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University Park, Pa.—James ''Lee'' Everett
III, a Penn State mechanical engineering alumnus
and a former director of the Lockheed Martin Corporation,
has designated $500,000 from the Lockheed Martin Directors
Charitable Award Fund to endow a new professorship
in the Department of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering.
The endowment will be named the ''J. 'Lee' Everett
Professorship in Engineering'' and will be used to
support a mechanical and nuclear engineering faculty
member’s efforts in teaching, research and service.
''Penn State is in my heart,'' explained Everett.
''I graduated from there, taught there and have witnessed
the development and growth of its nuclear engineering
program and the Breazeale Reactor. I maintain communication
with many of the remarkable faculty in the department.
I am pleased that nuclear engineering is on the upswing,
and privileged to direct this endowment to a program
about which I am passionate.''
Everett has made numerous contributions to the field
of nuclear engineering. After Penn State, he went on
to teach at Drexel University in Philadelphia, where
he set up its first fluid flow course. He then began
as a junior engineer at Philadelphia Electric Co.,
working his way up to chairman and CEO prior to retirement.
Early in his career, Everett was among the first engineers
to get involved in nuclear energy, and helped develop
the Enrico Ferme I, a sodium-cooled fast breeder reactor
on Lake Erie. He also guided Philadelphia Electric's
involvement in nuclear power, and was an integral part
of the research, development, planning, maintenance
and operation of numerous other plants including a
high-temperature, helium-cooled plant (Peach Bottom
I) and boiling-water reactors (Peach Bottoms II and
III). Everett said these programs ''put Philadelphia
Electric on the nuclear map.''
While serving as chief executive officer in the mid-1980s,
Everett was also instrumental in winning a $300,000
grant from Philadelphia Electric benefiting the control
and safety system upgrade project at Penn State's Breazeale
Reactor.
The endowment is a result of his membership on the
Lockheed Martin board of directors. He designated that
the $1 million grant be divided between Penn State
and the Humane Society of Vero Beach, Fla., where his
wife of almost 60 years, the former Marjorie Scherf,
also a Penn State alumnus, has been an active volunteer
and supporter for two decades.
Everett received his B.S. in 1948 and his M.S. in
1949.
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