Background
Webb, Edsel Philip was born on May 18, 1928 in Birmingham, Alabama, United States. Son of Evan Hall and Mary Lee (Hough) Webb.
Webb, Edsel Philip was born on May 18, 1928 in Birmingham, Alabama, United States. Son of Evan Hall and Mary Lee (Hough) Webb.
Bachelor of Science in Textiles, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1954. Master of Science in Industrial Management, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1955.
Textile manufacturer, Callaway Mills, Manchester and LaGrange, Georgia, 1954-1959; development engineer, Firestone Tire and Rubber Company, Akron, Ohio., 1959-1962; tire and process engineer radial tires, Firestone Tire and Rubber Company, Akron, Ohio., 1962-1965; manager international radial tire engineering, Firestone Tire and Rubber Company, Akron, Ohio., 1965-1968; sales engineer, manager water management, Firestone Coated Fabrics Company, Magnolia, Arkansas, 1968-1970; product sales manager fuel cells and allied products worldwide, Firestone Coated Fabrics Company, Magnolia, Arkansas, 1970-1975; developer of rubber-coated fuel tank for General Motors Corvette, Firestone Coated Fabrics Company, Magnolia, Arkansas, 1973-1975; sales manager coated fabrics northern division and international, Firestone Coated Fabrics Company, Magnolia, Arkansas, 1975-1979; sales manager Eastern United States, Canada and all exports, Firestone Coated Fabrics Company, Magnolia, Arkansas, 1979-1980; staff production, processing, testing and R & D engineer, Firestone Coated Fabrics Company, Magnolia, Arkansas, 1980-1983; staff production, processing, testing and R & D engineer, American Fuel Cell and Coated Fabric Company, Magnolia, 1983-1992; retired, American Fuel Cell and Coated Fabric Company, Magnolia, 1992; executive vice president, TFR Financial Superior vena cava syndrome, Magnolia, 1990-1993. Participant international conference for radial tire development and engineering Firestone Tire & Rubber Company, London, Rome, Madrid, and Hamburg, Germany, 1965. Served on team with representatives of Belgium, Sweden, Italy, England and Germany for North Atlantic Treaty Organization, 1974.
Assistant scoutmaster Troop 54 Boy Scouts American, Anchorage, 1947-1950. Assistant scoutmaster and scoutmaster Troop and Post 24, Manchester, Georgia, 1955-1956, explorer advisor, 1956-1958, explorer, scout commissioner, 1957-1959, institutional representative, 1957-1958. Assistant scoutmaster, member troop committee Troop 50, Akron, Ohio, 1960-1970.
Assistant scoutmaster Troop 49, Magnolia, Arkansas, 1971-1973, scoutmaster, 1973-1976, district chairman, district vice chairman, 1973-1976, member county Executive Board, since 1974, district commissioner, 1976-1979, 90-92, finance chairman, 1977-1978. Numerous other positions Boy Scouts American. Chairman manufacturing committee American's Public Works Association 85th Congress FWPA, 1968-1969.
Deacon Presbyterian Church, Ohio and Georgia, superintendent Sunday School, Ohio and Georgia, assistant superintendent Sunday School, Arkansas. President Men of Church, Ohio, Arkansas and Georgia. President Couples Club, Ohio.
Elder, trustee 1st Presbyterian Church, Magnolia. Teacher Sunday School. Stephen's minister Peachtree Presbyterian Church, Atlanta, since 1995.
Member various churches organizational committees. Member Volunteers in Probation, Volumes-in-Drug-Abuse Education Program, Ohio and Arkansas. Member of advisory board Magnolia Adult Drug Education Program.
Member DeSoto Area Council Executive Board, 1971-1993. Executive Board Atlanta Area county, since 1993, vice president camping committee, 1993-1996. Assistant leader Boy Scouts American Atlanta group to 1st Russian Boy Scouts American Jamboree, Russia, since 1994.
Member international committee as partner to World Scouting Program, Boy Scouts American, Atlanta, since 1990, member Jamboree committee Atlanta area county, 1997. Staff sergeant United States Air Force, 1946-1949, United States Air Force Reserve, 1949-1952. Member American Association Textile Chemists and Colorists, National Fire Protection Association, Southern Overseers Association, Society Automotive Engineers (member and consultant G9 and AE5 committee), Kiwanis, Junior Chamber of Commerce, Rotary, Masons, Toastmasters International (president club 151, district commissioner), Scottish Rite, Akron Rubber Group, Sigma Nu, Alpha Phi Omega (president, commissioner of scouting).
Married Mary Ann Pritchett, 1954. Children: Phyllis Ann, Rebecca Hough Webb Campbell, Jeffery, Richard.