Background
WICK, Charles was born on October 12, 1917 in Cleveland, Ohio, United States.
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Charles Z. Z. WICK
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Bachelor in Music, University Michigan, 1940. Juris Doctor, Western Reserve Law School, 1943.
Career
As United States Information Agency director, Wick launched the first live global satellite television network. Wick also established the Voice of America"s Radio Marti broadcasting to Cuba. Created Rundfunk im amerikanischen Sektor television in Berlin.
Headed the International Youth Exchange Initiative.
Established an office within United States Information Agency to implement the General Exchanges Agreement between the United States. and the former Soviet Union. And created the Artistic Ambassador Program with its international young artists" exchanges.
Wick was an independent businessman involved in the financing and operation of motion picture, television, radio, music, health care, and mortgage industries in the United States and abroad. He was president and chief executive officer of Wick Financial Corporation, and Mapleton Enterprises, which he founded in the early 1960s.
He was co-chairman of the 1981 Presidential Inaugural Committee.
Wick graduated from the University of Michigan (Bachelor of Medicine) and Case Western Reserve University School of Law (Juris Doctor). Wick was on the Advisory Board of University of Southern California Center on Public Diplomacy. Prior to his entering into governmental affairs, he produced such films as Snow White and the Three Stooges.
Achievements
Membership
Co-chairman Presidential Inaugural Committee, 1981. Trustee Kennedy Center Performing Arts, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Member President' Committee on Arts and Humanities, President' Council for International Youth Exchange.
President' personal representative Presidential Commission for German-American Tricentennial. Member Citizens' Choice National Commission on Free and Responsible Media. Member California Bar Association, Ohio Bar Association Clubs: Metropolitan (Washington), Capitol Hill (Washington).
Connections
Married Mary Jane Woods, 1945. Children: Canal Zone, Douglas, Pamela, Cynthia, Kimberly.
