Paul M. Castleberry

College of Engineering Selects Two for 2007 Hall of Fame

October 8, 2007 - The College of Engineering and Applied Science will hold its annual Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony on October 13 during which time two new members will be inducted into the Hall of Fame.  The college is pleased to recognize William M. Stoval and Paul M. Castleberry as the 2007 recipients of this lifetime achievement award.

Paul  M. Castleberry received his B.S. in mechanical engineering in 1956 from the University of Wyoming. In 1969 he became a registered professional engineering in industrial engineering from the State of California. Originally from Baldwyn, Mississippi, he attended Pearl River Junior College in Poplarville, Mississippi on a football scholarship. He served in the U.S. Naval Air Force f 1948-1950. In 1956 he graduated from UW with a B.S. in mechanical engineering, was a member of the Sigma Tau Engineering Honor Society, and the Phi Kappa Phi Academic Honor Society. After graduation he was employed as a project engineer for Monolith Portland Cement Company in Glendale, California.

In 1962, Castleberry joined Carnation Company where he began his distinguished thirty year career, first as a project engineer for the Instant Products Division, overseeing the plants producing non-fat instant dry milk and Carnation's coffee creamer, Coffee-mate. In 1971, he was promoted to chief engineer of Carnation's Pet Food Division, responsible for the expansion and design of factories producing Friskies Pet Foods and was named director of corporate engineering in 1987. In 1989, he became the first vice president of engineering in the ninety year history of Carnation, managing all engineering and major capital expenditures for seven operating divisions and thirty-six factories. In 1991, he was selected vice president of engineering of Nestle, USA, Inc., after Nestle acquired and consolidated Carnation with Hill Brothers, Stouffer's Foods and Nestle Confections. He administered the restructuring of all four engineering departments involved in the consolidation before retiring in 1992.

Castleberry served his church as both a Deacon and member of the Board of Trustees. He and his wife, Cassie, have been married for 56 years and have two children and five grandchildren.

William “Bill” M. Stoval, Jr.

A native of Casper, Wyoming, William "Bill" M. Stoval, Jr. graduated from UW in 1967 with a B.S. in mechanical engineering, aeronautical option, in 1967. That same year, by virtue of a friendship with another UW engineering graduate, H. David Reed, he was offered a job at the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston as a Flight Dynamics Officer (FDO), one of the most important and demanding positions in all of flight control.

As FDO he was responsible for insuring that the trajectory of the spacecraft remained within acceptable limits to ensure crew safety. This included the planning and execution of all maneuvers over the course of a flight as well as real-time high-speed trajectory monitoring during launch phase, powered descent to and powered ascent from the lunar surface.

Stoval became the flight dynamics rendezvous specialist and "flew” 5 lunar missions and 4 earth orbit missions. His responsibility further increased when he began "flying" launch phase, the most critical and demanding period of manned spaceflight. He "flew" launch phase on the last 3 Apollo flights and 5 subsequent earth orbit missions.

Stoval was honored by NASA, with the Superior Achievement Award, for his critical role in controlling the return trajectory on Apollo13, perhaps the most significant of his accomplishments. His nomination to the Hall of Fame was supported by some of the legends of manned space flight such as Chris Kraft, Glynn Lunney, and astronauts Charlie Duke and Al Worden.  During his nine year career as an FDO he made many significant contributions to manned space exploration.

Congratulations to the 2007 College of Engineering and Applied Science Hall of Fame inductees Paul M. Castleberry and William M. Stoval, Jr.