| Parents: Education: Military Service: Marriage: Occupation: |
Leo "Leon" V. Stimmler Louise Viola Smith Attended Philadelphia area schools Graduated Villanova University 1962 BSc Economics U.S. Army active duty and reserves 1962-1970 Including Cuban Missile crisis 1st Lieut. Honorable Discharge Rita Gale Hare St. Gabriel's Catholic Church Glenolden, Delaware, Pennsylvania November 14, 1964 Rev. James A. Chapman officiated Job analyst in the labor relations department Minneapolis-Honeywell Co., Philadelphia [1964] |
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| Children: | Kristen | Oct. 1, 1966 | |
| Michele | May 22, 1968 | ||
| Andrew Paul | Jan. 28, 1970 | ||
| Alison | Nov. 29, 1972 |
| Notes: | Paul worked 37 years in Labor Relations, Human Resources, Investor Relations at Honeywell, Foote Mineral Co., |
| National Sugar, UGI Corp,
International Mill Service, Alco Standard Corp., and lastly 11 years
as Vice President/Corporate Secretary for Triumph Group, Inc. in
Wayne PA, a $550 million publicly traded (NYSE-TGI) aerospace/
aviation service company. Since July 31, 2000 he is voluntarily on part
time service with them. Paul is also on the Advisory Board at Penn
State University where he works about one or two days a week. In addition,
he works at brother Mark's marketing public relations firm one
day a week, babysits the three grandkids another and catches up on his
sportscar and classic car hobby the rest of the week.
Paul's biography is in the Dun & Bradstreet Reference Book of Corporate Managements, 1998 edition, Parsippany, NJ and he is listed in the Standard & Poor's Register of Corporations, Directors and Executives, 1984 edition, Volume 2. Paul Stimmler discusses his military service: "I had thought of the submarine service when I got rejected for Navy flight school at Pensacola, when I and they learned I had a visual depth perception problem (not great for carrier landings at night in rolling seas.) "Yes, I was devastated at flunking the vision re-test thing for the Navy because I had passed all the other mental tests, physical exams, psychological battery, etc etc and was ready to ship out when the deficiency turned up. What made it worse was that three of my college pals with whom I applied at the same time, all passed and left for flight school at NAS Pensacola a few weeks later. I still pass the building where that happened to me, at Willow Grove Naval Air Station on the way to my son's home and feel a twinge 40 years later. (April 1962) I sometimes still comment...' thats the building where I learned about my depth perception problem.' "The Navy immediately offered me an alternate position in OCS at Pensacola for Aircraft ground maintenance, but like most young kids, it was Pilot or nothing. So I enlisted in a Missile battery in the Army and spent 10 years there both actice duty and reserves. That's the closest I could get to flying in my military career. "You can now surmise why I was so excited to be offered an opportunity to go with an aviation service and aerospace firm like Triumph Group in 1989 as my last professional career opportunity. I've always been nuts about airplanes. And why I so willingly leveraged/mortgaged everything we owned when we divested from Alco Standard and took the company private in 1993." [from an e-mail to Rae Bordua, April 24, 2002] At the time of the April 1, 1940 U.S. Census, Paul was 1 year old and living with his parents and half-sister Margaret at 620 Gerhard St. in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The family had been living in the same location in April 1935. His father was working as an insurance agent for Metropolitan Life Insurance Company; he worked a 60-hour week, 52 weeks a year in 1939 and earned $2,200. His mother stated that both parents were high school graduates. Margaret was attending school and had completed the 3rd grade. (Regarding location of Stimmler family in 1940 U.S. Census) "I think it was #620 Gerhardt St. in the Roxborough section of Philadelphia. In 1942 my Dad and Mother bought a run down vacant, rat infested big old 3 story mansion at 105 Rochelle Ave. in the Wissahickon section of Philly that they converted ino 5 apartments. We would be found there in the next census released in 1950 I suppose." [from an e-mail to Rae Bordua, April 4, 2012] In 1966 Paul and Gale were living at 234 Glen Gary Drive in Haverford Township, Delaware, Pennsylvania. They were living at 625 W. Ridge Pike in Conshohocken, Montgomery, Pennsylvania in 1995. |
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