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Meet Jim Oelschlager

    James D. Oelschlager has more than 38 years of investment experience. He founded Oak Associates in 1985. Mr. Oelschlager holds a BA in Economics from Denison University and a JD from Northwestern University School of Law.

    He founded the Oak Clinic for Multiple Sclerosis in 2001. Diagnosed with multiple sclerosis at age 31, Oelschlager’s courage and optimism have enabled him to accept and tolerate the debilitating effect of the disease.

    Born in Pittsburgh in 1942, he graduated from Denison University in 1964 with a BA in Economics and earned his law degree from Northwestern University Law School in 1967. He joined the G.D. Searle Company’s legal department and moved to the financial side of the company as assistant treasurer prior to joining Firestone ‘in 1969.

    Jim and his wife, Vanita, actively support numerous higher education projects at Denison University and several other colleges and universities in Ohio and Tennessee, as well as the United Way and the National MS Society. In 1997 he was honored at the National MS Dinner of Champions in New York with a Special Achievement Award.

Sources: Oak Associates, Oak Clinic, Akron Roundtable

Hear Jim’s March 1998 speech at the Akron Roundtable

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A Thousand Splendid Suns/
Kite Runner

Double book exploration

Book Exploration
By Chuck Bowen

In his first novel The Kite Runner, and now A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini writes about the Afghans caught in the middle of a seemingly endless string of wars and battles for power. Both novels paint a grim and moving picture of life in a war-torn country, and of lives lived in the face of hunger, death and a bleak future. Hosseini makes you realize that, even while bombs rain down and people are dying of hunger, people still fall in love, seek friends and, mostly, try to remain human.