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National Aeronautics and Space Administration Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center Houston, Texas 77058 AC 713 483-5111

Rh Kelly Humphries (Phone: 713-483-4111)

YOUNG RECEIVES SILVER KNIGHT OF MANAGEMENT AWARD

Dr. R. Wayne Young, Deputy Director of Administration at Johnson Space Center, has been honored for his management and leadership skills by the JSC chapter of the National Management Association (NMA).

The Silver Knight of Management Award presented to Young is the highest honor NMA chapters can bestow on an executive. The recipient must be a civic, business or industrial executive who is well-known to the members of an organization and whose example has stimulated and inspired them; who has demonstrated the highest qualities of leadership in business, community and industrial relationships; and who is well-known for his/her efforts in the preservation of the competitive enterprise system.

Young joined JSC in 1962 as the Apollo Guidance and Navigation Subsystems Manager and during the following two years became Project Manager over that area. He later became branch chief in the Lunar Module Project Office and Assistant Chief of the Apollo Program Control Division.

In 1967 and 1968, he attended the Stanford University School of Business Management as a Sloan Fellow. Upon completion of his studies, he returned to JSC as Manager of the Program Control and Contracts Office in the Advanced Missions Program Office. He has assumed positions of increasing responsibility, including Manager of Space Shuttle Program Support, Assistant Director of Procurement, Manager of Space Shuttle Resources and Schedules Integration and Assistant Director of Administration before receiving his current assignment.

Young's parents, Mr and Mrs. Robert L. Young are residents of Waco, Texas.