Professions: Accomplished the first railroad end-to-end merger in the United States, combining Chessie System and Seaboard Coastline railroads to form the present CSX Corporation, while acting as chief legal officer of Chessie System Railroads in Cleveland, Ohio where he served as senior vice president of law and casualty prevention; president, managing partner and general counsel of various real estate companies; vice president, secretary and general counsel of Standard Brands, Inc. (1971-76); director of policy planning at the Antitrust Division of the US Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. (1969-71); law clerk for the then-New York supreme court justice Charles Breitel (1963-64); worked for Davis Polk & Wardwell in New York City (1957-63, 64-69); chief legal officer aboard a heavy cruiser, The Baltimore, which represented the United States at the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II; later separated from the Navy with the rank of lieutenant. Passions: Founding board member of The Director’s Association of Sheraton Franchisees of North America; life member of the American Law Institute, arbitrator for the American Arbitration Association and past member of the Board of DOCA (Defense Orientation Conference Association); elected to the Board of Governors of the Yale University Alumni Association; on the Board of Directors of the Alumni Fund; fellow of Timothy Dwight College; secretary of the Class of ’52; chairman of the Yale Cleveland Area Campaign from 1991 until 1997; longtime trustee of the Yale Alumni Association of Cleveland; member of many clubs: the Carolina Yacht Club and Country Club of Charleston in Charleston, S.C., the Kirtland Club, the Union Club and the Cleveland Racquet Club in Cleveland, the Metropolitan Club and Chevy Chase Club in Washington, D.C., and the Union Club in New York City; enthusiastic player of tennis, squash and golf.

Degrees: LLB Harvard, 1957; B.A. Yale.

Death: October 4, 2006.

From [http://www.legacy.com/Obituaries.asp?Page=LifeStory&PersonId=19504582 Legacy.com].