
RURITAN INVOLVEMENT
Ruritan National
- National President
- National Vice President
- Ruritan National Foundation President
Holland District
- District Governor – 1951
Princess Ann Ruritan Club
- President
COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
- Member of Nimmo United Methodist Church
- Teacher
- Superintendent of the Church Schools
- Scouting Leader
- Active in Red Cross and the Blood Bank
- President of the Virginia Beach Rotary Club
- District Governor of the 277th District of Rotary
- President of the Virginia Chamber of Commerce
- Master of Princess Anne Lodge (NU) 25 A.F. & A.M.
- Charter member of Lynnhaven Lodge (NU) 220, A.F. & A.M.,
- District deputy grandmaster of District (NU) 56,
- President of Virginia Beach Shrine Club
- Potentate of Khedive Temple
- Mid-Atlantic Shrine Association (Vice president and President)
- Member of John Walters Royal Arch Chapter
- Member of Grice Commandery (NU)16 Knights Templar,
- Member of Norfolk Consistory of the Scottish Rite
- Member of Royal Order of Jesters,
- Member of Royal Order of Scotland
- Member of Knight Court of Honor
- Member of 33rd Degree Scottish Rite Mason
- Member of Sons of the American Revolution
LEADERSHIP
Professional Experience
- Director of the Bank of Virginia-Tidewater
- Past president of the Virginia Building Material Association
- Director from Virginia on the National Retail Lumber Dealers Association
- National Advisory and Legislative Committees of the National Lumber Dealers Association
- Member of the Board of Directors of Virginia Beach General Hospital
- Chairman of the Virginia Beach Industrial Authority for 11 years
- Chairman of Rudee Inlet Authority
- Chairman of Virginia Beach Development Council
- Tidewater Development Council
- Commissioner of Virginia State Port Authority for 12 years
. [Source: Virginian-Pilot Obituary]