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Funston, G. Keith, 1910-1992


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    • George Keith

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    • Funston, George Keith, 1910-1992
    • Funston, Keith, 1910-1992

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      • found: G. Keith Funston, 1952:title frame (Mr. G. Keith Funston, president of the New York Stock Exchange)
      • found: New York Stock Exchange. President's Office. G. Keith Funston papers, 1952-1967
      • found: infoplease, via WWW, August 16, 2013(Keith Funston; George Keith Funston; business executive, college president; born 1910 in Waterloo, Iowa; died 1992; after graduating from Trinity College (Hartford, Connecticut), and Harvard Business School, he worked as a salesman for American Radiator and Sylvania before becoming president of his undergraduate alma mater from 1945-1951; returning to business, he led the New York Stock Exchange from 1951-1967, overseeing its expansion; he was a part-time chairman of the Olin Mathieson Chemical Company from 1967-1972)
      • found: The New York Times, via WWW, August 16, 2013(May 16, 1992 edition; Keith Funston, Head of Big Board Through '50s Revival, Dies at 81; George Keith Funston; born October 12, 1910 in Waterloo, Iowa; spent most of his youth in Sioux Falls, S.D.; he was valedictorian of the Class of 1932 at Trinity College; two years later he received an M.B.A. degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration; he began his business career in 1935 as a sales executive of the American Radiator and Standard Sanitary Corporation and moved to the treasurer's office in 1938; he joined Sylvania Electric Products as director of sales planning in 1940 and was soon promoted to director of purchasing; he took a leave of absence from Sylvania in late 1941 to serve as special assistant to Sidney J. Weinberg, deputy chairman of the War Production Board, and later to Donald M. Nelson, the board's chairman; Mr. Funston left the board in early 1944 to become assistant director, with the rank of lieutenant commander, at the United States Navy's Industrial Readjustment Branch; in June 1944, while in that post, he was named president of Trinity, although he did not assume the post until November 1945; he maintained close ties to the college long after his move to Wall Street in 1951; after leaving the exchange in 1967, Mr. Funston became part-time chairman of the Olin Mathieson Chemical Corporation; he held that post until 1972, along with many other corporate directorships; he died May 15, 1992 at his summer home in Greenwich, Conn.; Mr. Funston did not use his first name, preferring to be called Keith)

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      • 2013-08-19: new
      • 2013-08-20: revised

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