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Olive Ann Beech

American businesswoman
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Also known as: Olive Ann Mellor
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Category: History & Society
Née:
Olive Ann Mellor
Born:
September 25, 1903, Waverly, Kansas, U.S.
Died:
July 6, 1993, Wichita, Kansas (aged 89)
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Olive Ann Beech (born September 25, 1903, Waverly, Kansas, U.S.—died July 6, 1993, Wichita, Kansas) American business executive who served first as secretary-treasurer (1932–50) and then as president (1950–68) and chairman of the board (1950–82) of Beech Aircraft Corporation, a major manufacturer of business and military airplanes founded by her and her husband, Walter H. Beech. She was the first woman to lead a Fortune 500 company. Olive Ann Mellor studied bookkeeping and stenography at a secretarial and business school in Wichita, Kansas, and then worked as a bookkeeper for an electrical supply and contracting firm in nearby Augusta. In ...(100 of 704 words)

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