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| .......................................... Calender of EventsFebruary 25—Business and Community Leader’s Breakfast and Luncheon March 25—Business and Community Leader’s Breakfast and Luncheon April 22—Business and Community Leader’s Breakfast and Luncheon May 27—Business and Community Leader’s Breakfast and Luncheon June 24—Business and Community Leader’s Breakfast and Luncheon July 22—Business and Community Leader’s Breakfast and Luncheon September—Zoorific Day of Character .......................................... |
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Business CommitteeThe business community plays a vital role in the success of a community through their influence over commerce and trade. However, businesses operating without a foundation of good character can erode the very economy they are seeking to strengthen.The Business Committee of the Character Council operates to help area business realize the vital importance of good character to the long-term success of business, and to provide businesses the tools and resources necessary to achieve good character that equips them to operate successfully. The chairperson of the Business Committee is Mr. Jack P. Gilchrist. Mr. Gilchrist is a founding director and shareholder of DeBee Gilchrist, a Professional Corporation. He heads the Firm's Aviation practice as special counsel with respect to transactions involving aircraft, engines, propellers and spare parts. He was named the 2003 Businessman of the Year by the National Republican Congressional Committee's Business Advisory Council for integrating successful business practices with the unfailing support of good government ideals.
Mr. Gilchrist is a member of the Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, Federal, American and International Bar Associations. He is a member of the Business Law Section, the Aircraft Financing Subcommittee and the Forum on Air and Space Law of the American Bar Association. He is a member of the Association of Aircraft Title Lawyers and the American Transportation Lawyers Association.He also serves on the Legal Advisory Panel to the Aircraft Working Group under Unidroit. In addition, Mr. Gilchrist also serves as legal counsel to community based non-profit organizations and Oklahoma schools. Jack P. Gilchrist graduated from the University of Oklahoma (B.A., J.D.); and Dallas Theological Seminary (M.A.). |
Mr. Gilchrist served
as co-chair of the Federal Bar Association Aircraft Title, Registration, Finance and Leasing
Law conference (2001), and speaks before the ABA Business Law Section, Aircraft Finance
Subcommittee, among others