Stan Rumbough's house

Stanley M. Rumbough Jr. is an heir to the Colgate fortune. He married Dina Merrill, an actress and heiress to the Post Cereals fortune through her mother, Marjorie Merriweather Post. Her father, Edward Francis Hutton, started E.F. Hutton, a large stock brokerage. The two later divorced.

Mr. Rumbough has been involved in investments and business development for more than five decades. He has been a founder, CEO or director of more than 40 companies in the U.S., the West Indies and Mexico. He was the co-founder of Citizens for Eisenhower and served as special assistant to President Eisenhower, 1953-56. He also was a founding member and director of the Young Presidents Organization and the World Presidents Organization and the founder of the Washington Tennis Patrons Foundation. Mr. Rumbough was chairman of the U.S. Committee for the United Nations, a director of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, the Foreign Policy Association, the Population Resource Center, and the USLTA Davis Cup Policy Committee. Locally, he was president or director of Planned Parenthood for almost 20 years until 1995, when he became an honorary director. He is a life trustee of the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts and of the International House in New York City. During WWII, he served as a U.S. Marine Corps fighter pilot and was awarded 2 DFC’s and 8 air medals. He is a graduate of Yale University and attended New York University Graduate School of Business Administration.