Donald Hills Avery

Background

Avery, Donald Hills was born on May 7, 1937 in Hartford, Connecticut, United States. Son of Charles Raymond and Loma Ellinor (Mulholland) Avery.

Education

Student, Loomis Institute, 1951-1955; Bachelor of Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1959; Doctor of Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1962; Master of Arts, Brown U., 1969.

Career

President, Strathmore Research Company, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1961-1969; director research, Armor Flite Group, Rangely, Maine., 1973-1983; president, A.T.S. Cons. Engineers, since 1980; director, A.P.C. Engineers, East Providence, Rhode Island, 1977-1982; assistant professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1962-1966; assistant professor, Brown U., 1966-1969; associate professor, Brown U., 1969-1974; professor engineering, Brown U., 1974-1997; professor emeritus, Brown U., since 1997. Visiting scholar, professor of University Capetown, 1974, 76, 79, 82, 83.

Visiting fellow Yale University School Forestry, New Haven.

Achievements

• Donald Hills Avery has been listed as a noteworthy Metallurgist, educator, ethnographer by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member American Institute of Mining, Metallurgy, and Petroleum Engineers (Metallurgical Society), American Association for the Advancement of Science, Amateur Athletic Union, American Society Metals (past chairman Rhode Island, Howe medal 1965), Society Plastics Engineers, Society Automotive Engineers, History Metallurgical Society, History Science Society, Society History Technology, Hope Club, Explorers Club, Athenaeum, Barrington Yacht Club, Kasungu Farmers.

Connections

Children: Jon Weymouth, Nathaniel Caleb, Jessica van Voast. Married Mariana Pinchot, December 3, 1994.

Father:

Charles Raymond Avery

Mother:

Loma Ellinor (Mulholland) Avery

Spouse:

Mariana Pinchot

child:

Jessica van Voast Avery

child:

Nathaniel Caleb Avery

child:

Jon Weymouth Avery