Simon David Strauss

Background

Strauss, Simon David was born on July 24, 1911 in Lima, Peru. Son of Lester W. and Bertha (Miller) Strauss.

Education

Student, Mackay School, Valparaiso, Chile, 1921. Student, Townsend Harris Hall, New York City, 1927. Doctor of Laws, University Arizona, 1981.

Career

Assistant editor Engineering and Mining Journal, 1927-1932. Editor Madison Eagle, New Jersey, 1932-1934. Economist Standard Statistics Company, 1935-1941.

Assistant to deputy administrator Federal Loan Agency, 1941. Assistant vice president, vice president Metals Reserve Company, 1942-1945. Sales department Asarco, Inc., 1946.

Sales manager American Smelting & Refining Company, 1947-1971, vice president, 1949-1971, executive vice president, 1971-1977, vice chairman, 1977-1979, also director, 1953-1981. Consultant industrial firms, since 1981. Governor New York Commodity Exchange Inc., 1947-1963.

Director, member executive committee Zinc Institute, 1953-1977, president, 1957-1959, 73-75. Consultant Defense Materials Procurement Agency, 1951-1952, Office Defense Mobilization, 1954-1955. Member advisory committees Munitions Board.

Member advisory committee National Growth Policies, 1976, visiting lecturer Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1977-1984, Columbia University, 1988. Lecturer Pennsylvania State University, 1978, Polytechnic Institute New York, 1978, University Arizona, 1979, 80, Columbia University, 1982, University California, Berkeley, 1986.

Achievements

• Simon David Strauss has been listed as a noteworthy manufacturing executive by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • Trouble in the Third Kingdom: Minerals Industry in Transition

    (Softcover 6" X 9" 227 pages. B/W graphs.)

Membership

Trustee Manhattan School Music, 1958-1979, vice president, 1966-1979. Board directors International Copper Research Association. Member board governors National Mining Hall of Fame and Museum, Leadville, Colorado, since 1987.

Member Lead Industries Association (president 1964-1966, executive committee, director, vice president 1967-1969, president 1970-1971), Silver Institute (director, president 1971-1973, chairman board 1974-1976), American Bureau Metal Statistics (chairman 1975-1977), Copper Club (president 1967-1968), Mining and Metallurgical Society of America (Gold medal 1984), American Institute Mining and Metallurgical Engineers (honorary), Council Foreign Relations. Clubs: Mining, Stockbridge Golf.

Connections

Married Elaine Ruth Mandle, September 1, 1936 (deceased). Children: Peter Lester, Susan Dee (Mistress Samuel Carson Orr). Married Janet McCloskey Robbins, December 19, 1982.

Father:

Lester W. Strauss

Mother:

Bertha (Miller) Strauss

Spouse:

Janet McCloskey Robbins

Spouse:

Elaine Ruth Mandle

child:

Peter Lester Strauss

child:

Susan Dee Strauss (Mistress Samuel Carson Orr)