Background
Pace, Stanley Carter was born on September 14, 1921 in Waterview, Kentucky, United States. Son of Stanley Dan and Pearl Eagle (Carter) Pace.
Pace, Stanley Carter was born on September 14, 1921 in Waterview, Kentucky, United States. Son of Stanley Dan and Pearl Eagle (Carter) Pace.
Student, University Kentucky, 1940. Bachelor of Science, United States Military Academy, 1943. Master of Science in Aeronautical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, 1949.
Doctor of Laws (honorary), Maryville College, 1987. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), University Missouri, 1990.
Commissioned Second lieutenant United States Army Air Force, 1943, advanced through grades to colonel, 1953. Pilot, flight leader B-24 Group, 15th Air Force, 1943-1944. Chief power plant branch, procurement division Headquarters Air Materiel Command Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, 1945-1948.
Assignments, procurement division Headquarters Air Materiel Command, 1949-1953. Deputy chief production Headquarters Air Materiel Command, 1952-1953. Resigned, 1954; with TRW, Inc., Cleveland, 1954-1985, successively sales manager, assistant manager, manager West Coast plant.
Manager jet division Tapco plant. Assistant manager Tapco group, 1954-1958, vice president, general manager, 1958-1965, executive vice president company, 1965-1977, president, 1977-1985, vice chairman, 1985, director, 1965-1985. Vice chairman, director General dynamics corporation, St. Louis, 1985, chairman, chief executive officer, 1985-1990, also board directors.
Head United Way drive, Cleveland, 1984. Former council commissioner, president Great Cleveland Council Boy Scouts American. Former trustee National Junior Achievement, Denison University, Washington University, Judson Park.
Former chairman Greater Cleveland Roundtable, Cleveland Foundation, National Association Manufacturers, Aerospace Indiana Association. Member American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Society Automotive Engineers, Union Club, Country Club, Chagrin Valley Hunt Club, Pepper Pike Club, Eldorado Country Club, Rolling Rock Club, St. Louis Country Club, Delta Tau Delta.
Married Elaine Marilyn Cutchall, August 21, 1945. Children: Stanley Dan, Lawrence Timothy, Richard Yost.