Background
Covey, Charles William was born on September 29, 1918 in Middlesboro, Kentucky, United States. Son of Charles G. and Bertha (Bowman) Covey.
Covey, Charles William was born on September 29, 1918 in Middlesboro, Kentucky, United States. Son of Charles G. and Bertha (Bowman) Covey.
Bachelor in Chemistry and Physics, Lincoln Memorial University, 1940.
Principal, Pruden (Tennessee) Elementary School, 1940-1941; field executive, Boy Scouts American, Elizabethtown, Kentucky, 1941; inspector, United States Army Ordnance Works, Sylacauga, Alabama, 1942; instructor army aviation course, Lincoln Memorial U., 1942-1943; instructor naval meteorology, Auburn Polytechnic Institute, 1943-1944; instructor instrument engineer, Union Carbide Nuclear Company, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, 1944-1947; head instrument engineering department, Union Carbide Nuclear Company, Paducah, Kentucky, 1952-1954; head customer and sales training, Taylor Instrument Company, Rochester, New York, 1947-1952; editor, Industry Standard Architecture Journal, Instrument Society American, Pittsburgh, 1954-1962; vice president, editorial director, Compass Publs., Inc., Arlington, Virginia, 1962-1974; also board directors program analyst, National Ocean Service, National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration, Washington, 1974-1985; president, Culco Marine Cons., since 1985.
Instructor adult education program University of Virginia, 1971-1974. Served with United States Naval Reserve, 1943-1944. Fellow Instrument Society American (president Oak Ridge 1946, Paducah 1953, national vice president, member Executive Board 1953, chairman national publications committee 1951-1952).
Founding member Marine Technology Society.
Married Mary Ruth Gibson, September 16, 1943. Children: Charles C., Catherine A.