{"id":560,"date":"2012-05-16T20:54:46","date_gmt":"2012-05-16T20:54:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/universaldomainexchange.com\/whoswho\/?p=560"},"modified":"2025-04-19T07:35:02","modified_gmt":"2025-04-19T07:35:02","slug":"chuck-tibbetts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/universaldomainexchange.com\/whoswho\/chuck-tibbetts\/","title":{"rendered":"Charles (Chuck) C. Tibbetts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Charles (Chuck) C. Tibbetts<\/strong> \u2013 (Sept 15, 1923 – November 9, 2010) – Tibbetts was born in Eagle Rock, California, and remained in Southern California throughout his life.<\/p>\n

He was a World War II Veteran, serving as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army; a D-Day Survivor (Omaha Beach), a proud member of the Military Order of the Purple Heart, awarded two Bronze Stars.<\/p>\n

After serving his country in World War II, Tibbetts returned to graduate from Occidental College in Los Angeles and was a Member of the Squires Club of Los Angeles.<\/p>\n

Tibbetts Westerfield Paint Company, Inc. began manufacturing screenprinting inks in 1922, a year before Chuck Tibbetts was born. After returning from serving his country, Chuck became the President of TW Graphics Group, one of the leaders in evolving screen printing from petroleum-based technology toward a more ecologically friendly water-based technology. They manufactured printing inks and high-performance coatings, developing and manufacturing innovative inks and high-performance coatings.<\/p>\n

He served as Chairman of the U.S. Contest & Record Board and the United States Delegate to Federation Aeronautique International; he traveled extensively and helped document the achievements of the United States space program from 1957 through 1991. He was aboard the B-52 flight that established the Okinawa-to-Spain world record for unrefueled straight-line distance flight in January 1962.<\/p>\n

Tibbetts was recognized by the Screen Printing and Graphic Imaging Association International for many contributions. He was a 1989 inductee into the Academy of Screen and Digital Print Technologies (ASDPT).<\/p>\n

Chuck Tibbetts passed away at home surrounded by family on November 9, 2010, after a stubborn confrontation with cancer.<\/div>\n
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He is survived by his beloved wife, Rose Marie “Sam;” brother, George; children, Jeffry (Stephanie), Melinda, Deborah, Christopher (Mari); 7 grandchildren; 7 great-grandchildren; and countless friends.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Note: EPTA of Milano, Italy, purchased TW Graphics Group California in 2018. Kor-Chem substantially acquired all the assets of the Florida operations of the TW Graphics Group, including the J&S plastisol ink line. J&S Inks’ long-standing tradition of producing high-quality, innovative inks for the screen printing market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Charles (Chuck) C. Tibbetts \u2013 (Sept 15, 1923 – November 9, 2010) – Tibbetts was born in Eagle Rock, California, and remained in Southern California throughout his life. He was a World War II Veteran, serving as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army; a D-Day Survivor (Omaha Beach), a proud member of the Military Order […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-members","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/universaldomainexchange.com\/whoswho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/universaldomainexchange.com\/whoswho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/universaldomainexchange.com\/whoswho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universaldomainexchange.com\/whoswho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universaldomainexchange.com\/whoswho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=560"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/universaldomainexchange.com\/whoswho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2969,"href":"https:\/\/universaldomainexchange.com\/whoswho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560\/revisions\/2969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/universaldomainexchange.com\/whoswho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universaldomainexchange.com\/whoswho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universaldomainexchange.com\/whoswho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}