The President today announced his intention to nominate Jay Raymond Sculley to be an Assistant Secretary of the Army (Research, Development and Acquisition). He would succeed Percy Anthony Pierre.
Since 1978 Mr. Sculley has been head of the department of civil engineering at Virginia Military Institute (VMI). Previously he was associate professor of civil engineering at VMI in 1975-78 and assistant professor of civil engineering in 1970-73. In 1974-75 he was general manager, Corrugated Services, Inc., in Dallas, Tex. He was a design engineer and engineering consultant in 1965-69. Mr. Sculley was a civil engineer in the United States Air Force in 1962-65.
Mr. Sculley graduated from Virginia Military Institute (B.S., 1962) and Johns Hopkins University (M.S.E., 1970; Ph.D., 1974). He was born August 6, 1940, in Englewood, N.J., and resides in Lexington, Va.
Ronald Reagan, Nomination of Jay Raymond Sculley To Be an Assistant Secretary of the Army Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/247797