1939
Somebody sent us page 132 of "Industrial Distribution" September '59 issue. The headlines were "Noland Co. Plan Spells Out Management Functions" and there was a picture of our own Bozo Noland grinning from hurt having just kicked himself upstairs to chairman of the board from tired old president since 1951. This Newport News, Va., super distributor of just about everything from plumbing and heating supplies through industrial and machine tools to electrical, mechanical and appliance, has its counterpart in Dayton, Ohio, in the W. H. Kiefaber Co. Now, oddly enough, there is no tie-in between the two companies, but Warner Kiefaber happens to run the company in Dayton named for his father, and this same classmate Warner happens to be the brother-in-law of Bozo because Bozo married Warner's sister Janie a long time ago and they each have four kids. I'm going into all of this because I grew up with Warner and see him often and I told him that the first time there was practically no news for this column I was going to write his biography. We are there.
When Warner graduated from Dartmouth he entered the USNR as a deck officer and married Annette almost simultaneously. Issue ensued, and they have presently three boys and a girl of various sizes, a police dog, a rather large home with a relatively clean swimming pool, a summer place in Canada, and Warner is currently president of a new country club project which takes real guts. His address is 3732 Blossom Heath Road, Kettering 29, Ohio. (This biography is only excelled in brevity by the Apostle's Creed.)
Bob Cushman has been promoted by Norton Company, Worcester, Mass., to be general sales manager of its Abrasive Division. With Norton for the past fifteen years, Bob moves up from the job of sales manager of grinding wheels. His first sales post with the company was as an abrasive engineer in the central New York State area, after which he became district manager for the Pacific Coast in 1952. He has been with the home Worcester office since 1955, steadily advancing to his present position.
Bill Russell was also involved in the Norton Company sales management changes that gave Bob Cushman a new job. Bill, formerly Detroit district manager, has returned to Worcester headquarters to be manager of field sales of grinding wheels, thus taking the place of the man who took the place vacated by Bob. Bill began with Norton in Pittsburgh in 1940, took time out to serve in the Navy, and then became an abrasive engineer in Toledo, which led to his being named district manager in Detroit in 1949.
Clem Bumap is with Atomics International in Canoga Park, Calif., where he is chief of sales representation. He lives at 267 North Bowling Green Way, Los Angeles 49. Harry Edmondson is sales manager of the Maynard Mfg. Co. of La Canada, Calif. He lives at 1102 Unitah Road. John Gauntlett apparently has his own travel agency under the happy name of Cook-Gauntlett Agency, Inc., avec wagons-lits no doubt. It is located at 207 North Aurora St., Ithaca, N. Y. Dave Walsh is with Gulf Oil Corp. in retail sales. He. now lives at 163 Rice Ave., Box 276, Rockland, Mass. Bob Warner has moved to Lorain, Ohio, where he is an insurance agent with the Price Insurance Agency - 115 Fourth St. Lt. Col. Eugene L. Weeks is now a student at the Armed Forces Staff College in Norfork. He lists his current home address as 54 Bryant Ave., White Plains, N. Y.
The spotlights again shine on our glowworm friend L. Pemberton Pleasants, marketing development manager - lighting sales, Sylvania Lighting Products Div., General Tel. and Electronics. Pem has been appointed to the executive committee of BLBS. (Better Light Better Sight Bureau) BLBS is now 25 years old and has spent this last quarter century promoting, of all things, better light and better sight. There are many moguls on the executive committee with Our Boy, and there is a general feeling in the announcement that lens grinders and hucksters of spectacle frames are one with Ninevah and Tyre.
A while back we gushed enthusiasm for the new marina project of Bunny and Bill Webster (who now live at Box 148, Old Saybrook, Conn.). Now we read in the New Bedford (Mass.) Sun that Allan Vaitses, who left Dartmouth early to build boats, is still building boats, and a reputation at the same time. At nearby Mattapoisett, Allan has been averaging five or so boats a year and now has three partners who join him in working these craft from scratch. They even cast their own hardware.
Dr. Ralph E. Holben, son of Prof, and Mrs. R. P. Holben of Dartmouth's department of sociology, and his wife have left Washington, D. C., for Guatemala City, Guatemala, where he will be employed by that nation's central bank (Banco de Guatemala) in the capacity of economic and monetary advisor. His services are being provided to the Bank by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. He expects to return to work with the International Cooperation Administration in Washington after a year's absence. He has been working for ICA both in Europe and in Washington since 1951.
Bill Weber, manager-manufacturing, Home Laundry Dept., Hotpoint Division of General Electric is taking a couple months of advanced management courses through GE. After Hanover, Bill took graduate work at Harvard and the University of Conn. He was an industrial engineer with Pratt & Whitney, was a lieutenant in the Navy's Bureau of Aeronautics, then went to Western Electric as an industrial engineer. From 1947 to '55 he was with Sperry Products as manager-production, and assistant to the president before leaving to work with General Electric, Hotpoint Division.
And still more new addresses for that Xmas card list:
George Sims, 100 N. W. 40th Dr., Gainsville, Fla.; Rod Stebbins, 902 Butternut Rd., Madison 4, Wise.; Charlie Urschel, 2012 N. B. of C. Bldg., San Antonio 5, Texas; Bob Bacon, Highbridge Rd., Manlius, N. Y.; Harry Gates, Box 93, Mont Vernon, N; H.; Prof. David F. Long, Dept. of History, University of New Hampshire, Durham, N. H.; Win Naylor, Flight Captain, Eastern Airlines, Inc., Logan Airport, East Boston, Mass., with a home address of 83 Claypit Hill Rd., Wayland, Mass.; Col. Bill Parkhill USAF, 3482 N. Emerson, Arlington 7, Va.; Dr. John Fitzpatrick, pathologist, Apt. 802, Riverview Terrace, Charleston, W. Va.; Herb Furlow, 6 West 9th St., New York 11, N. Y.; Charlie Stack, 892 Helena Dr., Sunnyvale, Calif.; Dr. John Stewart, 7795 Calle Casino Dr., Cucamonga, Calif.
And if you have any cards left over, sendone to me with some scoop. Merry Xmas!
Secretary, 1908 Coolidge Dr. Dayton 19, Ohio
Treasurer, 15 Meridan PL, Huntington Station, N. Y.
