Robert Gillis
grew up in Dorchester, Massachusetts and is
a graduate of
Boston College High School and
U/Mass Boston. He
and his wife Susan live in Foxboro, home of
the three time Super Bowl champion New England Patriots, with their
"kids," a German shepherd and a
very opinionated Moluccan Cockatoo parrot.
Although he's been a
professional computer geek for over
20 years, his first love has always been
writing, and he has written a regular opinion
piece for the
Foxboro Reporter
since 1996. Since 2006 he has also been writing for the Boston City Paper.
Nearly of his published writing can be found on
his blog at www.robertxgillis.com.
He's lived in Foxboro nearly 20 years and has a
passionate love for his home town. He is very active in the Foxboro community;
in addition to being on the board of directors of the Foxboro
Jaycees from 2000-2008, he has participated in and chaired
many Jaycee community development projects over the years, and
he has served as that
organization's web master since 1998. He has a great love for the group's
primary fund raiser, its Haunted House (the largest non-profit Haunt in New
England since 1989) and has been a part of it since he joined the Jaycees in
1993.
Foxboro Jaycees annual awards received:
Project of the year: Jaycee Website (2002-2003)
Membership project of the year: Jaycee Website (1998-1999), (2000-2001), (2001-2002), (2003-2004), (2004-2005), (2005-2006), (2006-2007),
and (2007-2008)
Director of the year: (2001-2002) and (2002-2003)
New project of the year: September 11 Memorial (2002-2003)
New project of the year: September 11 Five Year Memorial (2006-2007)
Community Development project of the year: September 11 Five Year Memorial (2006-2007)
He created and maintains the web site for the
Foxboro Doolittle Home, a life care retirement center where senior
citizens live their lives in dignity and
quality of life. He has been asked to take, and has accepted, a position on the
board of trustees for the Doolittle Home.
He and his
wife have also run food drives for the Foxboro Food Pantry.
He loves working cameras and doing occasional directing
for Foxboro
Cable Access.
Since 2005, he has taken his love of
photography in a new direction and is
selling his photographs at his website,
www.GillisPhotos.com.
"Nana"
is his first published book, a
labor of love, written in
memory of his beloved grandmother. He
hopes that anyone who has loved a senior
will read this book.
You can contact Robert at
robertxgillis@aol.com. He would be very interested to
discuss interview requests, book signings, etc.
