Background
Huffine, Coy Lee was born on April 2, 1924 in Knoxville, Tennessee, United States. Son of Coy Mann and Inez Belle (Story) Huffine.
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Coy Lee Huffine, American chemical engineer, consultant. Served with United States Navy, 1945-1946. Member American Institute Chemical Engineers, American Institute of Mining, Metallurgy, and Petroleum Engineers, National Institute Ceramic Engineers, American Ceramic Society, New York Academy Sciences, Sigma Xi.
Education
Bachelor of Science, University Tennessee, 1945; Master of Sciences, University Tennessee, 1947; Doctor of Philosophy, Columbia University, 1953.
Career
Principal engineer, General Electric Company, Oak Ridge and Cincinnati, 1951-1959; research ceramist, General Electric Research Laboratory, Schenectady, 1959-1960; project manager development and manufacturing, space systems division, Avco Corporation, Lowell, Massachusetts, 1960-1967; with, International Business Machines Corporation, Rochester, Minnesota, 1968-1987; manager component technical, information systems division, International Business Machines Corporation, Rochester, Minnesota, 1980-1987. Consultant and lecturer in field. Lay-lecturer on history and philosophy of science Unitarian-Universalist Church.
Membership
Lay-lecturer history and philosophy science Unitarian-Universalist Church. Member of American Institute of Mining, New York Academy of Sciences, American Ceramic Society, National Institute Cermic Engineers, American Institute Chemical Engineers, Sigma Xi.
Connections
Married Virginia Elizabeth Browne, March 31, 1951. Children: Jeremy Bennett, Lucinda Jane.
