16 Facts About Jerry Lee

Jerry Lee was born on April 20,1936 in Sharon, Pennsylvania and is the President of SpotQ Services Inc and the Lee Foundation.

Jerry Lee was the former owner of Philadelphia Radio Station, WBEB-FM, the last independent radio station in a major media market.

In 1960, Jerry Lee graduated from Youngstown State University in Ohio with a bachelor's degree in Economics.

Jerry Lee was first elected to the Board of Directors of the National Association of Broadcasters in 1969.

Jerry Lee then developed the concept of The Broadcast Minority Fund, responsible for $100 million in loans to provide minority ownership of broadcast properties.

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In 1997, the University of Maryland's Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice invited Jerry Lee to serve as Chair of the Advisory Board of its multi-million dollar “Preventing Crime” program, which extended the work of its landmark 1997 Report to the US Congress on Preventing Crime: What Works, What Doesn't, What's Promising.

Jerry Lee Foundation enlisted other donors to support the Maryland Criminology Department in making term appointments of two research assistant professors, and of David Farrington as a Research Professor.

In 2000, Jerry Lee founded the Jerry Lee Center of Criminology at the University of Pennsylvania with a multimillion-dollar gift.

The Jerry Lee Foundation supported this Center with an initial gift of $5 million, and continues to be a major donor.

The Jerry Lee Foundation endowed two Jerry Lee assistant professorships in Criminology at Penn, to which such distinguished criminologists as John MacDonald and Charles Loeffler were appointed.

In 2007, the Jerry Lee Foundation pledged £1,000,000 to create the Jerry Lee Centre of Experimental Criminology at the University of Cambridge.

In 1999, Jerry Lee was elected head of Drexel University's Department of Education's Advisory Board, in Philadelphia and was asked to join the Board of Philadelphia Reads, a literacy effort headed by the Mayor of Philadelphia.

Jerry Lee funded a study to determine the cost effectiveness of technology in the learning process.

Jerry Lee received the “Great Friends to Kids” and was named to the National Advisory Board of the Salvation Army and in 1999 he was elected as Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Greater Philadelphia Salvation Army.

In 2003, Jerry Lee was elected to the Board of Directors of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, the oldest social science society in the US, founded in 1889.

Jerry Lee has received a number of awards and recognition for his radio work:.