Malcolm R. Lovell Jr. ’43

Malcolm R. Lovell Jr. ’43, of Washington, D.C.; Oct. 26. After graduating from Harvard Business School, he served as an industrial relations executive for Ford Motor Co. and American Motors Co. He later directed state employment programs for Michigan Gov. George Romney and served as Assistant Secretary of Labor for Manpower under President Nixon. He was president of the Rubber Manufacturers Assoc. in 1981 when President Reagan asked him to be a member of the transition team for the Department of Labor, which led to him becoming Under Secretary of Labor Administration. He was also a guest scholar at the Brookings Institute and a distinguished visiting professor at George Washington Univ., and served as president of the Natural Rubber Shippers Assoc. and the National Planning Assoc., as well as chair of the Tire Industry Safety Council. During World War II he served in the U.S. Navy with an intelligence group in China and received a Secretary of the Navy Letter of Citation and the Hung Hua decoration from the Nationalist Chinese Government. He is survived by his wife, Celia; four daughters; and 11 grandchildren, including Rebecca Tilson ’07.