Background
Avery, Henry was born on October 6, 1919 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.
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Henry Avery
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Education
Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1941.
Career
Business development engineer G.L. Cabot Company, Boston, 1946-1951. General manager, plasticizer Coal Chemicals, Industrial Chemicals divisions Pittsburgh Coke and Chemical Company, 1951-1960. Executive vice president Pittsburgh Chemical Company, 1960-1966, also board directors.
Group vice president administration and development United States Ship Chemical, 1966-1968, vice president plastics, 1968-1976, vice president planning and development, 1976-1979, vice president planning, development and administration, 1979. Vice president Koch Development Company, 1979-1981, Koch Venture Capital, 1979-1981. President Avery Business Development Services, Waltham, Massachusetts, since 1981.
Lecturer seminar Strategic Planning, United Nations Economic Commission, Poland, 1979, Strategy Planning, Japan, 1979. Civilian aide to Secretary of Army for Western Pennsylvania, 1978-1986. Regional advisor Small Business Administration.
Achievements
Membership
Member Regional Export Expansion Council, United States Department Commerce. Member steering committee National Service Corps. United Mental Health Services of Allegheny County.
Chairman Massachusetts Institute of Technology Educational Council for Western Pennsylvania, American Wind Symphony (past vice president), National Conference of Christians and Jews. Past elder and deacon Mount Lebanon Presbyterian Church. Member Massachusetts Institute of Technology Alumni Association (past regional vice president, board directors), American Defense Preparedness Association (past president Pittsburgh chapter, national vice chairman, executive committee), Military Order of World Wars (commander 1976), Reserve Officer Association, Mayflower Descendants, Sons of the American Revolution, Greater Pittsburgh Chamber of Commerce (honorary life, past president, chairman board directors).
Clubs: Duquesne, University, Teachers College Press, Chemists, Sawgrass, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Faculty.
Connections
Married Mary Ruth Halverson.
