One of the State's Most Globally Engaged Citizens Dies

The chairman emeritus of Iowa’s largest engineering firm has died. Richard Stanley joined Muscatine-based Stanley Consultants, the company co-founded by his father, in 1955. He became its president in 1971 and served as its chairman of the board beginning in 1984. He retired as chair emeritus in 2013. He was perhaps better known internationally as leader of the Stanley Foundation. It promotes global citizenship through policy analysis, conferences and outreach efforts. Former Republican Congressman Jim Leach says Stanley “recognized as deeply as any individual on the planet that no country is an island.” Richard Stanley died after a short illness last Friday. He was 85 years old.