Mr. Foster Friess
In 1974, Mr. Foster Friess founded a money management firm headquartered in Jackson, Wyoming that bears his name, Friess Associates. The three Brandywine Funds, Fortune 500-company pension funds, endowments, and institutional portfolios comprise its $16 billion of assets. Business Week magazine hailed Mr. Friess as, “the longest surviving successful growth stock picker.” Ron Insana of CNBC dubbed him “one of the last century’s greatest investors.”
Mr. Friess and his wife of 45 years, Lynn, established the Lynn and Foster Friess Family Foundation and two smaller foundations with $140 million from their firm's profits. These foundations make grants for small, entrepreneurial, faith-based urban charities. Mr. Friess’ foundations gifted GSHS their first Mobile Medical Unit and provided them with a matching grant for half the cost of their second Mobile Medical Unit.
Dr. John Crouch, Jr.
After graduating from Southern Illinois University and the University of Illinois, Urbana, in 1963, Dr. Crouch continued his education in medical school at Washington University School of Medicine and completed an internship and family practice residency at San Bernardino County Medical Center. Dr. Crouch has had a variety of experiences in his medical career, from holding positions in the ORU School of Medicine to a tour as a Medical Officer and a Battalion Flight Surgeon for the U.S. Army in Viet Nam.
Most recently, he joined with other physicians to form Family Medical Care of Tulsa and In His Image Family Medicine Residency Program. In addition, Dr. Crouch led In His Image, Inc., to join with Cornerstone Assistance Network to become co-founders of Good Samaritan Health Services, Inc.
ENTERTAINMENT:
Grady Nichols
Mr. Grady Nichols truly personifies today’s Smooth Jazz/Instrumental Pop scene. With four solo CD’s to his credit, Grady has been termed “the awesome new sax player for the millennium” by legendary fusion jazz great Jeff Lorber.
Grady Nichols’ audience is as diverse as his musical taste, reaching from Smooth jazz and Contemporary Christian to R&B and Pop.
Grady’s most recent CD, “Sophistication”, reached #28 of the top 50 smooth jazz records for 2004. “Sophistication” also received a Smoothie award for being the most purchased Jazz CD from smoothjazz.com. Grady’s CDs include “In The Fullness of Time”, “Between You and Me”, “Mysterious Intentions”, and his newest release “Sophistication.”