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John J. (Jack) Phillips, SB '38, SM '40, MBA '51, Major USAR, Retired, was born in New York City in 1917. He studied Chemical Engineering at MIT and Business Administration at Harvard

Called to active duty in January 1941, he served almost five years as an Ordnance Officer, returning home, after 3 and 1/2 years overseas, on VJ Day.

He has had industrial experience in the petroleum, textile, and electronics industries. He developed one of the first chromatographic instruments for analysis of petroleum products in his own company.

He was involved with the Jupiter, Redstone, and Pershing Missile industrial programs in Office, Chief of Ordnance in the Pentagon, and with the Nike and Anti-Tank Missile programs at the Army Rocket and Guided Missile Agency in Huntsville, Alabama.

At NASA Headquarters he was associated with the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo programs and the Office of Advanced Research and Technology from which he retired.

He is an emeritus member of both the American Chemical Society and Sigma Xi.