Frank Anderson Shrontz is a former CEO

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 and chairman of the Boeing Company

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The son of a sporting goods merchant, Shrontz graduated from Boise High School

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 in 1949 and the University of Idaho

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 in 1954 with a Bachelor of Laws

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 degree, where he was a member of the Beta Theta Pi

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 fraternity

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. Following a commission and service in the U.S. Army

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 from 1954-56, he attended the Harvard Business School

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 where he received an MBA in 1958 and then joined Boeing.

Beginning in 1973, he served in the Nixon

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 & Ford

Gerald Ford

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 administrations at the Department of Defense

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, and returned to Boeing in January 1977 as a vice president. He served as CEO from 1986-96, and stepped down as chairman in 1997.

While serving on the board of directors for Chevron

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, a new double-hulled supertanker was named in his honor in November 1998.
The South Korea

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n-built ship was renamed the "Antares Voyager" in 2003.

Shrontz was inducted into the Junior Achievement

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 U.S. Business Hall of Fame in 2004.

Shrontz is part of the Seattle Mariners

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ownership group and is a member on the team's board of directors.

External links

• Boeing.com - Frank Shrontz
• UI Alumni Assoc. Hall of Fame - Frank Shrontz - inducted 1986
• Boise High School Hall of Fame - Frank Shrontz
• Beta Theta Pi.org - Frank A. Shrontz
• Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center - Frank Shrontz