User:RolandJReganJr/sandbox

Early life
1952-1970

Regan was born in Lynn, Massachusetts to Roland James Regan, Sr., a fire fighter Lieutenant with the City of Lynn Fire Department for 35 years, and Mary Teresa (née Hunt), a nurse for 25 years who had emigrated from Ireland in 1947. When he was young Regan studied the accordion and guitar, played Little League baseball for the Wyoma Cardinals (Lynn), and was both a cub and boy scout with Troop 22 attaining Life Scout. His working class-roots were instilled at an early age when as a twelve-year old, his parents purchased a daily paper route of 75 papers in which he grew to 147 papers. In four years, Regan accumulated approximately $9,000 in his savings bank account for college. He also spent summer weekends cutting lawns and winters shoveling driveways to earn extra money for college. This early developmental work ethic process and upbringing would firmly instill the term bootstrap to Regan’s psyche.

Regan attended St. Pius V Grammar School and St. Mary’s High School both in Lynn. He later transferred to St. Peter’s Preparatory School, an all-boys college preparatory school in Gloucester, MA. Despite working through high school, he played both high school baseball and ice hockey. Nicknamed “Gov” and “Redford” by friends in high school and college due to Ronald Reagan being Governor of CA between 1966-1974 and Robert Redford’s popularity as an actor between 1969-1977. Regan would become only the second member of his extended family on both sides (1st-3rd cousins) to attend college and first member to attend graduate school.

Education-undergraduate and graduate
1971-1991

Regan received an A.B. degree with honors in economics and general management from Boston College (BC) in Chesnut Hill, MA in 1977 (he had transferred to Boston College from Merrimack College). While at BC he wrote sports and opinion pieces for the college newspaper “The Heights”, pledged to and was Vice President-Marketing of a fraternity “Pi Sigma Epsilon”, and for a semester had a radio show called “Rock-In with Rollie” on the college radio station “WZBC-FM”.

In June 1978, Regan received an MBA degree concentrating in marketing and finance with honors from Suffolk University in Boston, MA during which time he received a Teaching Fellowship. In January 1979, Regan graduated with distinction from the U.S. Air Force Officers Training School in San Antonio, TX. In June 1991, Regan received a master's degree in administration and policy development from Harvard University in Cambridge, MA during which time he received a Research Fellowship.

While serving in the Air Force between 1979-1983, Regan completed a Juris Doctorate degree focusing on corporate law in June 1983

While pursuing his undergraduate and graduate degrees Regan worked at Stop & Shop as a cashier and interned as a Legislative Aide at the Massachusetts State House in Boston, MA. He worked with several House committees and legislators on the research, development, and progression of legislation through its 2nd and 3rd committee readings before entering U.S.A.F. Officers Training School (OTS) in October 1978. During his approximate four-year tenure at the Massachusetts State House, he worked for a State Senator and two State Representatives.

Military service
1978-1983

During college Regan applied too and was accepted into the Naval Aviation Reserve Officer Candidate program known as NAVROC in Pensacola, FL. He completed an intense 14-week program between his junior and senior years of college that included swimming a mile in a flight suit, two parachute jumps, water and land crash survival, daily early morning six mile runs, and classes in navigation (celestial and electronic), jet aircraft propulsion systems, Naval history, and fighter jet tactics. Regan intended to be commissioned as an Ensign and attend the Naval Aviation School in Corpus Christi, TX to earn his fixed wing or fighter aviation wings but augmented to the U.S. Air Force for personal reasons in 1977.

Regan after graduating from Boston College, while attending graduate school, he augmented to the U.S. Air Force. He attended U.S.A.F. Officer’s Training School (OTS) in San Antonio, TX, after graduating with his MBA in 1978, and graduated from OTS with distinction. Regan was assigned to the Electronics Systems Division (ESD) out of Wright Patterson, AFB, but located at Hanscom, AFB in Bedford-Lexington, MA. During his military service period Regan started and completed his law degree at Suffolk University Law School in Boston, MA.

Regan attained the rank of Captain (temporary) before resigning his commission in June 1983 and received three decorations during his military tenure: a NATO Meritorious Service medal, a National Defense Service medal, and a Marksman’s ribbon

Professional career
1983-2021

Regan was honorably discharged in June 1983 after serving nearly four and half years as an officer in the U.S. Air Force initially assigned to the Spanish Combat Grande program and then reassigned to the NATO AWACS program located at Hanscom, AFB. Upon his discharge from the military Regan was an Assistant District Attorney (ADA) with the Essex County D.A.’s offices at District Courts in Lynn and Peabody. He conducted both six-man jury and bench trails, and weekly juvenile court proceedings. In June 1984, Regan accepted a position with Hercules Aerospace/Simmonds Precision in Vergennes, VT as a Contracts and Licensing Consultant.

In May 1987, Regan accepted a position as a Senior Associate with Harbridge House, Inc. an international management consulting and executive training firm in Boston, MA. During this period Regan focused and developed an expertise in the areas of executive and professional management development and training; corporate policy development; strategic planning; brand marketing; cause marketing, customer service, contracts and licensing, and program management. Clients included many Fortune 500 companies including GE, United Technologies, Corning, BMW, Ford, Disney, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Bard, and Draper Labs.

In 1992, Regan accepted a position with Promonde, Inc. (merged with N.A.G.W., Inc.) in Boston, MA where he continued performing similar professional work as at Harbridge House, but with an international clientele that included several European municipality sport venues and healthcare care facilities. While at Promonde, Regan also represented several professional NHL/AHL ice hockey (Ricky Pion/St. Louis Blues and Dan Murphy/Boston Bruins) and NFL football players (Greg Bloedorn/Seahawks; Adam Salina/Packers & Cowboys; Josh Henrich/Lions & Patriots) and a rock band named the “Turbulent Daughters” between 1993-1995. The band recorded one album in 1994 entitled “Fabulous Disaster” before disbanding.

Regan resigned from ProMonde in 2002, and between 2003-2021 Regan served on the Board of Trustees and as CEO and President of the National Childhood Obesity Foundation, Inc. or ® in Marblehead, MA. ® was a children’s healthcare advocacy organization, educating both parents and caretakers of children on the long-term health benefits of establishing, at the earliest ages healthy eating and physical activity habits. N.C.O.F.® children’s health events called ®Playdates were conducted between 2007-2017 primarily in CA.

Adjunct professorships and travel
1983-2019

Regan has taught and co-taught a variety of undergraduate and graduate level courses including business law, marketing, sport marketing, organizational behavior, entrepreneurship, and the business of sport as an adjunct faculty member at Harvard-Extension, Western New England College, University of Vermont, Boston University, Bentley University, Northeastern University, Endicott College, and Salem State University. A short video of Regan teaching Corporate Innovation class at Harvard-Extension.

Regan has also traveled extensively both professionally and personally throughout the Republic of Ireland, Great Britain, Germany, The Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, France, Spain, Italy, Switzerland, Austria, Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary, Canada, Mexico, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, Grand Camen, and 45 of 50 states in the U.S.A.

Published books and articles
1997-2001

Regan has written and published articles on international marketing and global sports marketing for the Sextant Magazine (Salem State University magazine). He authored a book entitled "Sport Marketing" published by Prentice Hall Professional Technical Reference (ISBN# 9780205195848), and an article for the Sextant Magazine  entitled "The Globalization of Sports Marketing".

Later Regan co-wrote and co-published a book entitled "From Boston to Berlin: A Journey Through World War II in Images and Words" (ISBN# 9781557532268) at www.bostontoberlin.org and an article entitled "Connecting Generations Through the Memory of the Second World War" regarding two immigrant sons World War II experiences for Purdue University Press, and the Sextant Magazine respectively. These documents along with over 150 additional photographs from WWII and multiple American and German military artifacts were donated as the "Roland J. Regan, Sr. Collection" to Boston College in 2000 and are archived at the Burns Library on the Boston College campus.

Occasional acting-radio co-host-publishing
1986-2001

Over a two-year period Regan was featured in several regional TV commercials for various company brands, and worked as an extra in several episodes of the private detective TV series "Spenser for Hire" filmed in Boston, MA and aired between 1985-1988.

Regan later co-hosted a radio show called "Sports Break" for WBPS-890 AM in Charlestown, MA and personally interviewed many sport and non-sport celebrities including David Downs Vice President of NBC Sports Programming; David Segerman Senior Editor of College Sports Magazine; Kevin O'Malley, President of TBS Sports; John Junker, Executive Director of the Fiesta Bowl; Dick Regan, Chief Operations Officer of the World League of American Football (WLAF); Bobby Grier, Director of Player Personnel for the New England Patriots; Tom Mariano, Chief College Scout for the New Orleans Saints; Paul Kariya of the NHL Anaheim Ducks; Mike Krzyzewski, Duke University men’s basketball Head Coach; and Davey Jones of “The Monkees”.