Edward I. Schalon

Edward Irvin Schalon was a corporate executive who served as the chairman of board and chief executive officer of SPX Corporation, a Fortune 500 global company. He was also a Naval pilot in World War II and a champion golfer who won two Big Ten Conference individual championships while a student at the University of Michigan. He was also a benefactor of Grand Valley State University and has been inducted into the Grand Valley Hall of Fame, as well as the University of Michigan Athletic Hall of Honor.

Schalon was the ninth of eleven children born in 1920 to a German Lutheran family in St. Joseph, Michigan. Schalon began golfing at ageand became captain of the St. Joseph High School golf team. He was later inducted into the St. Joseph High School Athletic Hall of Fame.

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