Background
Callaway, Ely Reeves was born on June 3, 1919 in LaGrange, Georgia, United States. Son of Ely Reeves and Loula (Walker) Callaway.
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Ely Reeves Callaway
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Bachelor of Arts, Emory University, 1940; D. Textiles, Philadelphia College Textiles and Science, 1968.
Career
Sales executive, Deering, Milliken & Company, 1946-1954; vice-president, director, Amerotron Corporation division Textron, Inc., 1955-1956; joined, Burlington Industries, Inc., 1956; successively president various divisions, then vice president of corporation, Burlington Industries, Inc., 1960; executive vice president, Burlington Industries, Inc., 1961; president, Burlington Industries, Inc., 1968-1973; also director, member Executive Committee, management committee. Founder, owner-operator, Callaway Vineyard and Winery, Inc., Temecula, California, 1973-1981; founder, chairman, Chief Executive Officer, Callaway Golf Company (formerly Callaway Hickory Sticks), Carlsbad, California., since 1982.
Membership
Board of directors, chairman corporation giving United Negro College Fund, 1970-1971. Board Greater New York council Boy Scouts America. Board visitors Emory University.
Trustee Hampshire College, Amherst, Massachusetts, Menninger Foundation, Topeka, Kansas Served from Second lieutenant to major, Quartermaster Corps. Army of the United States, 1940-1945. Purchasing and contracting officer cotton clothing Philadelphia Question Manager Depot.
Connections
Married Jeanne Delaplaine Wiler, Oct.7, 1942 (divorced January 1960). Children: Ely Reeves III, Louise Wiler, Nicholas Delaplaine. Married Jane Dudley Atkins, December 28, 1961.
Married Lucinda Villa, 1983.
