Background
Yntema, Theodore Otte was born on April 8, 1900 in Holland, Michigan, United States. Son of Dottwe Bauke and Mary Elizabeth (Loomis) Yntema.
Yntema, Theodore Otte was born on April 8, 1900 in Holland, Michigan, United States. Son of Dottwe Bauke and Mary Elizabeth (Loomis) Yntema.
AB summa cum laude, Hope College, 1921. Doctor of Science, Hope College, 1960. Master of Arts in Chemistry, University Illinois, 1922.
Master of Arts in Business, University Chicago, 1924. Doctor of Philosophy in Economics, University Chicago, 1929. Student, Harvard, 1927.
Doctor of Laws, Grinnell College. Doctor of Laws, Franklin and Marshall College. Doctor of Laws, Central Michigan University.
With, University of Chicago, 1923-1949;
instructor accounting, professor statistics, University of Chicago, 1930-1944;
professor business and economics policy, University of Chicago, 1944-1949;
director research, Cowles Commission, 1939-1942;
vice president finance, Ford Motor Company, 1949-1961;
chairman finance committee, Ford Motor Company, 1961-1965. Director research Cowles Commission, 1939-1942. Acting associate professor statistics Stanford University, 1929-1930.
Consultant economist various companies, 1933-1949, 1965-1985. Economics consultant National Recovery Administration, 1934-1935. Chief statistician division industrial materials Defense Commission, 1940.
Special consultant War Shipping Administration, 1942. Research director Committee Economics Development, 1942-1949, chairman research and ploicy committee, 1961-1966. Visiting professor University of Chicago, Carnegie Institute Technology, Oakland U., Rochester, Minnesota, 1965-1985.
Board directors Bell & Howell, Huyck Corporation, Encyclopedia Britannica. Director National Indl. Conference Board, National Bureau Economics Research.
Trustee Canbrook Institute of Science, Cranbrook Academy Art, Committee for Economic Development, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Tax Foundation Inc., University Chicago, Michigan Colleges Foundation. Fellow American University Chicago, American Statistical Association, Econometric Society, American Association for the Advancement of Science, An. Academy Arts and Sciences.
Member American Economic association, American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, Institute MAth. Statistics, Mont Pelerin Society, Council on Foreign Relations, Detroit Athletic Club, Detroit Club, Bloomfield Hills Country Club, Bloomfield Open Hunt Club, Recess Club.
Married Kathryn Elizabeth van der Veen, August 8, 1923. Children: Elizabeth, John Arend. Married Virginia Heigho Payne, July 31, 1939.
Children: Virginia Gwin, Theodore Otte Junior. Married Christa Gievers.