By ANN Senior Editor Pete Combs
Suddenly jobless at 68, ousted from the presidency of the
world's largest aerospace company by something as deeply personal
as a sex scandal and staring divorce in the face, any other man in
Harry Stonecipher's position might be trying to cope with the end
of his world.
As Harry Stonecipher spoke strongly and confidently to a Naples,
FL, civic organization on Friday, his wife, 69-year old Joan
Stonecipher, was filing for divorce in Chicago -- less than a week
after Stonecipher was ousted from the CEO position at Boeing in the
wake of a scandalous sexual liaison with a Boeing vice
president.
Life goes on at Boeing, as it has in the wake of scandal after
costly scandal, after President and CEO Harry Stonecipher was
ousted last weekend because of his admitted affair with 48-year old
Debra Peabody, a company vice president based in the nation's
capital.
Physicist, Aerospace Engineer Congratulated By Key
Lawmakers
Picked Friday by President Bush to lead NASA, 55-year old
Michael Griffin is as different from his predecessor as night and
day. Whereas Sean O'Keefe came from a financial and agency
management background, Griffin has a background in academics, with
strong science pedigrees in physics and aerospace engineering.
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