1988

Robert Powell

Texas

1940 - 43 - Correspondence clerk and examiner, U.S. Civil Service Commission, Washington, DC.

1944 - Purchasing officer, FAA headquarters, Fort Worth, Texas.

1944 - 51 - Aircraft communicator, FAA.

1951 - 55 - Chief, Office Service Section, FAA headquarters.

1955 - 56 - Vice president, Catalog Publishing Co., Dallas, Texas.

1958 - 70 - Owned and operated a small print shop while employed full-time with the FAA.

1956 - 72 - Air traffic controller, Fort Worth, Texas. Served as assistant chief from 1958 until retirement in 1972.

1972 - As a freelance writer for The Professional Man's Hairstylist magazine, he wrote and published Antique Shaving Mugs of the United States.

1978 - Wrote and published a book, Occupational and Fraternal Shaving Mugs in the United States.

1989 - Wrote his third book, titled Great American Barber Chairs and Barbering Collectibles.

1988 - Inducted into the Barber Hall of Fame