Background
Cowart, William Slater was born on October 31, 1917 in Cowart, Virginia, United States. Son of William Slater and Alice (Sherman) Cowart.
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William Slater Cowart
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Bachelor of Science in Engineering, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, 1940; postgraduate, Harvard, 1941; postgraduate, Massachusetts Institute Technology, 1942; Master of Science in Nuclear Physics, Ohio State University, 1947; postgraduate, George Washington University, 1949.
Career
Commissioned Second lieutenant, United States Army Air Force, 1940; advanced through grades to colonel, United States Air Force, 1949; director operations joint Task force armed forces and Atomic Energy Commission, Eniwetok and Bikini atolls, 1951-1954; commander, Tactical Strike Force, Langley Air Force Base, Virginia, 1955-1956; chief air research and development, Tactical Systems Division, 1957-1958; director, National Aviation Facilities Experimental Center, Atlantic City, 1958-1960; retired, 1960; with, Atlantic Electric Company, 1960-1981; senior vice president production, operations, sales, Atlantic Electric Company, 1966-1968; senior vice president customer and employee relations, sales, Atlantic Electric Company, 1968-1981; president, Atlantic Housing, Inc., Atlantic City, 1969-1995; vice president, Overland Realty, Inc., Atlantic City, 1971-1995; president, Traffic Technologies Research and Development Corporation, Stamford, Connecticut, 1981.
Achievements
Membership
Chairman West Jersey Bicentennial Corporation, 1970-1995, Mayor's Airport Committee, 1962-1995. President Atlantic County chapter American Cancer Society, 1965-1969. President Miss American Pageant, 1968-1972, board directors.
Member air-land service committee, board of directors New Jersey Citizens' Transportation Council, 1971-1995. President Transfair, New Jersey.Transp. Expns.; Board of directors Atlantic Area council Boy Scouts American, 1960-1968, Atlantic-Cape May council Girl Scouts United States, 1962-1968.
Board directors Delaware Valley council, 1969-1995, vice president, 1974-1995. Trustee Southern New Jersey Development Council. Chairman Atlantic County Private Industry Council, 1979-1995.
Metropolitan chairman National Alliance of Business, 1978-1995. Vice president, secretary Atlantic City television Corporation, 1978-1995. Regional advisory National Community Bank.
Member Atlantic City Chamber of Commerce (president, director), S. Jersey Chamber of Commerce (director), Edison Electric Institute (honorary member sale's executive conference).
Connections
Married Pauline Sara Cox, August 3, 1944. Children— William S. III, Paula Alyce, Zilla Virginia (Mrs.David Forsythe), Bryan Charles.
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American