2O ENTERPRISES, INC. A company providing themed entertainment for corporate meetings and conventions
1983-present	CO-FOUNDER & PRESIDENT, ENTERTAINMENT THEMES, INC. A corporate services company providing theme entertainment and incentive travel programs
1974-present	*MEMBER, THE CONSERVATIVE CAUCUS* A national, grass roots lobbying organization
1975-79	*CO-FOUNDER & PRESIDENT, THE MINNESOTA VOTERS COALITION* A coalition of Minnesota single issue groups for the purpose of cross education identifying common concerns and interviewing candidates for public office.
1978-85	*MEMBER, ROTARY CLUBS INTERNATIONAL* Service Above Self Award 1980
1979-present	*FOUNDER & PRESIDENT, THE AMERICHRIS FOUNDATION* A 501(C)(3) educational, non-profit foundation. Our purpose was to provide for the research and dissemination of educational materials and ideas on issues of freedom, limited government, personal responsibility and civil society.
1985-present	*MEMBER, THE LUDWIG VON MISES INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF FREE MARKET ECONOMICS* A supporter of the Austrian School of Economics. The Institute promotes and encourages the study and dissemination of free market economic materials to universities, colleges, high schools and interested individuals.
1990-present	*SUPPORTING MEMBER, HILLSDALE COLLEGE, HILLSDALE, MICHIGAN*
1990-present	*MEMBER, BOARD OF DIRECTORS, LEUKEMIA RESEARCH FUND OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION* The fund seeks a cure for leukemia through financing research grants for innovative scientific inquiry
1993-present	*MEMBER, AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION RUNNING CLUB* Eighteen marathons completed - 3:45 PR

HOBBIES:	*READING, TRAVEL, RUNNING*

TRAVEL:
1980-present	*MANY PARTS OF EUROPE... ASIA... AND CENTRAL AMERICA*
2003	CHINA A three week tour through China, meeting with: members of the Communist Party former members of Mao Zedong’s Red Guard members of the intellectual community who were persecuted during the Cultural Revolution 1966-1976 Participated in discussions and seminars about the history of Communism, its effects on the Chinese people and opening of the country to western free market systems
2003	RUSSIA A three week tour through Russia and some of its former East Block satellites To study the effects of Soviet Communism on the people. Russia’s present state of affairs after the collapse of Communism. Discussions with former members of the Communist Party. Seminars with Professor Ludmilla Selezneva on Russian history with emphasis on 1980 to the present. Touring through Poland, the home of Lech Walesa and Solidarity, who’s activities precipitated the communist collapse throughout the Soviet Union. Touring through the Czech Republic, home to Vaclav Havel, the essayist and human rights advocate most responsible for the fall of the Communist government in Czechoslovakia.

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