Bill Hayes
Also See: Bill Hayes, Rebel With A Cause
1971-1975
Member of the Professional Golf Association (P.G.A) of America. Player and instructor of professional golf.
1975-1978
Member of the New York Stock Exchange, Raymond James and Associates, St. Petersburg, Florida. Certified Financial Planner
1978-1981
Special education instructor, Pinellas County Schools. Assigned to a comprehensive middle school.
1978
Co Founder of the Chi Chi Rodriguez Youth Foundation, a foundation dedicated to the education and rehabilitation of abused and disadvantaged children.
1978 -2005
President of the Chi Chi Rodriguez Youth Foundation.
1993 - Present
H&G - Hayes-Gallagher Associates, Inc., President
NOTABLE ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
- Designed, developed and successfully implemented the only vocationally based academic learning program on a golf course in the world.
- Developed the only "tax exempt status" public golf course for the specific purpose of education and tourism.
- Developed and constructed a complete championship golf course which includes an educational complex on the course property.
- 1989 - Raised the most money to date ($987,000) in a one day golf tournament with Jack Nicklaus and Chi Chi Rodriguez.
- 1990 - Raised the most money to date ($1.01 million) in a one day golf tournament with Jack Nicklaus and Chi Chi Rodriguez.
- Appeared before and addressed the United States Secretary of Education as well as the Democratic and Republican Committees on Education Reform and Funding in the United States.
- 1985 - Best Golf and Education Program for Youth in America by Golf Digest.
- 1986 - Best Golf and Education Program for Youth in America by the National Golf Foundation.
- 1989 - Sports Achiever of the Year by Pinellas County Sports Authority (Foundation).
- 1992 - 758th Point of Light Award for education and youth. Presented by President Bush of the United States (Foundation).
- 1993 - American Education Award (Foundation and Chi Chi Rodriguez)
TELEVISION, MEDIA APPEARANCES AND PROGRAMS:
- ABC Television - Good Morning America
- ABC Television - National Evening News
- CBS Television - National Evening News
- NBC Television - National Evening News
- CNN Television - ESPN World News Special
- P.M. Magazine
- Telemundo Television
MAGAZINE ARTICLES:
- Wall Street Journal
- Golf Illustrated
- Sports Illustrated
- Chicago Tribune
- Reader's Digest
- Miami Herald
- People Magazine
- Orlando Sentinel
- Golf Digest
- L.A. Times
- Golf World (Feature Cover)
- Newsweek Magazine
- San Francisco Chronicle
- Life Magazine
- Japanese Golf World
- Washington Post
- West Palm Beach Post
- Business Week
- Tampa Bay Magazine (Cover)
- Golf Week (Feature Cover)
EDUCATION:
- Kelvinside Academy - Glasgow, Scotland
- Plainfield High School - Plainfield, New Jersey
- Wagner College - 1970, B.A., New York City
- New York Stock Exchange School - 1975, Atlanta, Georgia
- University of Tampa - 1979, M.A. program, Tampa, Florida
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