Some of My Experience

  • Born Feb. 16, 1926 in Webster Groves, MO
  • Married Helen Smith on Feb. 5 1949
  • BS in Chemical Engineering, Purdue U. 1945
  • MBA, University of Chicago, 1960
  • Navigator, then Executive Officer (chief operations officer) USS PCE 886
  • Taught business policy and strategy at University of Chicago and Northeastern University graduate schools of business
  • For three years, “Executive in Residence” at Northeastern
  • CEO, President, or Chairman of several successful corporations
  • Director of over a dozen corporations (1962 – 2002)
  • Management consultant, marketing and corporate strategy (25 years)
  • Author, “What’s Your Game Plan?” book on strategy published by Dow Jones – Irwin (1985) and translated into Japanese
  • Author of dozens of published articles on business policy, strategy and boards of directors
  • Director, Long-range Planning, Bell & Howell Corporation
  • Author of a booklet on establishing and operating a board of directors published by American Management Association
  • President, International Business Center of New England
  • Member, U.S. Dept. of Commerce Technical Advisory Board
  • Chairman, Parish Committee, First Parish Church, Beverly, Mass.
  • Chairman, Wenham, Mass. Town Democratic Committee
  • President, Unitarian Fellowship of La Grange, IL
  • Co-founder and principle funder of the Purdue Peace Project
  • Founding member, Board of Governors, BEFORE (an international peacebuilding organization)
  • Member, Executive Committee, Japan Society of New England
  • Member, Executive Committee, Vermont Studio Center (art colony)
  • Member, Executive Committee. Alliance for Peacebuilding.
  • Member, President’s Advisory Council, Unitarian Universalist Assn.
  • Member, Long Range Planning Committee, Eastern Point Yacht Club
  • Member, Board of Directors, Associated Industries of Massachusetts
  • Member, Strategy Committee, Manufacturing Chemists Association
  • Member, Collections Committee, Cape Ann Museum
  • Member, Advisory Board, Corporate Strategy Magazine
  • Founder, national organization of corporate Directors of Long-range planning
  • Treasurer of Democrat candidate’s campaign for U.S. Congress that unseated the Republican incumbent
  • Member of three town Democratic committees, Chairman of one
  • Member, Amesbury Monthly Meeting (Quaker)
  • Coauthor of the book Peace and Conflict since 1991 (2020)