Word: mockler
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Corporation also chose a new member, Richard A. Smith, age 67, to replace the late Gilette CEO Colman M. Mockler '52. Two other Corporation members, Robert G. Stone Jr. '45 and Charles P. Slichter '45, are approaching 70, the age at which members traditionally step down...
Some say Smith is similar to the person whose seat he will fill on the corporation. The late Colman M. Mockler Jr. '52, who chaired the Gillette Corporation, was also a local resident, skilled businessperson and a graduate of Harvard College. Mockler was seen by many as a mediator who tried to find compromises when members of the Corporation disagreed...
Smith, like Mockler, is a local. Corporation Member Judith R. Hope says the Corporation was looking for someone who was "if possible, from the Boston area." And University Marshal Richard Hunt says one of Smith's assets is that he is "very prominently known in the Harvard-New England area...
Still, Hope says the search committee was not looking for an exact duplicate of Mockler...
...world of business, he's done very well," Hiatt says, comparing Smith's expertise in that area to Mockler's, and mentioning Smith's skill in strategically diversifying General Cinema Corporation...