Elmer William Stanley
Elmer William Stanley ’36, May 8, 1999, in Washington. Elmer received a bachelor’s degree from Reed in general literature. He worked as a personnel manager for a construction company under contract to the Arabian American Oil Company in Saudi Arabia, and as supervisor of employment for Boeing Aircraft Company in Seattle, Washington. Beginning in 1950, he was executive secretary for the Washington State School Directors’ Association, and was appointed president of the national organization of executive secretaries of state school board associations in 1965. He did graduate studies at the University of Washington. Elmer was married and the father of three children.