Donald Sherman Beattie

Other Events and Attributes:

• Military Service: Abt 1942; World War II - US Army 2nd Lt. - Pacific Theater

Notes:

Washington Post, Saturday, April 21, 1990, page B4.
Donald S. Beattie, 68, Dies; Was Railway Labor Leader
Donald Sherman Beattie, 68, a railway labor leader who had been director of governmental affairs for the Railway Labor Executives Association, died of pulmonary fibrosis April 19 at Mount Vernon Hospital. Mr. Beattie, who lived in Alexandria, was born in Canisteo, N.Y. He served in the Army Corps of Engineers during World War II, then graduated from Cornell University. He began his career in the labor movement in Cleveland, where he was director of research for the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers from 1951 to 1962. From 1960 to 1962, he also served as chairman of the labor union research committee of the Presidental Railroad Commission. In 1962 he moved to Washington and began working for the Railway Labor Executives Association as excutive secretary teasurer. From 1970 to 1975, Mr. Beattie as executive secretary of the Congress of Railway Unions, then from 1975 until he retired in 1988 he was director of the govermental affairs for Railway Labor Executive Assocation. He had served on the executive board and management committee of the International Transport Workers Federation and on the US National Committee of the Pan American Railway Congress. Most recently he was founder and director of the Super Magnetic Levitation Coalition an organization working on plans for higher speed trains running on the principle of magnetic levitation. He was a memeber of the Brotherood of Locomotive Engineers, the United Transporation Union and the Masons. Surviors include his wife Virginia Beattie; three sons James Milton Beattie, Thomas Michael Beattie, and Donald Sherman Beattie Jr., all of Alexandria, and a grandson.


Donald's time (papers) while in Washington are housed at the Library at Cornell University. (TMB-2009)

Donald married Virginia Maquire about 1955. Virginia was born on 04 Sep 1922 in Pennsylvania; died on 06 Mar 2000 in Alexandria, Virginia; was buried in Hillside Cemetery, Canisteo, Steuben County, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Living. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]