Stanley M Rumbough Jr

Mr. Rumbough has been involved in investments and business development for more than five decades. He has been a founder, CEO or director of more than 40 companies in the U.S., the West Indies and Mexico. He was the co-founder of Citizens for Eisenhower and served as special assistant to President Eisenhower, 1953-56. He also was a founding member and director of the Young Presidents Organization and the World Presidents Organization and the founder of the Washington Tennis Patrons Foundation. Mr. Rumbough was chairman of the U.S. Committee for the United Nations, a director of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, the Foreign Policy Association, the Population Resource Center, and the USLTA Davis Cup Policy Committee. Locally, he was president or director of Planned Parenthood for almost 20 years until 1995, when he became an honorary director. He is a life trustee of the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts and of the International House in New York City. During WWII, he served as a U.S. Marine Corps fighter pilot and was awarded 2 DFC’s and 8 air medals. At Yale University, Mr. Rumbough edited the college’s humor magazine before graduating with a bachelor’s degree in American history in 1942. He attended the New York University Graduate School of Business Administration from 1947-51. Born April 25, 1920, in New York, he was the son of Lt. Colonel (later Colonel) Stanley Maddox Rumbough and Elizabeth Morse Colgate, the great-granddaughter of the founder of the company that became Colgate-Palmolive. Mr. Rumbough lived in Palm Beach for nearly a half-century. A businessman and investor, he was a founder, chief executive officer or director of more than 40 companies in the United States, West Indies and Mexico. He and his wife, Janne Harlow, a champion dressage rider, divided their time between homes in Palm Beach and East Hampton. The couple married in 1990. An earlier marriage to Nedenia Hutton, the daughter of Marjorie Merriweather Post and E.F. Hutton and known professionally as the actress Dina Merrill, ended in divorce. In addition to his wife, Mr. Rumbough is survived by his children Stanley Hutton Rumbough of Palm Beach and New York, and Nedenia “Nina” Colgate Rumbough Roosenburg of Bray’s Island, S.C.; stepchildren Kai Christian Janson and Karina Janson Fitz; and his grandchildren and great-grandchildren. He was predeceased by his son, David, and by his sister, Elizabeth van Norden.