Founders and Key Individuals
Fred H. Williams
B.A. 1968 M.A. G & C - 1974 EMU Owner and founder of CAST-A-NOTE 1985.
MCWA LLC was started in 2005 as a creative financing effort to keep CAST-A-NOTE funded.
Mr. Williams has worked in various capacities with children over a 44 year period:
Non-Teaching experience
- Camp counselor, Mott Foundation, Lapeer, MI 1959-1963
- Mentored 8 incorrigibles 1964- (2 of whom I still see today as adults)
- A Washtenaw County , Juvenile home detention supervisor 1969-74
Teacher Wayne Westland 1968-2001
- Elementary Teacher
- School Community Agent
- Student assistance teacher
- Junior high teacher
- Middle school counselor
- Peer Mediation trainer WRESA
- Project G.R.E.A.T. (Gang Resistance Education And Training) Counselor WRESA
Administrative Roles
- Assistant principal National Heritage Academies 2001-2003
- Acting Principal Child's Elementary School Lincoln Consolidated Schools Feb 2005
The Author appreciates the unfailing support:
of My Family, wife Connie, children Brian, Vincent, Terri my two brothers Carl Williams Denver CO and Dr. Calvin Williams-Charlotte, NC. Earl Sanders, brother-in-law Mishawaka IN, My Parents the late Edward & Minnie Williams, My Pastors Fred & Helen Canty and my Way of Life Christian Church Family.Business and Education leaders
Dr. Bill Pickard, John M. Hardin, Paul Tucker, Dennis Archer, U of M Prof. Dr.Percy Bates, EMU Board member, Gary HawksStatesmen
the late Congressman William D. Ford, letters of encouragement from former presidents Bill Clinton and George H. BushLetters from Leaders of NEA, MEA
