Background
Graham, Beardsley was born on April 24, 1914 in Berkeley, California, United States. Son of Reuben Jacob and Kate Ellen (Beardsley) Graham.
Graham, Beardsley was born on April 24, 1914 in Berkeley, California, United States. Son of Reuben Jacob and Kate Ellen (Beardsley) Graham.
Bachelor of Science in Chemistry, Physics and Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley, 1935; postgraduate in Electronics, University of California, 1938-1940; postgraduate in Electronics, Columbia University, 1941-1942; postgraduate in Chemistry, Tufts U., 1942-1943.
Instructor, Edison Elec. School, Berkeley
frameman, Pacific Tel. & Tel. company, San Francisco, 1937-1939;
chief engineer, Golden Gate International Exposition Radio Corporation of America Manufacturing Company, 1939-1940;
development engineer, NBC, Hollywood, California, New York City, 1940-1942;
staff member radiation lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, 1942-1944;
chief engineer, head department special products development laboratories Eclipse-Pioneer division, Bendix Aviation Corporation, Teterboro, New Jersey
and Pacific division, Detroit, Bendix Aviation Corporation, Teterboro, New Jersey, 1946-1951;
chief engineer research laboratories, technical consultant to vice president research, Bendix Aviation Corporation, Teterboro, New Jersey
assistant chairman engineering department, Stanford Research Institute, Menlo Park, California, 1951-1956;
president, Spindletop Research, 1961-1967;
executive vice president, Sequoia Process Corporation, Redwood City, California, 1956-1957;
special assistant commercial satellites, Lockheed Aircraft Corporation, Palo Alto and Sunnyvale, California, 1957-1961;
manager satellite systems planning Air Force Satellite Systems Program, manager specialty sales department, Lockheed Aircraft Corporation, Palo Alto and Sunnyvale, California
president, Spindletop Research Inc., Lexington, Kentucky, 1961-1967;
consultant, Lockheed Aircraft Corporation, Palo Alto and Sunnyvale, California, since 1967;
private practice management consultant, Bend, Oregon, since 1967.
Pioneer in fields of new technologies and services including economics development, airpollution and environmental qualities, nuclear weapons and power, satellite systems. Board directors, incorporator (selected by President Kennedy) Communication Satellite Corporation, 1962-1964. Founding Chairman of the Board Videorecord Corporation American.
Member of advisory commission on isotope and radiation development Atomic Energy Commission, Kentucky, Atomic Energy and Space Authority, Kentucky advising committee on nuclear energy. Research.prof. electrical engineering U. Kentucky, 1965. Active in Microwave Communications Inc.
(now MCI), Aetna Life Inc., numerous other.
Vice president Bend Urban Area Planning Commission, 1983-1987. Vice chairman engineering technical advising committee Center Oregon Community Colls., since 1983, Citizens Committee for Cityhood, Yucca Valley, California, 1977. Member energy advising committee League Oregon Cities, 1983-1987.
Active various other civic organizations. Treasurer, Board of Governors ocm. for art Stanford University, 1956. Member Bend Traffic-Saftey Committee, 1987, Century, Central Oregon Council on Higher Education, since 1983.
Fellow Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (life), American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (associate). Member International Solar Energy Society (founding secretary, board directors 1953-1966), Solar Energy Association Oregon (parliamentarian 1986, Executive Board), International Club (Washington), Arizona Club, University Club (Los Angeles).
Married Frances Rose McSherry, June 17, 1951 (divorced March 1967). Children: McSherry, Heather. Married Lorraine Juliana Shaw, October 22, 1973.