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WARREN G. SCHLINGER
WARREN G. SCHLINGER
Pages 270-275
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William cofounded a small, two-person local delivery service in the Los Angeles area that, through various mergers and acquisitions, became part of United Parcel Service (UPS) , for which he became West Coast vice president.
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, in both chemical and mechanical engineering. The institute's PhD program in chemical engineering was new after World War II, and he was its third degree recipient.
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Although initially intended as a stay of only a few years, it became his professional career and, with his overall abilities and intellectual qualities, he rapidly assumed successive technical leadership positions at the laboratory, from supervisor of research to laboratory manager to laboratory director. In the early 1980s he concluded that his management roles cut too much into his time for technical activities, and scaled back his responsibilities to be associate director for gasification.
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He was also cofounder, with Robert van den Bosch, of the field of biological control, whereby pest management is accomplished through the use of predators rather than chemical substances. Warren's father was often paid in UPS stock, and as the company enlarged and matured after World War II the stock grew manyfold in value.
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Warren and Katie are survived by Norman and Sarah, five grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren.
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