Word: shetler
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TIME INC.'s major venture in the field of education, in partnership with General Electric Co., last week took two important steps forward. It acquired a name and a team of top officials. General Learning Corporation's first president is Richard L. Shetler, until now a vice president of G.E. Also elected by the boards of the two parent companies was Roy E. Larsen, chairman of Time Inc.'s Executive Committee, who becomes interim chairman of the new company...
President Shetler is a pioneer in G.E.'s aerospace and defense work, was general manager of the company's Defense Programs Division in Washington and headed G.E.'s "think" factory known as Tempo. Roy Larsen, TIME'S first circulation manager and president of Time Inc. from 1939 to 1960, has long had a working interest in education. He helped organize and became chairman of the National Citizens Commission for the Public Schools, and was a member of the President's Committee for the White House Conference on Education...