Wesley Horace Loomis, III

Background

III, Wesley Horace Loomis, was born on July 29, 1913 in Kansas City, Missouri, United States. Son of Wesley Horace, Junior and Mary (Gary) L.

Education

Graduate, Hackley School, Tarrytown, New York, 1931. Bachelor of Science in Engineering and Business Adminstrn, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1935.

Career

Industrial engineer, Automatic Elec. Company, Chicago, 1935-1942; president, Loomis Advertising Company, 1946-1955; president, General Telephone Directory Company, Des Plaines, Illinois, 1956-1978; vice president, Dominion Directory Company, Vancouver, B.C., 1956-1964; president, Dominion Directory Company, 1964-1978; president, Courtnay Proprietary, Ltd., Adelaide president, Courtnay Proprietary, Ltd. S.A. Australia, Directories (Australia) Proprietary, Ltd., Melbourne, Australia, General Telephone Directory Company C por A, Santo Domingo, 1971-1978; president, Directorio Telefonico Centroamericano, S.A., 1972-1978; director, Directorio Telefonico de El Salvador (SA).

Achievements

• Wesley Horace Loomis III has been listed as a noteworthy publishing company executive by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

President Episcopalian Charities 1969-1970, director, 1962-1983, now life trustee. Trustee emeritus United States Naval Academy Foundation, Annapolis, Maryland. Board directors Traveler Aid Society Metropolitan Chicago/Immigrants' Service League, 1957-1980, president, 1960-1961.

Chairman Travelers Aid International, Social Service American, 1973-1977. Board directors Travelers Aid Association American, 1977-1982, president, 1978-1980. President Indiana Telephone History Foundation, 1967-1981, trustee, 1981-1998.

Trustee emeritus Colby-Sawyer College, New London, New Hampshire, secretary, 1976-1981. Member corporation development committee Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1979-1981. Trustee Illinois Business Hall of Fame, 1981-1983.

Board directors, trustee, chairman planning committee Mote Marine Laboratory, Sarasota, Florida, since 1983. Served to lieutenant colonel, Ordnance Army of the United States, 1942-1946. Member Indiana Telephone Pioneers Association (president 1964-1966), Racquet Club (Chicago), Field and Bird Key Yacht (Sarasota), Masons (32 degree), Phi Gamma Delta.

Connections

Married Mary Bradford Paine, April 17, 1937 (deceased February 1998). Children: Mary Elizabeth (Mistress R.M. Norton), Jonathan Lee (deceased), Frederick Pierson.

Father:

Wesley Horace L.

Mother:

Mary (Gary) L.

Spouse:

Mary Bradford Paine

child:

Mary Elizabeth III (Mistress R.M. Norton)

child:

Frederick Pierson III

child:

Jonathan Lee III (deceased)