Temple sloan iii biography of donald

Automotive equipment executive

O. Temple Sloan, American Automotive equipment executive. Recipient Automotive Education Republican award Boy Scouts American, also District awardof merit Distinguished Eagle awrd Boy Scouts American; Distinguished Svc. citation Automotive Hall of Fame, 1997.

Background

Sloan, O. Temple was born on February 21, 1939 in Sanford, North Carolina, United States. Son of Orris Temple and Thelma (Hamilton) Sloan.

Education

Bachelor in Business Administration, Duke U., 1961.

Career

Founder, president, General Parts Inc., Raleigh, North Carolina, since 1961; now chairman, General Parts Inc., Raleigh. Chairman, Board Of Directors Highwoods Properties Inc., Raleigh. Board directors Southern Equipment Company, Raleigh, CARQUEST Corporation, Denver, Al Smith Buick Inc., NationsBank Corporation, Charlotte.

Achievements

• O. Temple Sloan has been listed as a noteworthy Automotive equipment executive by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Trustee Boys & Girls Homes North Carolina, Lake Waccamaw, since 1973, Glenaire Retirement Center, Raleigh, since 1985. Advisory board Salvation Army, Raleigh, 1973-1987, chairman, 1976-1977. Executive Board, vice president, treasurer Occoneechee council Boy Scouts American, since 1967.

Board visitors Peace College, Raleigh, 1985-1987, trustee, since 1987, vice chairman. Trustee St. Andrew's Presbyterian College, since 1990. Board directors Rex Hospital Foundation, 1989-1990.

Elder Presbyterian Church. Member Automotive Warehouse Distbrs. Association Inc. (director since 1969, chairman 1976-1977, scholarship award 1977, Automotive Man of Year award 1989), The Fifty Group (board directors 1983-1988, president 1986-1987), Greater Raleigh Chamber of Commerce (board directors 1989-1991).

Interests

• Avocations: fishing, hunting, ranching.

Connections

Married Carol Carson. Children: C. Carson Henline, O. Temple Sloan III, Mark H. Sloan.

Father:

Orris Temple Sloan

Mother:

Thelma (Hamilton) Sloan

Spouse:

Carol Carson

child:

O. Temple Sloan III Sloan

child:

Mark H. Sloan

child:

C. Carson Henline Sloan