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Printer Friendly VersionMcBee, Flawn re-elected to SwRI Board
Pair to serve Board through fiscal year 1997
San Antonio -- November 25, 1996 -- The re-election of Frank W. McBee of Austin to a second term as chairman of the board of directors of Southwest Research Institute® (SwRI®) was announced today.
McBee, one of the founders of Austin's Tracor, Inc., and a former chairman and president of that organization, served as chairman of SwRI's board for the last year. He is also currently chairman of the board of Research Applications, Inc. McBee became an SwRI trustee in 1982, and joined the board in 1986. Prior to his term as chairman of the SwRI board, he served two terms as vice chairman.
Dr. Peter T. Flawn, president emeritus of the board of regents of the University of Texas at Austin (UT-Austin) and a retired president of both UT-Austin and the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA), was elected to a second term as vice chairman of the SwRI board of directors. Flawn became a trustee of SwRI in 1973, and a board member in 1989.
In other actions at today's meeting, the chairman announced that Martin Goland was re-elected president of the Institute. Goland has been president of SwRI since 1959.
Also, eight prominent Texas businessmen, one retired distinguished military officer, and a member of the Mexican foreign diplomat service were elected trustees of SwRI. They are: Stephen Butt, vice president of Own Brand and Grocery Merchandising, HEB Grocery Company, San Antonio; Trent Campbell Jr., president of Campbell Industrial Sales, Inc., Houston; Larry Everett, president of Southern Gas Association, Dallas; Jack Maguire, Fredericksburg, Texas; Lieutenant General Glynn C. Mallory Jr., United States Army (ret.), San Marcos, Texas; Joe F. Moore, partner, Bonner & Moore Associates, Houston; Chester N. Posey, chairman of the board of the Orbix Corporation, Clifton, Texas; Ronald Robinson, president, Technology Division, Texaco, Inc., Houston; The Honorable Carlos M. Sada, consul general of Mexico, San Antonio; and former mayor of San Antonio Nelson Wolff, president, Sun Harvest Farms, San Antonio.
McBee holds bachelor's and master's degrees in mechanical engineering from UT-Austin and an honorary doctorate from St. Edward's University in Austin. He helped found Tracor in 1955, a company that grew from five employees to some 11,000 worldwide. He retired as chairman of the board in January 1988 shortly after Tracor was bought by Westmark Systems, Inc.
McBee is a director of the Radian Corporation, director of MCorp-Dallas, a member of the National Society of Professional Engineers, a member of the National Academy of Engineering, and a member of Tau Beta Pi, Sigma Xi, and Pi Tau Sigma.
Flawn holds a bachelor's degree in geology from Oberlin College (Ohio) and a doctorate in geology from Yale University. He was appointed executive vice president of UT-Austin in 1972. In 1973, Flawn was named president of UTSA. He became president of UT-Austin in 1979.
Flawn is a director of Global Marine, Inc., Harte-Hanks
Communications, Inc., Input/Output, Inc., Radian Corporation, Tenneco, Inc., and Texas
Commerce Bank-Austin. He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1974 and is
a member of the Geological Society of America, the American Geological Institute, and the
American Association of Petroleum Geologists.
For more information about SwRI officer elections, contact Deborah J. Deffenbaugh, Communications Department, Southwest Research Institute, P.O. Drawer 28510, San Antonio, Texas 78228-0510, Phone (210) 522-2046, Fax (210) 522-3547.
