HAROLD H. HELM, chairman, Chemical Bank New York Trust Company, was born in Auburn, Kentucky, in 1900; he was graduated from Princeton University. Joining the Chemical Bank in 1920, he became president in 1947, and chairman in 1956. A member of the board of United States Rubber Company since 1957, he is also a director of Associated Dry Goods Corporation, Champion Papers, Inc., the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States, the Home Insurance Company, the Ralston Purina Company, Western Electric Company, F. W. Woolworth Company, the Home Indemnity Company and Lord & Taylor. He is chairman of the executive committee of the trustees of Princeton University and chairman of the National Industrial Conference Board.
H. E. HUMPHREYS, JR., chairman since 1951 and former president of United States Rubber Company, was born in Philadelphia in 1900 and educated at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He joined U. S. Rubber in 1935 as a vice president and a director. He is a director of the Rubber Manufacturers Association, Great American Insurance Company and Terminal Warehouses, Ltd. He is chairman of the National Highway Users Conference; a senior board member of the National Industrial Conference Board; a life trustee of the University of Pennsylvania; a trustee of the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York; a member of the advisory committee, Chemical Bank New York Trust Company; and a past president of the Economic Club of New York.
JAMES P. LEWIS, a director of United States Rubber Company since 1962, was born in 1917 in Beaver Falls, New York, and graduated from Williams College. President of Latex Fiber Industries, Inc., Beaver Falls, New York, he is also president and a director of The Beaver River Power Corporation and The J. P. Lewis Company. He is a member of the executive committee of Specialty Paper and Board Affiliates; a member of the board of trustees of Clarkson College of Technology and of Forestry; a director of Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation, St. Regis Paper Company and General Telephone Company of Upstate New York; and a vice president and director of Smith Lee Company, Oneida, New York.
JOHN W. McGOVERN, former president of United States Rubber Company, was born in 1895 in Philadelphia. After attending Temple College he joined the company as an accountant in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1920. After becoming general manager of the munitions division in 1941 and of the tire division in 1943, he was elected a vice president in 1945 and a director in 1951. In 1957 he was elected president of the company. He retired as president in 1960 but continues to serve as a director. He is a director of Irving Trust Company, was formerly president and chairman of the National Association of Manufacturers, and still serves the latter organization as a member of the board of directors and chairman of the finance committee.
ROBERT J. McKIM, was born in Kansas City, Missouri, in 1895 and attended Tulane University. President of Stewart Dry Goods Company, Louisville, Kentucky, from 1930 to 1943, he was elected president of Associated Dry Goods Corporation in 1943 and is now chairman of the board of that company. A director of United States Rubber Company since 1961, he is also a director of Lord & Taylor and Chemical Bank New York Trust Company, and a trustee of the Savings Bank. He is a member of the advisory council of the Columbia University Graduate School of Business.