MINI-BIOGRAPHY OF
JACOB STANLEY "STAN FISHEL
Stan Fishel was born 3 March 1920, White/Male,
Winston-Salem, North Carolina to Bernard Francis and Beatrice Wall Fishel,
an only child. He was baptized while an infant by Dr. Edmund Schwarze,
Calvary Moravian Church, Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
EDUCATION
Attended - Winston-Salem Public Schools.
Graduated - R J Reynolds High School
1938
Attended - Tennessee Military Institute
School of Business Administration 1939-1940
Attended - North Carolina State
University, 1946-1950 B Arch Engr
FAMILY
Married to Shirley Allen May, 16 April
1943
One son: William Stanley Fishel,
born 10 November 1946
One daughter: Susan Wall Fishel
Owens, born 11 August 1949
One grandson: James Stanley Owens,
born 18 July 1979
CAREER
1940 -1942 Comptroller, Fishel Brothers,
Winston-Salem, North Carolina
1942 -1943 Aviation Cadet, Pilot Class
43-D, US Army Air Force
Pre-flight - Kelly Field, Texas
Primary - Coleman, Texas
Basic - Goodfellow Field, Texas
Advanced - Lubbock, Texas
Graduated - 20 April 1943, commissioned
Second Lieutenant.
Assigned - Troop Carrier Command
C-47 Pilot training, Bergstrom Field,
Austin, Texas
Tactical training, Grantham Air Force
Base, Grantham, Mississippi
Assigned - 49th TC Squadron, 313th TC
Group, Erice, Sicily
Ferried new C-47 type aircraft from Fort
Wayne, Indiana, to Sicily via Greenland, Iceland, Scotland, England, Casablanca,
Algiers and Tunis
Detached to MATS to provide freight and
passenger service across North Africa, Sicily and southern Italy
1944 - 313th TC Group moved to Folkingham,
England, in March
Operation "Market Garden" 17 September
Dropped troops near Nimjegan, Holland
Ditched disabled C-47 aircraft in Scheldt
Estuary
Captured by German troops
Detained at Stalag Luft 1 near Barth,
Germany
1945 - Freed by Russian troop o/a 01 May
Returned to USA aboard SS Excelsior to
Hampton Rhodes. Fort Patrick Henry
Discharged Kelly Field, 31 December,
rank - Captain
1946 -1950 Comptroller, Connell Building
Corporation, Raleigh, North Carolina
1950 -1960 Employed as Architect by William
H. Deitrick, FAIA, Raleigh, North Carolina
1960 -1963 Partner, Guy E Crampton and
Associates, Raleigh, North Carolina
1967 - President, Raleigh Section, North
Carolina Chapter, American Institute of Architects
1963 -1988 Partner, Fishel and Taylor,
Architects, Raleigh, North Carolina -NAVFAC was a major client
1973 - President, Raleigh-Durham Chapter,
Construction Specifications Institute
1989 -1990 Consultant to Horace D Taylor,
Architect -- Retired 31 May 1990
CIVIC AFFAIRS
1956 - Present Raleigh Kiwanis Club,
President, 1966
1956 -1970 Raleigh Toastmasters Club,
President 1960/61
1960 -1975 Board of Directors, Wake County
Boys' Club, President, 1973-74
1966 - President, Raleigh Civic Council
1971 -1977 Board of Directors, Cerebral
Palsy Rehabilitation Center, President, 1976
1977 -1980 Member Board of Directors,
MacGregor Downs Homeowners Assoc., President, 1977
1979 -1995 Member Architectural Committee,
MacGregor Downs Homeowners Assoc
1991 -1999 Deliver Meals on Wheels each
Wednesday
CHURCH AFFAIRS
1920 -1952 Member Calvary Moravian Church,
Winston-Salem, North Carolina
1952 - Present Charter member, Raleigh
Moravian Church, Raleigh, North Carolina
Board of Elders Long Range Planning Committee
Sacristan Building Committee
Adult Sunday School Teacher
Sunday School Superintendent
HOBBIES
Music- Played clarinet and saxophone during
youth and very limited ability at the piano. Enjoy listening to sound
reproduction system.
Fishing - Enjoyed extensive salt
water fishing until golf entered the picture.
Golf - Participated extensively until
about 1995.
Bowling - Currently bowl three league
series (three games) per week.
Travel - Visited Europe and Near East
about ten times (since WWII). Driven up and down and across the USA
and
Canada countless times. Attended christening of Aircraft Carrier
JFK 1969, Captain Earl P. Earl P. Yates,
prospective commander
Exercise - Walk one mile, at about 4 miles
per hour regularly. Ride stationary bike for 20 minutes on occasion.
See bowling above.
Computer - Became a computer-geek after
golf and retirement
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