F. Cecil Grace

F. Cecil Grace graduated from Harvard as an Electronic Engineer. It was before the Second World War and our country feared enemy invasion. We had no radar. Cecil was one of the select Electronic Engineers our army chose to study British Radar developments in England and to bring the technical information back to us. He flew and studied Radar in England as part of the ETG (Electronic Training Group). Cecil Grace maintained a love of aviation which is a family trait -- see a list of pilots in the family.

After the war Cecil worked with DuMont Television and received a government patent as part of his interest in mechanical music. He has been acutely aware of the major issues of our times. With scholarly levels declining in our schools and with drugs and delinquency burgeoning, Cecil and Boo decided to try to influence the dialogue of our teenagers in the direction of good instead of evil. They founded the F. Cecil Grace Operation Positive Role Model in 2000.

Volunteer student judges examine student nominations of other students who have been Role Models over the year. Those students selected by their fellow students each receive a one thousand dollar award. The Positive Role Model Program (PRM) expended over $250,000 in the last six years and is growing rapidly. It is now formally recognized as a not-for-profit Foundation.

The other major problem that Cecil Grace confronted was global obesity which the UN pronounced as the single greatest threat to the health of humankind. He sponsored and financed the invention of a Fullness Program a diet shake and bar. This program received a US patent in 2002.