EUGENE N. BEESLEY, president, Eli Lilly and Company, was born in 1909 in Thorntown, Indiana, and was graduated from Wabash College and the Indiana University Law School. He joined Eli Lilly and Company in 1929, and in 1953 was elected its fifth president. He is a director of Lilly Endowment, Inc., the Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association, the United Fund of Greater Indianapolis, the American Fletcher National Bank and Trust Company, and the Procter & Gamble Company; a board member of the National Industrial Conference Board; a member of the Business Council, the American Pharmaceutical Association; and a director of United States Rubber Company since 1959.
J. SIMPSON DEAN, president and director of Nemours Corporation, has been a member of the board of directors of United States Rubber Company since 1960. He was born in Rome, Georgia, in 1898 and was graduated from Lawrenceville and from Princeton University in 1921. In 1924 he organized Nemours Corporation, an investment company, the major activity of which has been the production of oil and natural gas. He is also a director and member of the executive committee of the Wilmington Trust Company.
GEORGE P. EDMONDS, born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1905, was graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He became secretary of Bond Crow & Cork Company in 1930, rising to the presidency in 1935. In 1948 he became president of the Wilmington Trust Company; in 1953 he became chairman of the board of that bank, a position which he currently holds. A director of United States Rubber Company since 1944, he is a member of the executive committee. He is a director of Continental Can Company and the Continental American Life Insurance Company, and a member of the Corporation of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
MALCOLM P. FERGUSON, president of the Bendix Corporation, was born in 1896 in Elmira Heights, New York, and was graduated from Syracuse University. In 1919 he joined the Eclipse Machine Company of Elmira — one of the companies that formed the nucleus of Bendix Corporation when it was organized in 1929. In 1938 he became general manager of the Bendix products division. In 1946 he became president of the corporation. A director of United States Rubber Company since 1957, he is also vice chairman and a trustee of the Automotive Safety Foundation; a director of the National Bank of Detroit and the Michigan Bell Telephone Company; and a member of the board of governors of the Providence Hospital in Detroit. He holds honorary degrees from Syracuse and Michigan State Universities.
G. ARNOLD HART, president and chief executive officer of the Bank of Montreal, was born in 1913 in Toronto, Canada, and was educated there. After serving overseas in the Canadian Army during World War II and retiring from the Army in 1945 as a Major and a member of the Order of the British Empire, he joined the Bank of Montreal and became its president and chief executive officer in 1959. On the board of directors of United States Rubber Company since 1961, he is also deputy chairman and a director of the Bank of London & Montreal Limited, a director of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company, Sun Life Assurance Company, Ltd., the Steel Company of Canada, Ltd., and the Canadian Investment Fund, Ltd.