Background
Jury, Floyd Derwood was born on March 7, 1934 in Dows, Iowa, United States. Son of Derwood and Edna Pauline (Barz) Jury.
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Floyd Derwood Jury
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Education
Student, Iowa State College, 1952-1954; Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering, U. Alabama, 1961; Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering, North Carolina State University, 1963.
Career
Television cameraman, Station WOI-television Broadcast Studios, Ames, Iowa., 1954-1955; rocket test engineer, Thiokol Chemical Company, Huntsville, Alabama, 1957-1959; member technical staff, Bell Telephone laboratories, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, 1961-1964; member technical staff, Bell Telephone laboratories, Whippany, New Jersey, 1964-1965; research engineer, Fisher Governor Company, Marshalltown, Iowa., 1965-1969; director education, Fisher Governor Company, Marshalltown, Iowa., 1969-1977; manager nuclear qualification, Fisher Controls International, Marshalltown, 1977-1989; manager engineering support services, Fisher Controls International, Marshalltown, since 1989. Instructor in physics Guilford College, Greensboro, North Carolina, 1963. Member of advisory county University of Wisconsin Technology Instruction Institute, Eau Claire, 1970-1971.
Achievements
Membership
Mentor Marshalltown High School, 1989-1990. President Iowa State Parent's Association, Ames, 1987-1988. Board directors Marshalltown School District, since 1989.
Member American Society of Mechanical Engineers (chairman nuclear qualification committee since 1985), Author's Guild, Marshalltown Evening Optimists (president 1987-1988), Sigma Xi, Tau Beta Pi, Pi Mu Epsilon, Pi Tau Sigma.
Interests
Connections
Married Shirley Hester Flint, October 5, 1957. Children: Michael Donald, Melanie Dianne, Michelle Dawn.
