This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: McGregor, Douglass Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hkB.2ACE/5478 Message Board Post: Rockdale Reporter, Thur., 26 Sept 2002 McGregor CHESTERFIELD, SC – Funeral services for Duncan ("Skeet") Douglass McGregor, 72, will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 26, 2002, at St. Paul United Methodist Church in Chesterfield, South Carolina, with Rev. James F. Leppard officiating. Interment will follow at McBee Cemetery. Mr. McGregor died Monday, Sept. 23, at a Chesterfield hospital. He was born in Wadesboro, NoC, the only child of the Duncan Hardy and Sallie Berry Douglass McGregor. A graduate of Chesterfield High School, he received his bachelors in civil engineering from Clemson University in 1952 and his masters in civil engineering from Purdue University. Mr. McGregor was called to active duty as a first lieutenant in the Army Corps of Engineers and served in Panama during the Korean War. He began his career with Alcoa in 1956, serving as staff engineer in Badin, NC, and Port Lavaca. He was transferred to Point Henry, Australia, in 1962 as construction engineer for the Point Henry Smelter & Fabricating Plant and stayed as operating superintendent. In 1965, Mr. McGregor was transferred to Rockdale as a project engineer, then became project manager for a 50 percent plant expansion and continued on as maintenance superintendent for the Smelter and associated facilities, engineering manager, plant manager in 1972, and works manager in 1973. He was transferred to Alcoa’s corporate office in Pittsburgh, PA, in 1977 and was corporate chief engineer for Electrode Operations, assuming technical responsibilities for all international smelting operations. After managing the basic process design for all new smelters built by Alcoa in North, Central and South America, Canada, Europe and Australia, Mr. McGregor was awarded the Chairman’s Award for Technical Excellence in 1990. He was Alcoa’s corporate chief engineer until his retirement in 1992. Mr. McGregor and his wife, Anne, moved back to Chesterfield in 1992 and he continued to provide technical consulting services to 12 major aluminum companies in the U.S., Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Venezuela. He was an active member of many local boards and St. Paul United Methodist Church. Survivors are his wife of 49 years, Anne Harmon McGregor; daughters Sally and husband Lloyd David Rivers of Taylorsville, NC, and Jane McGregor and husband Greg Yulish of Calabasas, CA; also, three grandchildren, Lloyd Douglass and Hilary Jane Rivers, and Matthew McGregor Yulish. Memorials may be made to St. Paul United Methodist Church, 305 W. Main St., Chesterfield, SC 29709 or the American Cancer Society for Chesterfield County Cancer Relay For Life, in care of Kathy Treadaway, PO Box 807, Cheraw, SC 29520.