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Ruben F. Mettler
Ruben F. Mettler
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While doing chores on the farm where he grew up with nine siblings, he first experienced the "hierarchy of duties" in a complex organization, which probably planted the seeds of his future CEO managerial style. "I don't know that a large family directly translates into being comfortable in a corporate setting," he once told a journalist, "but there is no question that a large family is not a likely place to find a highly egocentric person." A bright, ambitious student who pushed himself to excel, Rube won a scholarship to Stanford and began his undergraduate career there in 1941, intending to study law.
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Junior Chamber of Commerce's Ten Outstanding Young Men; in 1964, the Engineering Societies of Southern California elected him Engineer of the Year; and, in 1965, he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering. In 1966, Caltech named him one of 23 alumni to receive the first Distinguished Alumni awards, the institution's highest honor.
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As chairman of the United Negro College Fund, he was credited with raising $110 million in two years. In recognition of his humanitarian efforts, he received the National Human Relations Award of the National Conference of Christians and Jews in 1979 and the Roy Wilkins Memorial Award in 1981 from the L.A.
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He is greatly missed. Rube is survived by his wife, Donna, and two sons, Matthew and Daniel, a grandson Jeffrey, two sisters Elsie and Irene, and many nephews and nieces.
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