Bio: Stockwell, Richard E. (V-Pres Avco - 1974)

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Surnames: Stockwell

----Source: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark Co., WI) 10/17/1974

Stockwell, Richard E. (Vice President Avco Corporation -1974)

Richard E. Stockwell, a native of Neillsville, and a son of Mrs. Ella S. Stockwell, has been named vice-president, products and research, a group of Avco Corporation.

Stockwell, 57, has been an Avco employee for more than 16 years. Products and research in the diversified company employs about 15,000 people, and has an annual sales volume of more than $500 million. Included are Avco’s Aerostructures division at Nashville, Tn.; New Idea Farm Equipment Division at Coldwater, Oh.; Lycoming Aircraft Engine divisions at Stratford, Conn, (jet engines), and Williamsport, Pa. (piston engines); Everett Research Laboratory at Everett, Mass.; International Services Division at Cincinnati, Oh.; Precision Products Division at Richmond, Ind.; Systems Division at Wilmington, Mass.; Electronics Operation at Huntsville, Ala.; and Tulsa operation at Tulsa, Ok.

For the last six years, Stockwell has been vice president of the commercial, and industrial products group of Avco corporation, which has been absorbed into the new and enlarged organization of which he is a part.

Stockwell is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin, the University of Minnesota, and was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University. He has held positions in radio as news editor and broadcaster, as editorial writer on the Minneapolis Star, and as editor of several aviation, and other magazines in New York City, and Washington, D.C. In addition, he has been on the staffs of other companies as Monsanto Chemical Co. in St. Louis, and General Electric in Cincinnati.