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IN MEMORIAM H.M. (MACK) BURT
Members of the Board of Directors of the ICI, 1988. Top row L-R: William L. Roberts, E.I. DuPont de Nemours; Robert Barbero, Gray Syracuse, Inc.; William Wurster, Sure Cast, Inc.; H.M. Burt, Southern Tool Inc.; Jerry L. Donohue, Accu-Cast, Inc.; R. Russell Stratton, ICI Past Executive Director. Bottom row L-R: Thierry N. Thys, Precision Founders, Inc.; Larry Comunale, Consolidated Casting Corp.; Jack Tangeman, Hemet Casting Co.; Joe Behre, Sr., K.W. Thompson Tool Co.
served on the ICI Board of Directors from 1986 - 1992, holding Vice President and Board President positions in 1988-1991. Henry McKenzie Burt, Jr., 86, of
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Anniston, passed away on December 6. Mr. Burt, “Mack” to all who knew him, was a native of Talladega. He was a resident of Anniston for
the last 54 years. Mack was a graduate of Talladega High School and attended Auburn University where he earned a B.S in Mechanical Engineering. While at Auburn he was a member of the Pi Kappa Alpha social fraternity. Upon graduation he received his commission as a Second Lieutenant in the United
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he Investment Casting Institute is deeply saddened to announce the passing of H.M. (Mack) Burt. Burt
States Army and served in the Corps of Engineers at Fort Belvoir, Virginia. He continued his education with post- graduate work at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, Georgia State University, Emory University, and the London Business School. His business career included both domestic and international assignments at United States Steel, Brown-Teledyne Engineering, and Scientific-Atlanta, Inc. His last position with Scientific-Atlanta was Group Vice President, Equipment Systems Group, during which time he had responsibilities for facilities in Anniston; Atlanta; Edinburgh, Scotland; and Prague, Czechoslovakia. Much of Mack’s business experience involved turning failing businesses into healthy ones.
In 1983 Mack led a group of
investors to purchase Southern Tool Incorporated in Oxford, Alabama, from Scientific-Atlanta. He served as Chairman and CEO at Southern Tool until his retirement in 1999. He was instrumental in building the company into a major investment casting business, at the time the second largest of its type nationally, employing over 500 people in the local area when he retired. A
lifelong devotee to Auburn University he, along with his wife
Rebecca, established an engineering scholarship in the name of their late daughter Mary Rozelle Burt Lentjes. Mack also endowed a professorship in the College of Engineering. He was a member of the Sanford Society, the Ginn Society, the George Petrie Society, and the 1856 Society. He was a life member of the Auburn Alumni Association. Mack’s personal and business
philosophy was that life’s successes and satisfactions revolve around love of and respect for your fellow man. He was fond of family, laughter, friends, fishing, travel and his tomato growing prowess. On business and on personal trips with his wife he traveled most of the United States, Europe and the Far East. He is survived by his wife of 65 years, Rebecca Rozelle Burt; his son, William Morris Burt and his wife, Sharon; three grandchildren, Rebecca Lentjes of the University of Kentucky, William Lentjes, and his wife, Dana, and Jack Lentjes, all of Atlanta; son-in-law, David Lentjes of Atlanta; and step-granddaughter Elizabeth Sellers Myrick, Dustin Myrick, sons Nolan and Reece of Birmingham; and his faithful dog Woodrow. He was preceded in death by his daughter, Rozelle Burt Lentjes, his parents Lucy and Henry Burt of Talladega, and his brother Walter McArthur Burt.
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