Background
Seedlock, Robert Francis was born on February 6, 1913 in Newark. Son of Frank Andrew and Mary Elizabeth (Prosner) Seedlock.
engineering and construction company executive
Seedlock, Robert Francis was born on February 6, 1913 in Newark. Son of Frank Andrew and Mary Elizabeth (Prosner) Seedlock.
Student at Saint Mary"s Junior College in Raleigh North Carolina, Hortense Norton met Cadet Bob Seedlock when she visited the United States Military Academy where he was editor of "The Pointer. Student Case Institute.Tech. Graduate Armed Forces Staff College, 1948, National War College, 1958.
Registered profile engineer, District of Columbia, Pennsylvania Commissioned Second lieutenant United States Army, 1937, advanced through grades to major general, 1963. Assistant to district engineer, Pittsburgh, 1937-1939, Tulsa Aircraft Assembly Plant, 1941. Regimental executive battalion commander Engineer Unit Training Center, Camp Claiborne, Louisiana, 1942.
Assistant theatre engineer, China, Burma, India Theatre of Operations, also commander Burma Road Engineers, also chief engineer Shanghai Base Command, 1943-1945.
Member General Marshall"s Mediation Mission, Peking, 1946-1947. Member general staff United States Army, Member American delegate Far Eastern Commission,1948-1949.
Aide to chief staff United States Army, 1949-1954. Member United States delegate NATOMinisterial Conference, 1952-1953.
Deputy division engineer Mediterranean division, 1954-1957.
Military assistant to assistant secretary defense for public affairs, 1958-1962. Division engineer Missouri River, Omaha, 1962-1963. Senior member United Nations Military Armistice Commission, of Korea, 1963-1964.
Director military personnel Office deputy chief of staff for personnel Department Army, 1964-1966.
Director military construction Office Chief of Engineers, 1966. Commanding general United States Army Engineer Center and Fort Belvoir, Virginia, and commandant United States Army Engineer School, Fort Belvoir, 1966-1968, retired, 1968.
President Yuba Industries, 1968-1969, vice president Standard Prudential Corporation (merged with Yuba Industries), 1969-1970. Vice-president, director Petro-Chemical Development Company, Incorporated., New York City, 1968-1970, Petchem Construction Company.
New York City, 1968-1970, Petrochem.Isoflow Furnaces, Limited.
(Canada), 1968-1970. Director construction and development Portuguese Authority of Allegheny County, Pittsburgh, 1970-1973. Associate Parsons, Brinckerhoff, Quade & Douglas, New York City, 1973-1975, manager Southern region, 1975-1977.
Deputy project director Parsons, Brinckerhoff-Tudor-Bechtel, Atlanta, 1973-1977.
Program director Ralph M. Parsons Company, Pasadena, California, Philadelphia andWashington, 1977-1983. Construction engineering 1983-1997. Director T.Y. Lin Intrnational, 1985-1989.
Chief liaison, consultant Chinese Academy Science for Beijing Institute Management, 1985-1989.
United States representative to Permanent Technology Committee Number 1 of Permanent Intrnational Association of Navigation Congresses, 1984-1993. President First American chapter Burma Star Association, 1984-1998.
Chairman Sino-American Ventures, Incorporated., 1987. Consultant The Knowledge Company, 1989, Dove & Associations, 1990.
Member radio engineering advising committee Voice of America, 1990-1993.
Board directors Army and Air Force Exchange and Motion Picture Service, 1964. Member Mississippi River Commission, 1962-1963, Board Engineers Rivers and Harbor, 1962-1963, Defense Advisory Commission Education, 1964. Chairman Missouri Basin Inter-Agency Committee, 1962-1963.
Federal representative, chairman Big Blue River Compact Commission, 1962-1963. Member United States Committee on Large Dams, 1962-1982. Executive board National Capital Area council Boy Scouts American, 1967-1968, Atlanta area council, 1975-1977.
Fellow Society of America Military Engineers (national director, Cathedral Latin Alumni Association Man of the Year award 1992). Member American Society of Civil Engineers (honorary, aerospace division program committee 1980-1982, secretary executive committee 1982-1983, chairman 1984-1985, editor Journal Aerospace Engineering 1986-1993), Association United States Army, West Point Society New York (life), West Point Society Atlanta (president 1976), Burma Star Association (president 1st American chapter 1982-1998), Army-Navy Country Club (secretary, chairman board governors 1952-1954, 61-62), Metropolitan Club (New York City), Oglethorpe Club (Savannah, Georgia), Ansley Golf Club (Atlanta).
Married Hortense Orcutt Norton, September 1, 1937 (deceased August 2000). Children: Robert Francis, Elizabeth Munsell Seedlock Morrissette, Walter Norton, Mary Marion.