Jim Van Tassel

Watertown High School

Class of 1963

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Jim Van Tassel - Class of 1963 - Watertown High School

First Name	Jim
Last Name	Van Tassel
Graduation Year	Class of 1963
Gender	Male
City	N/A
State/Province	CA
Country	United States
Occupation	Professor
Married	Yes
About Me	Diploma, Watertown High School (this surprised a few people) Associate in Arts. Philosophy, El Camino Junior College, Torrance, CA Bachelor of Arts, Sociology, California State University, Los Angeles Master of Divinity, Non-Profit Organization Administration, The Church Divinity School of the Pacific, (Episcopal Church Seminary), Berkeley, CA Large Mainframe Computer Operations and Programming, Stanford University Medical School (while going to college in Berkeley) Executive, American Society of Internal Medicine (grant-giving) Foundation in computers and medicine, San Francisco, CA Master of Business Administration, Pepperdine University, San Francisco Real Estate Sales and Broker, Developer, Investor Certified Commercial Investment Member, National Association of Realtors, Chicago Instructor, College of Marin, Sonoma State University, San Francisco State University, Dominican University, City College San Francisco, Berkeley College Registered Investment Adviser, Stock Broker, Series 7 License, National Association of Securities Dealers, New York Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Golden Gate University, San Francisco Professor, Mission College, Santa Clara (Silicon Valley), CA (27+ years) Department Chair several terms, Division Chair Accreditation Faculty Chair, 2 terms, Western Association of Schools and Colleges Academic Senate, Vice President ACE (Faculty) Union, Secretary, 2 terms Many days of research at: New York State History Society, New York City, on Central Park West; New York Public Library on 5th Avenue Rare Manuscripts Room library card, Library of Congress, Washington. D.C., Rare Manuscripts certification, Amsterdam State Archives, Texel State Archives; Den Hague National Archives, Den Hague, Holland; New York State Archives, Albany, New York, New York City Archives, lower Manhattan, New York City Current Activities: teach college full-time, many Internet based classes in business and computers, invest in securities, options, and real estate; build Japanese gardens, handyman for property that I own Husband, my wife is a senior attorney with the largest title insurance company in the United States; Father, 1 daughter who is a tax attorney in a large firm in New York City, international tax Hobbies: gardening, swimming, walking, computer games, Internet research, travel: Europe 20+ times, Egypt, Crete, Mexico, Hawaii 10 times Author: Doctoral Dissertation (sold well), 20+ publications, University of Michigan Doctoral Dissertation, academic journals, industry publications, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and other newspapers; 20+ presentations at academic conferences. Published and presented paper on Van Tassel family 17th century history at New York State History Conference and Genealogy Society Conference, Swarthmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York. In 1976 I found out that I am a descendant of a man who came from (North Sea island in Holland) Texel (as in Van Tessel) to Long Island, New York, then New Amsterdam, in about 1625 and married a Native American Indian Sachem (chief of chiefs), I found that all of the Van ...(read more)