Frank Shrontz
Assistant Secretary of Defense for Installations and Logistics
In office February 10, 1976 – January 19, 1977
President	Gerald R. Ford
Preceded by	John J. Bennett (Acting)
Succeeded by	position abolished
Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Installations and Logistics
In office 1973–1976
President	Richard Nixon Gerald R. Ford
Preceded by	Lewis E. Turner (acting)[1]
Succeeded by	J. Gordon Knapp[2]
Personal details
Born	Frank Anderson Shrontz (1931-12-14) December 14, 1931 Boise, Idaho, U.S.
Spouse	Harriet A. Houghton (died 2012)[3]
Education	University of Idaho (LLB) Harvard University (MBA)
Occupation	Corporate Executive
Military service
Branch/service	United States Army
Years of service	1954-1956

Frank Anderson Shrontz (born December 14, 1931) is an American corporate executive and former government official. He is the former CEO and chairman of the Boeing Company.

Early life

Born and raised in Boise, Idaho, Shrontz was the son of sporting goods merchant. He graduated from Boise High School in 1949 and the University of Idaho in Moscow in 1954 with a Bachelor of Laws degree.^[4] While at Idaho he served as chapter president of Beta Theta Pi fraternity.^[5] Following a commission and service in the U.S. Army from 1954–1956, he attended the Harvard Business School where he received an MBA in 1958 and then joined Boeing.

Career

Beginning in 1973, Schrontz served in the Nixon and Ford administrations at the Department of Defense, and returned to Boeing in January 1977 as a vice president in charge of contract administration and planning. He later became a division head managing production of 707, 727, and 737 aircraft. During the oil crisis of the 1970's he was a proponent of the mid-range 737 jetliner rather than the longer range and more fuel efficient 757 and 767. This was a successful decision, as stabilizing oil prices and airline deregulation soon led the 737 to become Boeing's top selling airframe.^[6]

He became president of Boeing in 1984, and served as CEO from 1986–1996. He was chairman of the board from 1988 to 1997.^[7]

Schrontz has served on the board of 3M, Boise Cascade Corporation, and Chevron, and as a citizen regent on the Smithsonian Institution's Board of Regents.^[8] He is part of the Seattle Mariners ownership group and is a member on the team's board of directors.^[9]

While serving on the board of directors for Chevron, a new double-hulled supertanker was named in his honor in November 1998.^[10] The South Korean-built ship was renamed the Antares Voyager in 2003 after a change of ownership.^[11][12]

Personal life

Schrontz married Harriet Ann Houghton, who he met at Idaho, in 1954. They had three sons, and were married for 58 years.^[13] Shrontz was inducted into the Junior Achievement U.S. Business Hall of Fame in 2004. Boeing endowed the Frank Schrontz Endowed Chair of Professional Ethics at Seattle University beginning in 1997.^[7] He was awarded the Oxford Cup, Beta Theta Pi's most prestigious award, in 1999.

References

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
• DOD Key Officials History (1947-2014)