Freetown, Massachusetts
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Frank Wing also has a long political and civic record starting back to 1963
when he was elected to the
Town of
Freetown
Board of Selectmen at the age of 22.
Frank set a
state record in that election to become the youngest elected selectmen in Massachusetts history. This record still stands today.
Frank has also served on the
Board of Bristol Community College (BCC) from the college's beginning for
the first fourteen years of the college. This is the longest anyone has
ever served on that board. In addition, he was the board's chairman for
two of those fourteen years. He was first appointed to the board by former
Governor John A. Volpe and then re-appointed by former Governor Francis
Sergeant.
Frank also served as the New England Coordinator for the
National Association of Urban Republican County Chairmen and as
President of the Bristol County GOP for 2 years. These next
two picture were taken from one of the many
dinner meetings Frank held while he was President of the
Bristol County GOP. Frank has also served for two
conventions as an Alternate Delegate from to the Republican
National Convention and was elected to serve as a delegate to a third
convention.
Although
Frank is active with the Republican Party he has been a long time critic of the poorly organized
Massachusetts State Republican Committee. In the 80's
while Frank
was Chairman of the Bristol County Republican Committee he
unsuccessfully ran for the position of
Chairman of the Massachusetts State Committee against Raymond
Shamie.
Frank campaigned on the fact that the Massachusetts Republican State Committee
wasn't able to win many local elections in the state because the State
Committee retains complete control of the State GOP and didn't
allow the county,
or city and town GOP Committees to have any power or control to
operate successfully. Frank lost that election and unfortunately, the Massachusetts Republican
State Committee still hasn't corrected these basic organizational
problems they continue to have. As a result, most Massachusetts cities and towns find that on
election day most of the state and county positions have no Republican
Candidates name even on the ballot. In the 2002 election the
Massachusetts Republican State Committee couldn't even produce a candidate
to put a name on the ballot to run for US Senator and it looks like
future Massachusetts Elections will be the same. In spite of these facts, there still doesn't
seem to be any effort to make any changes to the Massachusetts Republican
State Committee in the near future.
While Frank was Chairman of the Bristol County Republican Committee
he held many events. The next two pictures were taken at the Bristol
County Republican Committee annual "Lincoln Day Dinner" held in
Seekonk, Massachusetts on February 14, 1986.
The picture on
the left from this dinner shows Frank, Andrew Card, Andrew Natisos, and
Frank's wife,
Carol Hryciw-Wing.
The picture on
the right from this dinner show former Rhode Island Governor, Edward DiPrete, Frank, Andy Card
and
Carol Hryciw-Wing.
Andrew Card is now President Bush's
Chief of Staff. This famous picture of him telling President Bush about the
9/11 Attack on the United States.
Frank is also a member
of the Wing Family. He has attended various functions held by the Wing Family
of America including the 100th anniversary of the Wing Family of
America Meeting this past June in Sandwich, Massachusetts.
