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After graduating from Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington, Ronald Brian Wheatley served as a Peace Corps Volunteer English teacher in Nigeria, West Africa. Upon returning home he taught a year at McIlveigh Junior High School in Tacoma, Washington. In 1966, Wheatley was drafted and he served with the US Army’s First Signal Brigade in Vietnam 1967-68.
During the Ford and Carter Administrations, he served as Legal Assistant for The White House Office of Telecommunications Policy and as Foreign Service Officer with the Department of State respectively.
Wheatley was Regional Attorney, Northeast Region (New York plus New England) for AT&T Government Relations. He later served as a Hearing Officer for the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities.
A practicing attorney admitted to the Massachusetts and District of Columbia bars, he has a law practice in Scituate. Wheatley is a member of the Massachusetts Society of the Sons of the American Revolution and author of the docudrama The Trial of Phillis Wheatley produced at Bridgewater University, and scheduled to be published this fall. He is the author of the “Calling All Veterans” column appearing in the Scituate Mariner.
Wheatley is married to Ethel Zerega Kent and they have a son, John, and daughter, Elizabeth, who designed the cover for his book, A Song of Africa.
Set in Nigeria in 1966 during the Biafran War, A Song of Africa is a vivid depiction of three Americans playing out their battles of conscience, pride, and passion that draws on the author’s experience as a Peace Corps volunteer in that country. The book was awarded best historical fiction published in 2011 by Books and Authors.
