Biography

Charles "Chick" Rolling is the retired director of product development at Air Products and Chemicals, where for nearly thirty years he led mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, new ventures, and other corporate development initiatives. Air Products is a global supplier of gases, chemicals, and products serving the technology, energy, healthcare, and industrial markets. Rolling retired in 1994 and lives in Helena, Montana, where he is active with the Lewis and Clark County United Way and the local chapter of S.C.O.R.E. With his wife, Joan, he has endowed the Charles Rolling Scholarship in Engineering, the Mary Rolling Lectureship in Creative Writing, and the Rolling Program Fund in Engineering and Ethics.