JOHN W. HANES
John W. Hanes, former Under-Secretary of the
United States Treasury, is chairman of the finance
committee and vice president for finance and a di
rector of Olin Mathieson Chemical Corporation.
He is the former financial vice president, director
and member of the Executive Committee of Olin
Industries, Inc.
Mr. Hanes became a partner of Charles D. Bar
ney and Company in 1922 and was a senior part
ner from 1929 through 1937.
On January 1, 1938, he was appointed a com
missioner of the Securities and Exchange Com
mission. Appointed Assistant- Secretary of the
United States Treasury on July 1 of the same
year, he was named Under-Secretary of the Treas
ury, November 1, 1938, in which position he
served until his resignation January 1, 1940.
Mr. Hanes has been director and chairman of
the Executive Committee of the United States
Lines Company. He is a director of Johns-Manville
Corporation, Bankers Trust Company of New
York, Mutual Life Insurance Company, P. H.
Hanes Knitting Company and Chairman of the
Tax Foundation of the Olin Oil and Gas Corpor
ation.
A graduate of Yale University, Mr. Hanes holds
an L.L.D. from Duke University and D.C.S. from
New York University.
J. C. LEPPART
John C. Leppart, executive vice-president and
a director of the company, joined Mathieson
Chemical Corporation in 1948 as a vice-president.
He was appointed executive vice-president in July
of that year and first vice-president in January,
1954. Before coming to Mathieson, Mr. Leppart
was vice-president of Prior Chemical Corporation,
New York, and previous to that he occupied ex
ecutive positions with the Southern Alkali Corpor
ation, Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company, and Solvay
Process Company. During World War II he
served as chief, Chlorine-Alkali Section, and assist
ant chief. Inorganic Chemicals Division, of the
War Production Board. He is a director of the
National Fertilizer Association.
S. de J. OSBORNE
Stanley de J. Osborne, executive vice president
of the new corporation, was financial vice presi
dent of Mathieson Chemical Corporation. Before
joining Mathieson in 1950, he was vice president
of Eastern Airlines, Inc., and from 1929 to 1943
was associated with Atlantic Coast Fisheries Co.,
where he successively held the positions of treas
urer, secretary and vice president. During World
War II he served as special assistant to the Rubber
Director in Washington. Mr. Osborne is a di
rector of the American Machine and Foundry Co.,
and a governor of the Boys Athletic League, New
York City.