LUCIEN LEROY ROUZE
BIOGRAPHY AND OBITUARY
HURST, TX - Lucien Leroy Rouze,
64, director of training at Bell Helicopter Textron Inc., and a community
worker, died Wednesday [March 6, 1996] at a Fort Worth hospital.
Funeral: 11 a.m. Friday at Trinity Lutheran Church. Burial:
Greenwood Memorial Park. Visitation 6 to 8 tonight at the funeral home.
Memorials: The Memorial Fund at Trinity Lutheran Church.
Lucien Rouze was born July
22, 1931. He worked at Bell Helicopter 39 years, where his responsibilities
included all management and technical training for 7,000 employees and
co-production training with foreign nations.
He was a graduate of the University of Texas where he received a master
of arts in adult education and human resource development, and of Texas
Christian University, where he received a bachelor of arts in psychology.
Mr. Rouze was involved in a wide range of
projects relating to special development and certification, including Work
Simplification Conferences at Lake Placid; organization development at both the
University of Michigan and the University of California at Los Angeles; Grid
and Learning International programs; and assessment center administration.
Mr. Rouze was a member of a number of advisory
committees including: The Fort Worth
school district's Advisory Council for Vocational and Adult Education, and
Project C-3, Community, Corporations, Classrooms. He was an Adopt-A-School
Program Volunteer. The Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce, East Area Council Board
of Directors. At Tarrant County Junior College, he served on advisory
committees for the industrial supervision program, advisory committee for the
management development program and the advisory committee for the mental
health-mental retardation program. He
was on the advisory committee for human resource development at the University
of Texas at Austin; and the Study Committee for Proprietary Schools for the
Texas Legislature. Mr. Rouze was chairman of the advisory committee on
training loaned executives for the 1990 Fort Worth United Way Campaign, and
worked with Fort Worth Challenge on the committee to combat problems related to
alcohol and drugs. He was a member of the advisory committees for Texas State
Technical College for technical learning. His worked encompassed a number of
special projects ranging from the local level to all schools in the United
States teaching general helicopter technology.
Mr. Rouze had been a guest instructor
at Tarrant County Junior College, the University of Texas, the Texas Education
Commission, Association of Texas Technology Education, DeVry Institute and the
American Society for Training and Development.
On the international level, Mr. Rouze
designed, developed and implemented coproduction with foreign nations such as
Indonesia, Korea, Taiwan, Turkey and Canada. He trained students in advanced
skills and in staff work. He developed a close, personal friendship with the
manager of training for 13,000 employees in the Indonesian aircraft industry
and developed an ongoing relationship with Indonesia, Canada, Turkey and
Korea. He was director and founder of
the American Society of Training and Development; past congregational president
of Trinity Lutheran Church; and, in the past, was church high school sponsor,
Sunday school teacher and confirmation teacher, and was on pastoral call
committees. He was a member of the Boy
Scouts of America Advisory Board and was founder of the E.A.P. Program at Bell
and was founder of Bell's ethic's program.
He was in the Bell Helicopter Leadership Club.
Survivors: Wife, Nancy Pray Rouze
of Hurst; children, Allan and Jill Rouze of
Fort Worth, Linda and Jerry Ewen of Arlington, and Don and Montie Rouze of Colleyville; grandchildren, Kyle and Kirk Rouze; Alexa, Erin, Elizabeth and Matthew Ewen; and
Meghan, Emily and Cameron Rouze; brother and
sister-in-law, Glen and Pam Rouze of Orlando,
Fla.; and father-in-law, Cecil Pray of Lubbock. Robertson Mueller Harper 1500
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