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	The McGowan Fund
		McGowan led that company and the entire telecommunications industry in the application of new technologies, the creation of innovative services, and the introduction of competition into what had previously been a closed monopolistic universe.
		William G. McGowan was born and raised in the coal country of Pennsylvania, the son of a second generation Irish railroad engineer and a hard working school teacher.
		The McGowan Charitable Fund is proud to assist in these diverse areas of assistance to the young, the infirm and to those seeking an education that may lead to entrepreneurial successes and business leadership in the mold of Bill McGowan.
	www.mcgowanfund.org /mcgowan.html (978 words)

	WalTom Racing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Bill was born and raised in Grand Rapids, Michigan where he lives with his wife Carol.
		Bill works for Kent County during the week and spends his weekends at the race shop, working with the team and making sure that everything is on track.
		Bill has been involved in racing since he was 12 years old when he started helping a neighbor with his racecar.
	www.waltomracing.com /2003_team/mcgowan.htm (180 words)

	Bill McGowan Obituary
		McGowan believed an umpire should always have "tact in dealing with difficult siutations," he, himself, was not immune to suspensions.
		Bill McGowan was the plate umpire, and I'll never forget it.
		Bill McGowan was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame by the Committee on Baseball Veterans on March 17, 1992.
	www.baseball-almanac.com /deaths/bill_mcgowan_obituary.shtml (808 words)

	Babson College - William G. McGowan
		McGowan admits that he had no real experience in the telecommunications industry when he bought Microwave Communications, Inc. "Fortunately, I didn't know anything about the industry," he says.
		McGowan is most often credited as the catalyst for competition in the long-distance industry.
		McGowan was responsible for leading MCI's charge to end AT&T's long-distance telephone monopoly in the courts and at the FCC.
	www3.babson.edu /ESHIP/outreach-events/William-G-McGowan.cfm (390 words)

	WalTom Racing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In late December, it was announced that Bill McGowan, formerly crew chief for Gary St.Amant (#7), would be joining the WalTom team for 2003.
		Bill works for Kent County during the week and spends his weekends at the race shop working with the team to prepare for the upcoming season.
		Bill is a welcome addition to the WalTom team as they look forward to a great 2003 season.
	www.waltomracing.com /2003_news/02032003.html (302 words)

	Bill McGowan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		William Aloysius McGowan (January 18, 1896 - December 9, 1954) was an American umpire in Major League Baseball, working in the American League from 1925 to 1954.
		During his career, he umpired in 8 World Series, tying the AL record set by Tommy Connolly and previously tied by Bill Dinneen: 1928, 1931, 1935, 1939, 1941, 1944, 1947 and 1950.
		McGowan died at age 58 in Silver Spring, Maryland.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bill_McGowan (167 words)

	Hall of famer: Bill McGowan umpired with vigor and style - baseball Baseball Digest - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Regarded as the best "balls and strikes man" of his time, McGowan or "Mac" as he was better known to the players, was the Iron Man of the men in blue umpiring almost as many consecutive games (2,541) as Cai Ripken, Jr.
		McGowan was tolerant of managers chiming in on disputes.
		McGowan was behind the plate in Philadelphia's Shibe Park on the last day of the 1941 season as the A's took on the Red Sox.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0FCI/is_2_61/ai_81761313 (935 words)

	Brownfield council to consider new, cheaper representation
		McGowan and McGowan, the city's current law firm under retainer, was paid more than $88,000 in 1996 from the city of Brownfield, according to billing statements.
		McGowan said that despite the high billing, did not feel he was charging too much.
		Bill McGowan, the firm's lead attorney, is the third-generation McGowan to represent the city since the 1940s.
	www.lubbockonline.com /news/102497/053-2167.htm (514 words)

	pylemcgowan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		McGowan travels from his home in Michigan to the Chicago area every weekend to help the team prepare for the season. McGowan spent the last several years working with Gary St. Amant, with two ASA National Championships to his credit and numerous wins.
		Pyle admits that McGowan's hardest hurdle may be the fact that McGowan has a lot of knowledge with Port City race cars and Pyle uses only Howe cars.
		McGowan knows the team can be and should be a championship contender, but has his goals set a little lower.
	www.speed51.com /pylemcgowan.html (659 words)

	thedesertsun.com \| McGowan family remembrances
		The McGowan family had deep roots in the Coachella Valley with three children in local schools and years of public service in law enforcement and firefighting.
		I attended the mcgowan funeral and have to admit I was totally stunned at the large number of Cathedral City Fire Department members in attendance, and in uniform in support of a past employee, Karen McGowan.
		McGowan would be buryed with his family, just makes me very angry to know he will be buryed with his family.
	cgi.desert-sun.com /mcgowans.shtml (16904 words)

	BillOReilly.com: The O'Reilly Factor (04/28/04) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Bill shares messages from Canadians upset with the way that the situation is being handled.
		Bill speaks to Jim Phillips, an expert on the Middle East from the Heritage Foundation.
		Bill speaks by phone with Tony Perry of the Los Angeles Times from Fallujah, and in Baghdad, Brigadier General Mark Hertling, the Assistant Division Commander for the First Armoured Division, about the ongoing conflict in Iraq.
	www.billoreilly.com /pg/jsp/general/genericpage.jsp?pageID=188 (345 words)

	asaaccess_pylemcgowan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Now, halfway into their initial season together, Pyle and McGowan are still looking for their first win together, but they haven't been slouches by any stretch of the imagination. They have a series-leading two poles, five top-five finishes and six top-10s in nine races.
		Bill McGowan (left) and Robbie Pyle (right) have formed a sort of "dream team" in ASA.
		Unlike many crew chiefs, McGowan doesn't spend the entire week at the race shop. Yet, when he does, it requires a big trip from his home in Michigan, where he works for the state full-time, to the Chicago-based CITGO shops.
	www.speed51.com /asaaccess_pylemcgowan.html (850 words)

	Canisius College - McGowan To Address Graduate Class Of 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		McGowan’s business accomplishments are complemented by her numerous charitable services.
		She is the president and director of the William G. McGowan Charitable Fund Inc., which was established by her late husband, Bill McGowan, founder of MCI Telecommunications.
		The director and vice chair of Chicagoland’s Chamber of Commerce, McGowan is also a trustee for Chicago Community Trust, a foundation that administers philanthropic funds on behalf of individuals, families and organizations.
	www.canisius.edu /newsevents/aprjuly02/042202_mcgowan.asp (487 words)

	2001 council minutes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Mayor McGowan explained that ten minutes would be given to those who wished to speak for and those who wished to speak against the proposed sign ordinance.
		Mayor McGowan ask that recognition of the Honorary Council member be moved to the end of the agenda as Ms.
		Mayor McGowan stated that this was a public hearing with final action to be taken at the November meeting.
	www.americus-online.com /2005cminutes.htm (18693 words)

	The McGowan Fund
		Then there are the innovators whose specialty is challenging man-made laws and long held assumptions.
		"Bill McGowan was first and foremost a humanitarian.
		He understood the meaning of hard work and commitment, thriving on the challenge to achieve his objectives.
	www.mcgowanfund.org /vision.html (317 words)

	McFarland - Publisher of Reference and Scholarly Books
		Hall of Fame umpire Bill McGowan controlled the field of play as much with his personality as with the rulebook; his respected 30-year career, including 2,532 consecutive games, was among the longest in baseball history.
		McGowan was the home plate umpire in the first-ever American League pennant playoff game, Cleveland versus Boston in 1948.
		Famous for his sense of humor, great dramatics, and wild gestures, he was known to turn a strike into a ball if he thought a player deserved a break, or to eject half a team if they annoyed him.
	www.mcfarlandpub.com /book-2.php?isbn=0-7864-2136-3 (227 words)

	Daily Record Sports - Sparta’s McGowan drafted into MLS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Former Seton Hall star and Sparta standout Ryan McGowan was drafted Friday by the Chicago Fire in the sixth round of the MLS SuperDraft.
		McGowan, a senior at Seton Hall University, was selected by the Chicago Fire in the sixth round, No. 52 overall.
		They drafted McGowan after Schellscheidt recommended him to Sarachan on Thursday night, as “a sleeper that maybe other teams were not real familiar with.” Wilt hoped McGowan could develop like Fire defender Jim Curtin, who was acquired in the third round in 2001.
	www.dailyrecord.com /sports/pro/sports1-mcgowan0117.htm (602 words)

	Incidental McGowan Sightings
		Fr J McGowan was a pastor at St Dennis in Lockport, IL in the last century.
		Gerald McGowan is the U.S Ambasador to Portugal
		Steve McGowan is an attorney in employment and civil right litigation in WV.
	www.mcgowans.org /mcincidental.html (175 words)

	Press - Press Release
		The William G. McGowan Theater is the second major component of the National Archives Experience and will open to the public in the spring of 2004.
		A highlight among those symposia will be the annual "William G. McGowan Communications Forum", a unique exploration of the junction of communication, technology and government that is inspired both by McGowan's lifelong work and the vital role of the National Archives in all three arenas.
		The William G. McGowan Charitable Fund was established to give financial assistance to organizations and causes that reflect the visions, concerns and lifetime experiences of its founder, William G. McGowan.
	www.archives.gov /press/press-releases/2003/nr03-62.html?template=print (1002 words)

	Gazette.Net \| Remembering a baseball great behind the plate
		McGowan, a diabetic, was propped up on pillows in his Silver Spring home.
		McGowan was posthumously elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1992.
		The pitcher got upset, Luke said, but McGowan explained that the man was a recent veteran, it was his first time at bat and he was getting on base.
	www.gazette.net /stories/082405/wheanew12607_31892.shtml (722 words)

	Bill McGowan \| BaseballLibrary.com
		In 1933 McGowan was one of that "great clan of probity," in the words of Yale professor Billy Phelps, who were given the honor of working the first All-Star Game.
		That April 26, Gehrig hit the ball into the centerfield bleachers in Washington, but the ball popped back out of the stands and into the outfielder's hands, confusing baserunner Lyn Lary, who slowed down.
		In a game in St. Louis, McGowan had thrown out Tiger P Billy Hoeft, who had been heckling him from the dugout.
	www.baseballlibrary.com /baseballlibrary/ballplayers/M/McGowan_Bill.stm (617 words)

	Bill McGowan \| National Baseball Hall of Fame
		Bill McGowan was nearly an exception to the old adage that says fans don't pay to see the umpire.
		that Bill McGowan was the home plate umpire in the first-ever American League pennant playoff game, in which Cleveland defeated Boston, 8-3, on October 4, 1948, behind player/manager Lou Boudreau?
		Tell someone about Bill McGowan by sending a free Hall of Fame Digital Postcard.
	www.baseballhalloffame.org /hofers_and_honorees/hofer_bios/McGowan_Bill.htm (195 words)

	Americus Times-Recorder, Americus, Georgia - Q&A with Democratic candidates for the Georgia House (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Cheokas said that the voter bill addressed fraud at the voting polls while there has never been an issue of voter fraud at the polls; instead, issues of voter fraud with absentee balloting, and that it would have made more sense to evaluate a bill that addressed absentee ballot fraud.
		McGowan said to his knowledge, there has never been a verified instance of voter fraud locally.
		McGowan said the problem of illegal immigration needs to be contained and the federal government must do its part to solve the problem.
	www.americustimesrecorder.com /local/local_story_162020016.html (590 words)

	Why did Sullivan speak for McGowan? Simple. They’re from the same tribe
		As we saw yesterday, McGowan’s first case study involves the Washington Post’s coverage of the Garvey School assault incident (see THE DAILY HOWLER, 7/30/02).
		And McGowan’s treatment of that event is quite hard to square with the facts.
		MCGOWAN (page 39): The most disturbing aspect of the Post’s coverage, though, was the response of the paper’s prominent fl columnists.
	www.dailyhowler.com /dh073102.shtml (1147 words)

	Unlimited - Who’s Bill McGowan? Defensive stocks & Bush is back
		Fastway Couriers founder Bill McGowan is dubbed New Zealand’s most successful international franchisor, yet he’s far from a household name here.
		To interview Fastway founder Bill McGowan, in New Zealand briefly from Europe to attend an annual board meeting, I replied.
		McGowan remembers the driver even though he hasn’t seen him for a few years.
	unlimited.co.nz /unlimited.nsf/default/D1655D958FB8349CCC256F420010FD9D (1081 words)

	Americus Times-Recorder, Americus, Georgia - Bill McGowan qualifies for House seat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		McGowan has been elected four times, twice serving as mayor and twice serving on the Americus City Council.
		McGowan stated, “It would be an honor to serve as your state representative.
		McGowan is a member of First Baptist Church of Americus and the Americus Kiwanis Club.
	www.americustimesrecorder.com /local/local_story_114232119.html (393 words)

	RIT - News & Events: $2 million to launch telecom center
		“The board of directors of the McGowan Charitable Fund is pleased to be able to join with RIT in the creation of this unique and needed telecommunications center named after our founder, Bill McGowan,” says Monsignor Andrew McGowan, chairman of the fund and brother of the late William McGowan.
		William McGowan, a pioneer in the telecommunications field, founded MCI Communications Corp. in 1968 and led the company until his death in 1992.
		The grant is the largest to RIT from the Washington, D.C.-based William G. McGowan Charitable Fund Inc. and among the fund’s largest to any institution.
	www.rit.edu /~930www/NewsEvents/2004/May01/mcgowan.html (578 words)

	Capitol College: Capitol College adds major new structure
		Over the years, McGowan, who died in 1992, supported the school with money, equipment and his belief in the college's mission.
		The William G. McGowan Academic Center is "a signature building for the campus," said architect Phillip Renfrow of Geier, Brown and Renfrow Architects, the firm that designed it.
		They also praised the contributions of Bill McGowan to the school, including $3 million from his charitable fund for the McGowan Building.
	www.capitol-college.edu /newsevents/articles/ll050505.shtml (703 words)

	Archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Bill McGowan, assistant director of hospital and clinics and controller at UC Davis Medical Center, has been appointed acting chief financial officer for UC Davis Health System.
		“Bill McGowan has extensive experience and expertise in all aspects of financial management — both at UC Davis Health System and at other health-care institutions in the state.
		We are grateful that he’s willing to step up and take on a leadership role in guiding the health system during these very challenging times,” said Martha H. Marsh, chief operating officer at the health system.
	www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu /update/archives/Oct_13_00/Mcgowan.html (145 words)

	Primedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		With the second team it will bring more great people into the mix and is a great opportunity for a rookie driver with the knowledge that Bill (McGowan) and Howie have acquired in their motorsports careers.
		Bill McGowan returns for a second consecutive season with WalTom Racing as Robbie Pyle's crew chief.
		McGowan previously guided Gary St. Amant to National Championships in 1998 and 2000 with Michigan-based Automotive Promotions Inc.
	www.whowon.com /Primedia/pm_topstory.asp?StoryID=106955 (815 words)

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