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Chuck Beattie

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH Of DR. CHARLES MALETTE BEATTIE, II, 33

Background CHARLES MALETTE BEATTIE, II was born on February 1, 1951 in Wilmington, North Carolina. His father and mother lived in Burgaw, North Carolina in nearby Pender County. He is the oldest of four children born to William Goler Beattie Sr. and Rosalie McKay. The others siblings are Gerald Vincent Beattie (deceased), Geneva Christina Beattie Johnson(deceased) and William Goler Beattie, Jr. of Rocky Mount, North Carolina.

His father was William Goler Beattie Sr. a native of Lumberton, North Carolina. He was a barber by profession and worked as a civil service employee at Camp Lejeune until his retirement from federal service in 1962. He was affiliated with the Masonic order for over 30 years. His initial affiliation was with a lodge in Lumberton, North Carolina. He departed this life in 1972.

His mother is the former Rosalie McKay of Laurinburg, North Carolina. She is a professional educator with over 43 years of service having been a classroom teacher for over 25 years and has been a guidance counselor from 1973 until her retirement in 1986. She currently resides in Rocky Mount, North Carolina. She is also a member of the Order of Eastern Star. Beattie attended the public schools of Pender County in Burgaw, Wake County in Raleigh, Edgecombe County in Rocky Mount and Nash County in Rocky Mount where he graduated from Rocky Mount Senior High School in 1969.

He has attended church and Sunday school from a very early age until the present time. Beattie was baptized at age of 12 at Mount Pisgah United Presbyterian Church Rocky Mount, North Carolina.

He has two sons -- Gerald Vincent Beattie, II (named after his deceased brother) aged 28, a restaurant manager for TGI Friday’s in Murrells Inlet, South Carolina and Antonnio Maurice Wilson age 33, a detective on the Suffolk, Virginia police force. He has one grandson, Xaviar Maurice Wilson, and a niece, Christina Monique Beattie.

Dr. Beattie holds a Ph.D. in Statistics and Research having received the doctorate in Educational Research and Testing -- Institutional Research from the Florida State University in 1984 where he specialized in research methods and design, statistics, measurement and computer-based research. He holds a master's degree in Educational Research and Development from The Ohio State University (1974) where he focused on statistics, research methods, evaluation and quantitative methods (psychology). He also has a bachelor's degree in Psychology from North Carolina Central University (1972) with a minor in Sociology.

Dr. Beattie served as a Senior Programmer, Burroughs Wellcome Company and Director of the Institute on Desegregation, an inter-institutional research program of the University of North Carolina where he coordinated and conducted studies of the desegregation process and other related issues. During the course of his graduate studies Dr. Beattie worked as research coordinator, Office for Equal Opportunity Programs, Board of Regents, Tallahassee, Florida. He also served as Director of Administrative and Management Systems in the Governor's Office, Tallahassee, Florida, director of Institutional Research/Management Information Systems and Title IX Compliance Officer for Livingstone College -- Salisbury, North Carolina; and Correctional Programs Evaluator for the North Carolina Department of Corrections, Raleigh, North Carolina.

Dr. Beattie has a background which includes over 25 years experience with systems analysis, development and programming in research, data analysis, testing, and measurement areas including: Statistics, Measurement, Survey and Data Analysis.

Dr. Beattie is now a consulting programmer and software developer who owns and operates DATABASES BY DESIGN, an Asheville-based custom programming and database design consulting group. He is also former managing director of Objective Solutions, a Raleigh-based consulting firm that provided a variety of service areas including computer systems development, management, education and research services.

His interests and hobbies include fishing, listening to blues, jazz and gospel music. He is a jazz guitarist and has performed with the North Carolina Jazz Ensemble since 1987. He is also and accomplished Blues vocalist/guitarist fronting his own band THE CHUCK BEATTIE BAND an Asheville-based blues band that is very popular in western North Carolina. He has been a fully licensed, instrument rated airplane pilot since 1973.

Dr. Beattie is currently a registered voter in Buncombe County and has been an active voter since registration at age 20.

He actively seeks to engage and assist those he meets to achieve their dreams as he is trying to do every day.