Mr. MacDougal became Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Mark Controls Corporation in September 1969 when he and a group of venture capital investors assumed control of the company. Mark Controls has been a leading manufacturer and installer of building management systems and services, and a manufacturer of flow control equipment for the petroleum, process and power industries.
During Mr. MacDougal's tenure as CEO, the investors achieved more than a sixteen–fold increase, with the stock rising from $10 per share in 1969 to the equivalent of more than $160 per share in October 1987 (adjusted for splits). Investors experienced growth of over 17% per year compounded (including dividends) over the eighteen-year period. Prior to Mr. MacDougal's joining the company, Mark Controls lost money in six of the ten preceding years (1960-1969), but then grew to be ranked #687 in the "Fortune 1000" and was listed on the New York Stock Exchange. In October 1987, Mr. MacDougal turned over CEO responsibilities to a long-time partner and became Honorary Chairman of the Board of Mark Controls.
From 1993 to 19967, Mr. MacDougal chaired the Illinois Governor's Task Force on Human Services Reform, which developed and implemented a major reform and reorganization of the $10 billion human services systems. This largest reorganization of Illinois State government since 1900 moved human services and welfare toward integration of services, involvement of communities and measured outcomes. Illinois now leads the other big-city states in moving people into self-sufficiency, with the number of recipients reduced 75% statewide and the difficult Cook County/Chicago rolls down 70% since August 1996. He is the author of Make A Difference (St. Martin's Press-2000), a book describing the Illinois reform and making the case for Illinois as a model for the nation. Mr. MacDougal has spoken about lessons learned and challenges ahead in welfare reform at numerous major policy organizations including the Brookings Institute, the Hudson Institute, the Heritage Foundation and the Manhattan Institute. Mr. MacDougal's work in welfare reform has been the subject of syndicated columns by David Broder of the Washington Post and Clarence Page of the Chicago Tribune.
Mr. MacDougal served in Washington as Senior Advisor and Assistant Campaign Manager in the 1988 Bush Presidential Campaign, with responsibility in the areas of policy, management and finance. In January 1989, at the suggestion of a former Illinois governor, he spent six months as an exploratory candidate for the U.S. Senate from Illinois, withdrawing from the race in August at the request of President Bush.
In September 1989, President Bush appointed Mr. MacDougal a Public Delegate and Alternate Representative of the United States to the United Nations General Assembly in New York. He was confirmed by the U.S. Senate in December 1989, and his U.N. responsibilities included Eastern Europe, the environment, and U.S. strategy and organization at the U.N.
In November 1991, Mr. MacDougal was selected by President Bush to be Chairman of the $55 million Bulgarian American Enterprise Fund, established to invest in and encourage entrepreneurship and free markets in Bulgaria. He currently serves as a director and Chairman Emeritus of that fund. In March 1992, President Bush appointed Mr. MacDougal to the United States Commission on the Effectiveness of the United Nations, established to evaluate the U.S. position and recommend an appropriate U.S. strategy for participation in the United Nations.
Mr. MacDougal is a former Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Russell Sage Foundation (New York), an organization with assets of approximately $200 million which conducts and funds social science research with a major emphasis on poverty problems. Mr. MacDougal is currently a trustee of the Casey Foundation (Baltimore), a foundation with assets of approximately $3 billion established to assist children at risk, and is a former Trustee of the W.T. Grant Foundation (New York), with assets of approximately $170 million directed to child development and problems of disadvantaged children.
Prior to joining Mark Controls, Mr. MacDougal was a partner of McKinsey & Company, an international management consulting firm, working primarily in Los Angeles and New York. He was with McKinsey for over six years, during which time he directed teams of consultants in the operations management, strategy, and acquisition areas for client companies. Together with another partner, he was responsible for McKinsey's finance and merger/acquisition practice firmwide. He wrote Investing in a Dividend Boost published in the Harvard Business Review, and co-authored Master Plan for Merger Negotiations, also published in the Harvard Business Review and reprinted in several books. He has also contributed OP-ED's published in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times and the Chicago Tribune on welfare reform and other subjects.
Mr. MacDougal serves on the board of United Parcel Service of America (Atlanta, GA), a company with $31 billion in sales and more than 370,000 employees, where he has been Chairman of the Finance Committee and is a member of the nominating committee. He also serves on the advisory boards of Saratoga Partners III, L.P., a $125 million venture capital fund and Saratoga Partners IV, L.P., a $250 million fund. He is also a former director of the following New York Stock Exchange listed corporations: Union Camp (forest products), AM International (printing equipment), CBI Industries (industrial construction and commercial gases), Sargent Welch Scientific Company (scientific equipment), Maremont Corporation (automotive equipment) and The France Fund (mutual fund).
Mr. MacDougal is a former trustee of the UCLA Foundation (University of California at Los Angeles) and was named "Alumnus of the Year" by the UCLA School of Engineering and Applied Science. He was appointed a Commissioner of the U.S. Secretary of Labor's Commission on Workforce Quality and Productivity, serving in 1988 and 1989, and served as General Director of the New York City Ballet in 1993 and 1994. He also received the outstanding leadership award from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). Mr. MacDougal is a member and former director of the Economic Club of Chicago, and a member of the Chicago Club, the Harvard Club of New York and the Council on Foreign Relations in New York.
Mr. MacDougal received his Master's Degree in Business with distinction in June 1963 from Harvard University. In June 1958, he received his Bachelor of Science degree in engineering from UCLA, and subsequently served in the Navy as a destroyer Chief Engineer, leaving the Navy with the rank of Lieutenant (j.g.).
Mr. MacDougal was born in Chicago 66 years ago and brought up in Westfield, NJ and Los Angeles, CA. He is married to Charlene Gehm and has two sons, Gary, Jr., age 37 and Michael Scott, age 34.

We have already seen the reports in the papers that the State income tax will be raised if the Democrats win (News Sun- "State Senator Link- State tax hike inevitable"). We have also seen that Rod Blagojevich will overturn the education reforms that Mayor Daley has bragged about ("Blagojevich way out in front" Sun Times 2-2-02) Is it because of the $345,000 from the Illinois Federation of Teachers and $554,461 from the Service Employees International Union and its locals--all supporters of rewriting state legislation to allow Chicago public school teachers to potentially strike, over non economic issues, such as class size. Blagojevich came out firmly in support of such a change, saying "it makes perfect sense to be able to do that".

We know that Rod Blagojevich would raise the price of a FOID card to $500.00 if it were up to him. We know that Mayor Daley would stop all suburbs from selling firearms and sue gun manufacturers. We know that Rod Blagojevich believes Homosexual have the right to marry, he calls it Human rights. We also know that he believes that governments should cover domestic partners with insurance coverage of workers.

The people of Illinois are not liberal. They do not favor domestic partners or Homosexual marriage. The Democratic ticket does. The people of Illinois do not believe that we should disarm law abiding citizens. The Democratic ticket does. The people of Illinois do not want the Teachers unions to force our children to go to schools that do not teach. The Democratic ticket does. The people of Illinois do not believe that when you die the government should take half of everything you have saved. The Democratic ticket does. Scared yet? What can you do to stop it?

Start letter writing campaigns. We need to get our voices on talk radio. We need to talk to our neighbors and we need to volunteer for the campaigns that need us the most. If ever there was a time for unity and hard work, now is that time. If you don't know what campaign to work for, contact a grassroots group in your area, help them on a phone bank, carry literature or work a precinct. We as a party have done our part to clean up government. We changed leadership because it was the right thing to do; not the easiest thing but the right thing. Now lets focus that same passion we showed changing our leadership to changing Illinois government for the better. There is only one party that offers a change from the business as usual politics we have seen for the last 30 years and it is the Republican party. Believe it or not

A Chicago area nurse won a national victory in her battle against live-birth abortion last week when the U.S. Senate, without dissent or debate, passed the Born Alive Infants Protection Act and sent the measure on to President Bush for his signature. Jill Stanek, a nurse from suburban Mokena, brought the issue to Congress two years ago with the stunningly disturbing news that babies surviving abortions at Christ Hospital in Oak Lawn were left to die without medical care. Stanek lost her job as labor/delivery nurse at the hospital because of her protests. Stanek had herself held one of the surviving infants--a 21-gestational-week boy--for about 45 minutes while he struggled for breath and died.

The bill passed on the unanimous consent calendar through the leadership of Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) but with the concurrence of Sen. Tom Daschle (D-S.D.), the Senate majority leader. Modest though the bill is, the measure is historic because, according to Dr. Hadley Arkes, the Amhurst college professor who wrote the text of the bill for the House Judiciary's Constitution subcommittee, ''it would confirm that Congress can lay hands on this subject [abortion], that Congress may legislate to establish the limits to the right of abortion and even bar certain kinds of abortion.''

Stanek has been out of work as a nurse through her intense battle to persuade Advocate Health Care to stop inducing premature births as a method of abortion. The measure defines as legal persons infants born alive during abortions regardless of the condition of the babies or circumstances of their birth. Stanek ran for a state House seat in March but lost. This victory, which has national significance, more than makes up for her defeat.

An auxiliary victory of sorts was scored with the Associated Press coverage of the live birth abortion issue when the measure passed the House. The news service reported that the measure affected a live ''fetus.'' Live fetus? That's a baby, isn't it? By that yardstick, are we not all grown-up fetuses? What's wrong with the use of the word ''baby'' or ''infant''?

Well, baby and infant are words that evidently make the issue too graphic. But after protests, this time the AP shifted its ground somewhat, but is still reluctant to use the word baby or infant. ''The Senate sent to the White House . . . a bill that ensures that a live birth--even if it occurs during abortion--has certain rights under federal law,'' the AP said. Live birth of what? A baby, obviously.

The second pro-life victory was scored by the Bush administration. It cuts off $34 million earmarked for UN ''family planning'' programs overseas. In doing so, Bush has rebuffed Secretary of State Colin Powell. An independent study, led by the prestigious Population Research Institute, scored China's forced abortion policy, which would have benefitted from the funding. The private group contradicted a report by a State Department panel that whitewashed China's depopulation actions. Some lawmakers intend to fight the Bush decision. If so, they should take into account a Cybercast News Service (CNSNews.com) story by Patrick Goodenough.

It says that Chinese women married to Taiwanese men ''are being ordered to have abortions or sterilization surgery during visits to the mainland to comply with China's controversial 'one child' policy. At least six of these women report that [Beijing's] family planning officials forced them to undergo pregnancy tests in recent months. About 100,000 Taiwanese are believed to be married to spouses from the mainland.

Social conservatives chafing at not winning all their battles with the Bush administration should consider the population fund cut-off and the live-birth abortion measure that the president will sign as vital. Now their job is to push Congress to pass the partial-birth abortion ban. It passed the House Judiciary Committee last week by a vote of 20-8. The goal is for speedy House passage (it has passed the measure before) and on to the Senate before its August recess.

When pro-lifers grumble at Bush, they should recall that Bill Clinton vetoed a partial-birth abortion ban twice--in 1996 and 1997.

This time, President Bush would enthusiastically sign it.

==>– Thomas Jefferson