Background
Connable, Alfred Barnes was born on February 20, 1904 in Kalamazoo. Son of Alfred B. and Frances (Peck) Connable.
Connable, Alfred Barnes was born on February 20, 1904 in Kalamazoo. Son of Alfred B. and Frances (Peck) Connable.
Student, Culver Military Academy, 1921; Bachelor of Arts, University of Michigan, 1925; Master of Business Administration, Harvard, 1929; Doctor of Humanities, Western Michigan U., 1962.
Sales assistant, Kalamazoo Vegetable Parchment Company, 1925-1928; assistant secretary, Selected Securities Corporation of Detroit, 1928-1930; successively assistant secretary, assistant vice-president and director of investment analysis department, Detroit Trust Company, 1930-1943; state price administrator for Michigan, OPA, 1942-1943; state manager, Wendell L. Willkie presidential campaign, 1943-1944; instructor investments and economics, Detroit Institute Technology, 1929-1930; chairman, director, Monroe Calculating Company, 1944-1958; chairman, Lafourche Realty Company, Inc., Kalamazoo director, Hayes-Albion Company, 1967-1974; director, Albion Malleable Iron Company, 1945-1967; director, American National Bank & Trust Company of Michigan, 1946-1976; director, Kalamazoo Sled & Toys Company, Inc., 1944-1968; director, Kalamazoo Ice and Fuel Company, 1945-1972; director, Hayes Industries, Inc., Jackson, Michigan, 1947-1967; director, KVP Sutherland Paper Company, 1946-1966; director, Litton Industries, 1958-1961. Regent University of Michigan, 1942-1958, emeritus, 1960.
Trustee Douglas Community Association. Trustee emeritus Western Michigan University. Member executive committee Community Chest.
Director, past president Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra Society. Member advisory council Association Governing Boards Universities, Colleges. Past president Association of Governing Boards of State Universities and Colleges, American Symphony Orchestra League (director).
Member executive committee Michigan Artrain, Inc. Former member Michigan State Council for the Arts. Member Pi Delta Epsilon, Alpha Kappa Psi, Delta Kappa Epsilon.
Clubs: Rotarian. (Detroit and Kalamazoo), University of Michigan (Detroit and Kalamazoo). Harvard (New York ).
Married Dorothy Jean Malcomson, April 15, 1927 (divorced 1972). Children: Nancy M., Alfred B. III, John Lee (deceased). Married Tenho S. Hindert, November 11, 1972.