Roy Arthur Hunt

He got a job as a machinist’s helper and later a mill clerk in the New Kensington Alcoa plant in 1903. By 1907, Roy was an assistant superintendent and in 1914 he joined Alcoa’s board of directors and served as General Superintendent of the company’s fabricating plants.

The company saw massive improvement during this time due to America's involvement in World War I and Roy became the company's vice president in 1918, in 1928 he became the company's president.

Roy held the position from 1928 to 1951, when he became chairman of the executive committee, a position he held until 1963.^[3][4][5][6] 

While being president of Alcoa, he was also a director of Mellon National Bank and Trust Company, the National Union Fire Insurance Company, and Pittsburgh Testing Laboratory. He held honorary degrees from the University of Pittsburgh, Oberlin College, and Grove City College. He was a trustee of Magee Women’s Hospital, the Pittsburgh Skin and Cancer Foundation, Grove City College, Carnegie Institute of Technology, Allegheny Cemetery (where he was buried) and was the founder of the Roy A. Hunter Foundation.^[1]

Roy remained a member of the Alcoa Board of Directors until his death on October 21, 1966.^[7][8]