Background
Zalinski, Edmund Louis Gray was born on August 18, 1915 in Salt Lake City. Son of Edward Robins and Agnes (de Schweinitz) Zalinski.
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Zalinski, Edmund Louis Gray was born on August 18, 1915 in Salt Lake City. Son of Edward Robins and Agnes (de Schweinitz) Zalinski.
AB, Cornell University, 1937. Master of Business Administration, Harvard, 1938. Doctor of Philosophy summa cum laude, New York University, 1944.
Manager sales offices, New York Life Insurance Company, 1938-1947;
assistant vice president, New York Life Insurance Company, 1951-1952;
2d vice president, New York Life Insurance Company, 1953-1954;
vice president, New York Life Insurance Company, 1954-1955;
instructor, New York University, 1944-1946;
1st managing director, Life Underwriter Training Council, 1947-1951;
founder, life trustee, Life Underwriter Training Council, 1947-1997;
executive vice president, National Association Life Underwriters, 1949-1951;
vice president, chairman agency committee, John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company, Boston, 1955-1957;
president, Chief Executive Officer, Life Insurance Company North America, 1957-1971;
pres, director, INA Life Insurance Company New York, 1968-1972;
vice-president, director, INA Properties, Inc.
vice-president, director, INA Trading Corporation
vice-president, director, Philadelphia Investment Corporation
director, chairman of the executive committee, Bryn Mawr Trust Company, 1963-1988;
chairman, Greit Realty Trust, 1966-1979. Board directors leasing companies. Board directors Transwall Corporation, B.G. Balmer Company, Integra Life Sciences Corporation.
Member of advisory county Underwriter Edition and Training, 1947-1950, Joint Committee on Mmgt. Training, 1948-1951; member research advising committee Life Institute Agency Management Association, 1951-1957. Huebner Foundation lecturer American College, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, 1956.
Member visiting committee Graduate School Business Administration, HarvardColl., New York University. Trustee American College Life Underwriters, 1954-1972, chairman management education committee, 1957-1972, also chairman development committee. Treasurer, founder, chairman Life Underwriters Training Council, since 1947, life trustee, since 1968.
Trustee, member Executive Committee, vice president Philadelphia Museum Art, 1965-1972. Board directors Bureau Municipal Research, Philadelphia. Board directors, chairman of the executive committee Pennsylvania Economy League, 1963-1972.
Member Life Institute Association American (director 1970-1972), Insurance Federation Pennsylvania (director, Chairman.1970-1972), Newcomen Society, Loyal Legion, Sons of the American Revolution, Cornell Club Philadelphia (director), Harvard Business School Club Philadelphia (past president), Merion Cricket Club, Palmbrook Country Club.
Married Matilde Eleanor Mittendorf, July 15, 1939. Children: Nancy Zalinski Johnson, Matilde Zalinski Davidson, Susanne Zalinski Williams.