Background
Sheppard, Walter Lee was born on June 23, 1911 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Walter Lee and Martha Houston (Evans) Sheppard.
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Walter Lee Sheppard
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Stepchildren: Charles H. Kendall Junior, John Atterbury Kendall. BChem, Cornell Univercity, 1932. Master of Science, University of Pennsylvania, 1933.
Career
Registered profile engineer, Delaware, California. Diplomate American Academy Environmental Engineers. Ordained deacon Liberal Catholic Church, 1954, priest, 1955, pastor.
Control chemist various companies, 1933-1935.
Advertising writer Northwest Ayer &Son, 1936-1937. Assistant to editor The Houghton Lincolnshire (East.F. Houghton Company),1937-1938.
Salesman Atlas Mineral Products, 1938-1948. Plant manager, cons.engr.
Tanks & Linings, Limited., Droitwich, England, 1948-1949.
Sales engineer, district manager ElectroChem. Engineering & Manufacturing, and successor companies, 1949-1968;national accounts manager, field sales manager Corrosion Engineering division Pennwalt Corporation, Philadelphia, 1968-1976. President C.C.R.M., Incorporated.
Consultant on chemically resistant masonry, 1976.
Professional genealogist, 1936.
Achievements
Membership
Served to major United States Army, 1941-1945, United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, 1945-1946. Member Class of 1928 United States Naval Academy, 1976. Elected 1942,; member American Society for Testing and Materials (membership secretary 1975-1983, C-3 committee), National Society of Professional Engineers, Veterans of Foreign Wars, American Academy Environmental Engineers, Welcome Society (president 1969-1976), Illegitimate Sons and Daus. of Kings and Queens of Britain (founder, secretary 1950-1968, president 1968-1988), Flagon and Trencher Society (co-founder, president 1967-1973), National Association Corrosion Engineers (certified competence in corrosion engineering, chairman Philadelphia section 1962), New England Historic Genealogical Society (commission on Heraldry, 1991), National Genealogical Society Quarterly (contributing editor), Genealogical Society Pennsylvania, Society Genealogists (London), Yorkshire Archeological Society, Savoy Company, Gilbert and Sullivan Society(founder, president Philadelphia branch 1957-1963), Sovereign Order Saint John of Jerusalem, Military Order Foreign Wars, Mayflower Descendants, Order of Three Crusades, Order of the Crown of Charlemagne in American (3rd vice president 1989-1995), Retired.Officers Association Kappa Psi (national vice president 1964-1968, president 1968-1970), Alpha Chi Sigma.
Connections
Married Dorothy Virginia Cosby Vanderslice, October 17, 1942 (divorced March 1947).
