Frederick Joseph Rauscher, Sr.
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Frederick Joseph Rauscher, Sr. (1911-1999).
During a 28 year career with the Union Carbide Chemical Co. beginning in 1934, Fred Rauscher is credited with introducing marketing principals and a "Share of the Market" concept to the chemical industry. He later moved to the Hoffman-Taff Chemical Co., and the Houston Chemical Co. bringing pest control and aviation-industrial products to the market.
He finished a distinguished marketing career in a series of consulting engagements with such companies as Rockwell International, the Williams Cos., and Koch Industries.
Mr. Rauscher was born in 1911 in Ridgeway, Pennsylvania, graduated from high school in Correy, Pennsylvania. He was a Depression era honors graduate in Chemistry from the University of Michigan.
He was married to the former Josephine McGrevey of Des Moines, IA, and together they had 7 children. As of December 2005, he is survived by his widow and 6 of their 7 children.