Word: funston
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...search for a successor to New York Stock Exchange President Keith Funston took a full seven months. This week, unless there is a last-minute change of mind, the Big Board will announce that it has found the man for the $125,000-a-year post. He is Robert W. Haack, 50, who as head of the National Association of Securities Dealers has been policeman of the nation's over-the-counter securities market for the past three years...
...president of the New York Stock Exchange for 15 years, G. Keith Funston always insisted that Big Board corporations promptly report significant changes in management. Living up to the letter of that rule last week was the Olin Mathieson Chemical Corp., whose messengers appeared promptly and simultaneously at wire services, publications and TV networks to pass the word that the company's new chairman would be none other than G. Keith Funston, 56, who is retiring from the Exchange when his present contract runs out in September...
...likely to tax Funston's energies. His duties will include presiding over meetings and, as Funston expressed it, "speaking out on general economic matters." He will be free to sit on other boards where there is no conflict of interest with a broadening company, which deals in 4,500 products, from shotguns to toothbrushes. The new chairman will also be free to pursue such pastimes as archaeology and golf as well as his post of senior warden at Christ Church (Episcopal) in Greenwich, Conn...
...speech before the American Football Coaches Association in Hous ton, the New York Stock Exchange's retiring president, Keith Funston, 56. did a bit of recruiting for the bulls and the bears. "The values so essential to success on the gridiron are highly prized in business," Funston evangelized, inviting the nation's college-football players to try out for slots in the securities business. Like ideal businessmen, he said, football players are possessed of self-confidence, imagination, leadership and competitive spirit. Funston had better watch out. As a rule, the lads are also big and mean and pretty...
...Keith Funston, President, New York Stock Exchange...