Robert Wayne Brocksbank

Background

Brocksbank, Robert Wayne was born on June 2, 1924 in Hudson, New York, United States. Son of Harold Ten Eyck and Helen (Beeler) Brocksbank.

Education

Bachelor of Science in Commerce, Drexel University, 1947.

Career

Varsity athletic coach, Friends Central Preparatory School, Philadelphia, 1946; with, Socony Vacuum Oil (now Mobil), Paulsboro, New Jersey, 1947-1955; staff assistant, manufacturing employee relations, Socony Mobil Oil (now Mobil), New York City, 1955-1957; assistant employee relations manager, Mobil Oil, New York City, 1957-1959; manager college relations and recruiting, consultant minority relations, Mobil Oil, New York City, 1959-1985.

Achievements

• Robert Wayne Brocksbank has been listed as a noteworthy oil company executive by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Consultant, Council on Career Development for Minorities, Dallas, since 1964, board, since 1968, chairman, 1981-1988, chairman emeritus, since 1988. Chairman National Urban League Summer Fellowship and Career Awareness Program, 1966-1981. Director Southeastern Economic Development Foundation, Atlanta, 1976-1985.

Trustee Tougaloo (Mississippi) College, 1977-1989. Executive advisory council Society Hispanic Professional Engineers, Los Angeles, 1977-1987. Chairman business advisory council Hampton (Virginia) Institute, 1978-1981, member, 1978-1986.

Member minority engineering corporation advisory board University Maryland, 1979-1985, chairman, 1979-1981. Member board visitors Drexel University School Business, Philadelphia, since 1980. Director National Consortium for Graduate Degrees for Minorities in Engineering, South Bend, Indiana, 1981-1984.

Member North Carolina Center University Business Advisory Council, 1970-1982, emeritus, since 1983. Trustee of education League of Latin American Citizens Award, 1983. Robert W. Brocksbank endowed scholarship fund established in his honor, 1985.

Major United States Marine Corps, 1942-1946, 50-52. Member American Assembly College Schools of Business (director 1980-1982, committee Upward Mobility for Minorities in Business), Cooperative Education Association, American Society Engineering Education, Northern Arizona University American Indian Sciences Engineering (honorary), Mexican-American Engineering Society, Western College Placement Association, Southern College Placement Association, Southwest College Placement Association, Texas Association Chicanos in Higher Education, International Platform Association, National American Indian Science and Engineering Society (advisory board since 1982, chairman 1985-1989, Sequoya fellow 1986, American Indian Sacred Eagle Feather award 1989, Lifetime Achievment award, 1991), Midwest College Placement Association, Middle Atlantic Placement Association (honorary), Eastern College Personnel Officers (honorary 1984, director 1961-1963), Marine Memorial Club, Marine Officers Association (life, Quantico, Virginia).

Connections

Married Grace Mary Wright, June 24, 1944 (divorced 1976). Children: Leslie B. Lucas, Stephanie Brocksbank, Sydney B. Napolitano. Married Karin Paulson, October 6, 1979.

Father:

Harold Ten Eyck Brocksbank

Mother:

Helen (Beeler) Brocksbank

Spouse:

Grace Mary Wright

Spouse:

Karin Paulson

child:

Sydney B. Napolitano Brocksbank

child:

Stephanie Brocksbank

child:

Leslie B. Lucas Brocksbank