DOOLEY, Channing Rice - Montgomery InGenWeb Project

C.R. Dooley dead; industry expert; President of foundation for training within plants had aided war production Summit, NJ, June 25. Channing R. Dooley, an expert on industrial training and president of the Training within Industry Foundation, died today of a heart attack in Overlook Hospital. His age was 78. He lived at 41 Oakland Place. Mr. Dooley established the foundation in 1946 as a research and service organization, which grew out of his work as director of Training Within Industry during World War II. He was appointed to the latter post by the National Defense Advisory Commission in 1940 and continued under the War Manpower Commission. Training methods that he developed for use within the plants helped provide defense factories and arsenals with the workers urgently needed in the war effort. The International Labor Office named him as a consultant on ways of instructing factory operators in member nations in modern efficiency methods, a mission he carried out in 1948, 1949, and 1950. Mr. Dooley was the first director of personnel and training for Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company in Pittsburgh, where he had been a design engineer since shortly after his graduation from Purdue University as an electrical engineer. During World War I, he was called on by the War Department to establish and direct the system of technical training in military camps. After the war he became head of training and personnel for the Standard Oil Company (N.J.), then personnel manager of Standard Oil Company of New York from 1929 to 1932 After the latter's merger with Vacuum Oil Company he was manager of industrial relations until World War II. In 1944 he and Walter Dietz, associate director of Training Within Industry, received the first annual award in the field of human relations of the Society for the Advancement of Management. He served on the board of trustees of the Foremanship Foundation and on the executive committee of Junior Achievement. He was a member of the Federal Committee on Apprenticeship from 1934 to 1946. He belonged to the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, the American Society for Engineering Education, the American Society for the Advancement of Management and the Industrial Relations Research Association. He was also a member of City Club and Downtown Athletic Club of New York. Surviving are his widow, Inez; a son, David L., of Oklahoma City; a daughter, Mrs. George Schaefer of Philadelphia; a sister, five grandchildren and one great-grandchild.

Dooley, Channing Rice of Summit NJ [died] on June 25, 1956, husband of Inez Jones Dooley, father of Phyllis Dooley Schaefer, M.D. of Philadelphia, and David L. Dooley of Oklahoma City, OK and brother of Mrs. Elizabeth Dooley Burton of Rockville, IN; surviving also are five grandchildren and one great grandson. The service will be held at the Central Presbyterian Church, Summit, NJ, on Wednesday afternoon, June 27, at 3 o'clock. The family suggests that in place of flowers, contributions be sent to Purdue University Alumni Scholarship Foundation, Lafayette, IN. For further details contact Burroughs & Kohr, Summit, NJ.