User:GATOGARRY

GATOGARRY is a contemporary American Artist who has studied Art and the Humanities  in both Canada and the United States. He is the seventh son of an Irish-Canadian Catholic  father and a German-Dutch Jewish mother. He attended Saint Robert Bellarmine Catholic School for religious studies and Ashcroft Elementary Public School. He attended John D. Pierce middle school and Lee M. Thurston High School in South Redford, Michigan. While growing up he was introduced to ice hockey by his father, Joseph who was born in Ottawa, Canada. Gatogarry also known as Garry O'Leary, started his college life as a hockey player student athlete at Hillsdale College. Under the direction of Jack Gumbleton and Ted Lindsay, Garry played hockey and continued his studies in liberal arts and sciences. After two years, he transfered to The University of Michigan-Dearborn. Here he continued to play hockey and become schooled in the business of Insurance working full time in his father's State Farm Insurance Agency office. Eventually he stopped playing hockey and began working full time in the Agency and began painting at night. During his education at the University of Michigan he undertook internship programs through the International Studies Program, and worked in provincial parliament in Toronto, Ontario, and later moving to Washington D. C. working on Capitol Hill covering the Senate Committee hearings on Environment and Public Works, chaired by  Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, D,- N.Y. and  doing co-op work with the Canadien Embassy, on Massachusetts Avenue, during the Pierre Trudeau administration.