THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
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DATE: Wednesday, August 3, 1994 TAG: 9408030342
SECTION: LOCAL PAGE: B5 EDITION: FINAL
DATELINE: SCARSDALE, N.Y. LENGTH: Short : 48 lines
Hartselle DeBurney ``Sox'' Kinsey, a retired vice president of the Union Carbide Corp. who contributed to the Manhattan Project, died July 9 at his Scarsdale, N.Y., home. He was 92.
Mr. Kinsey played a major role in the Manhattan Project in which the atomic bomb was developed during World War II. He served as plant manager and general superintendent of the gaseous diffusion plant in Oak Ridge, Tenn., that produced the major component for the bomb. His suggestions for simplifying procedures are credited with speeding production. He moved to New York after the war to head Union Carbide divisions and later was vice president of the company. After retiring in 1966, he served as a consultant with the International Executive Service Corps, where his duties included being a pollution control consultant. He served assignments in Taiwan and Iran.
Mr. Kinsey was born September 8, 1901, in Roanoke, Va., to Thomas Alexander and Josephine Jamison Kinsey. He graduated from Roanoke College, received a master's degree in chemical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and was awarded an honorary doctorate from Roanoke College. He married Catharine Koontz on September 22, 1926, in Clendenin, W. Va. She died in 1984.
Long active in Scarsdale affairs during his 48-year residency, he was a member of the board of governors of the Town Club and was a past village trustee. He also was a member and past chairman of the board of School District 2. In addition to community activities, he was a trustee of Roanoke College for 25 years and also was a member of the Scarsdale Congregational Church, where he served on the board of trustees. Mr. Kinsey was a life member of the American Chemical Society and belonged to the Society of the Chemical Industry and the Chemists Club of New York. He also was a member of the Sigma Chi fraternity, MIT Alumni Association, Sons of the American Revolution, Old Guard of White Plains, and the Scarsdale Golf Club.
He is survived by four daughters, JoAnn Storey of Easton, Md., Louise Clark of Scarsdale, N.Y., Carol Paiste of South Salem, N.Y., and Melissa Mathews of Norfolk, Va.; 12 grandchildren; and 10 great-grandchildren. Three brothers and four sisters died earlier.
A memorial service will be held Saturday, August 6, in Clendenin, W. Va. Family and friends are making donations to Roanoke College, Salem, Va. 24153, where a fund has been established in his name.
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