Arthur Wood

January 27, 1913 (age 93)

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Joined Sears, Roebuck and Company 1946, Company Secretary 1952-1961, Vice-President 1956. Board of directors since 1959; President’s Advisory Committee on Labor Manager, Business Council, National Industrial Energy Conservation Council. President and Comptroller 1960-1962, Vice-President in charge of Far West Territory 1962-1967, of Midwest Territory 1967, President 1968-1973. Chairman Board of directors and Chief Executive Sears Roebuck Foundation 1973-1978. Chairman United States Industrial Payroll Savings Committee Chicago since 1974, United States Public Oversight Board since 1984. Director Allstate Insurance Company, Continental Illinois Corporation, Simpsons-Sears Ltd., Homart Development Company, Quaker Oats Company, Council for Financial Aid to Education, United Way of America, Community Fund of Chicago. Trustee Tax Foundation Inc., Committee Economics Development, Art Institute of Chicago, Rush Presbyterian St. Luke's Medical Center.

Arthur MacDougall Wood

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Background

Wood, Arthur MacDougall was born on January 27, 1913 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of R. Arthur and Emily (Smith) Wood.

Education

AB, Princeton University, 1934. Doctor of Laws (honorary), Princeton University, 1976. Bachelor of Laws, Harvard University, 1937.

Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), DePaul University, 1977. Doctor in Humanics (honorary, Springfield College, 1978. HHD (honorary), Beloit College, 1981.

Career

Joined Sears, Roebuck and Company 1946, Company Secretary 1952-1961, Vice-President 1956. Board of directors since 1959; President’s Advisory Committee on Labor Manager, Business Council, National Industrial Energy Conservation Council. President and Comptroller 1960-1962, Vice-President in charge of Far West Territory 1962-1967, of Midwest Territory 1967, President 1968-1973. Chairman Board of directors and Chief Executive Sears Roebuck Foundation 1973-1978.

Chairman United States Industrial Payroll Savings Committee Chicago since 1974, United States Public Oversight Board since 1984. Director Allstate Insurance Company, Continental Illinois Corporation, Simpsons-Sears Ltd., Homart Development Company, Quaker Oats Company, Council for Financial Aid to Education, United Way of America, Community Fund of Chicago. Trustee Tax Foundation Inc., Committee Economics Development, Art Institute of Chicago, Rush Presbyterian St. Luke's Medical Center.

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Bar: Illinois 1937.

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General chairman United Crusade, Los Angeles County, 1966. Co-founder Chicago United, 1975. Governor United Way American, 1977.

Trustee Art Institute Chicago, chairman, 1978-1980. Life trustee Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center, Chicago. Former trustee California Institute of Technology, University Chicago.

Member Chicago Horticultural Society, trustee, 1992-1993. Member President Nixon's Labor-Management Committee, 1975, Council Minority Business Enterprises, 1970-1974. Board directors American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, 1978-1983.

With Field Artillery Army of the United States. Lieutenant colonel United States Army Air Force, 1941-1945. Member Business Council.

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Married Pauline Palmer (deceased 1984), November 17, 1945. Children: Pauline, Arthur MacDougall Junior.

Father:: R. Arthur Wood
Mother:: Emily (Smith) Wood
Spouse:: Pauline Palmer
child:: Pauline Wood
child:: Arthur MacDougall Junior Wood

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