Contact: Phil Hearn
STARKVILLE, Miss.--E.J. "Ted" Mooney, former chairman and chief executive officer of Nalco Chemical Co., will be the featured speaker Tuesday [March 1] for the 2005 Hunter Henry Lectureship in Chemical Engineering at Mississippi State.
Sponsored by the university's Dave C. Swalm School of Chemical Engineering, the fourth annual public program begins at in the school's George Eastman Auditorium.
The lectureship honors Henry, a Canton native, 1950 MSU chemical engineering graduate and major university benefactor.
Mooney served as chairman and chief executive officer of Nalco from 1994 until his retirement in 2000. His association began in 1969 as corporate attorney for a subsidiary company and continued in various executive roles until his election to the top position for the Naperville, Ill.-based manufacturer and marketer of specialty chemicals for water and industrial process treatment.
Since retiring, Mooney has remained active in corporate activities and he currently serves on a number of governing boards. He holds chemical engineering and law degrees from the University of Texas. He also is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan Senior Executive Program.
Previous Henry Lectureship speakers have included Michael D. Parker, president and CEO of The Dow Chemical Co.; Bobby S. Shackouls, board chair, president and CEO of Burlington Resources Inc.; and Enrique J. Sosa, retired president of BP-Amoco Chemicals.
For more information on the program, contact Sherre Denson at (662) 325-8470 or sherre@che.msstate.edu.