Stanley Foster Reed

Background

Reed, Stanley Foster was born on September 28, 1917 in Bogota, New Jersey, United States. Son of Morton H. and Beryl (Turner) Reed.

Education

Student, George Washington University, 1939-1940;

student, Johns Hopkins, 1940-1941;

Master of Business Administration, Loyola University, Maryland., 1981.

Career

He started a roofing company and worked briefly at a sheet metal factory for Pittsburgh Steel. In 1940, at age 23, he started up a company, renting a two-story building next to a junk yard along the C & O canal in Georgetown.

While others in his generation were fighting in World War II, Reed focused on building the eponymous Reed Research in Washington, D.C.

He was admitted to membership in the Society of Naval Architects and received certification as a Professional Engineer (PE). In 1962, after selling Reed Research to Log-Etronics, Incorporated., he started Technical-Audit as well as the Reed Research Institute for Creative Studies in the Radio Corporation of America Building on K Street in Washington, where he ran a number of publishing businesses.

In the 1960s, he wrote an article on the poor of Appalachia. He also participated as a panelist in seminars of the Aspen Institute and as a guest lecturer at various universities including the University of Colorado’s World Affairs Conference and Georgetown University, where he famously denounced the ethics of Murray Fishel.

His was once listed in Marquis Who’s Who. He also started a mergers newsletter and a website in his later years. In the mid-1960s, he read an entire collection of poetry. At the time of death he was dictating dozens of imaginary letters to Thomas Jefferson and Sally Heming.

Also in the 1970s, he earned an Master of Business Administration from Loyola College in Baltimore, Maryland at the age of 64. Reed sang at family gatherings and insisted that guests march to self-composed polkas.

Reed sold two of his publications to Hay Associates, where he worked as a consultant in the early 1980s. Reed lived in McLean, Virginia, for 40 years. In 1994, he moved to Charleston, South Carolina (U.S.) to take a position as the Entrepreneur-in-Residence at the College of Charleston, where he taught advanced management courses.

He also lived in Annapolis, Maryland (U.S.), and before entering the University of Virginia Medical Center, lived in Culpeper, Virginia. On October 25, 2007, in Charlottesville, Virginia., he died at the University of Virginia Medical Center of subdural trichomoniasis. He was 90.

Achievements

• Stanley Foster Reed has a paid profile in Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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Membership

Board directors National Patent Council, 1970-2007. Founder, chairman ann Merger Week, Washington, 1973-1977, Northwestern University, 1977-1987. Entrepreneur-in-Residence, member advisory board Tate Center Entrepreneurship, College Charleston, South Carolina.

Member Society Naval Architects and Marine Engineers (life), American Economic Association, Dictionary Society of North America, La Confrerie des Chevaliers du Tastevin (chef de protocol), New York Yacht Club.

Personality

Difficult, abrasive multiple divorcee.

Physical Characteristics: Small of stature.

Connections

Married Stella Swingle, September 28, 1940 (divorced 1978). Children: Nancie, Beryl Ann, Alexandra. Married Shirley Weihman, September 28, 1985 (deceased February 1988).

Married Catherine Case Commander, December 16, 1989 (divorced 1991).

Father:

Morton H. Reed

Mother:

Beryl (Turner) Reed

Spouse:

Catherine Canine Commander

Spouse:

Stella Swingle

Spouse:

Shirley Weihman

child:

Alexandra Reed

child:

Beryl Ann Reed

child:

Nancie Reed