1942
Now that the Little League Baseball season is drawing to a close, the pennant races throughout the country are the main topic of conversation around the dinner table for those of you with a son of age to participate. In Westfield, N. J., is the epitome of '42 representation where George Rounds manages the Owls with the assistance of Dick Maxwell in pre-little league ball called the Hedgehopper League for nine-year-olds. On the mound is Terry Rounds with Rich Maxwell behind the plate and Allen Corwith in center field. What does John Corwith do? Why, he's an umpire in the league. What a combination with George calling signals from the dugout and Black Jack calling plays on the field.
Early last year, Kent Barclay was appointed manager of marketing services for the Ford Division of the Ford Motor Company and now has recently been appointed to one of two major positions with the Ford Division. He now fills the post of executive assistant to the general sales manager, continuing his career with Ford which started in 1949 following a few years of association with Carrier Corp.
Fritz Downs, who joined Stanley-Humason, Inc. in Forestville, Conn, (a subsidiary of the Stanley Works), in 1940 as an estimator in the purchasing department has been named vice president in sales. Fritz worked in the purchasing department until 1950 when he was transferred from his duties as purchasing agent to customer service in the sales department and since 1953 has held the position of sales manager. In addition to his duties with Stanley-Humason, he is a director of the Spring Manufacturers Association Inc., and is president of the New England Group of Spring Manufacturers, an affiliate of the national organization.
In the rapidly growing electrical and electronic industry is a 21-million dollar company called Jefferson Electric headed by Ed Bennan. Since 1955, when Ed was named president of the Bellwood, Ill., firm, they have had a perpetual five-year plan calling for continuous re-evaluating by all departments on plans for the future which when combined with strict "budgetary control has kept the company prosperous and aggressive. Ed left school before graduation to work for Jefferson Electric, co-founded by his father, loading boxcars full time. By the time he became president, he had worked in all departments including service as production control manager, plant control manager and vice president in charge of manufacturing. At present, Ed is concentrating on two targets - exclusive new products and additional acquisitions and has currently under consideration two companies in the electrical and electronics field. As a business forecast, Ed believes sales and earnings for his company in 1960 will top those of 1959.
In February of this year, Bob Crane resigned as editor and publisher of the Elizabeth Daily Journal as a result of a difference in policy with the new owner, who, as reported in the January column, had acquired controlling interest from the Crane family last fall. Although Bob spends a great deal of time on New Jersey legislative work as a Senator, he now has found time to open an office in Elizabeth devoted to public relations counseling and corporate image development. Besides Robert C. Crane and Sons he heads Paragraph, Inc. in the field of speech writing for corporate executives and the design of annual reports. Bob has always wanted to do some lighter writing and is currently working on some articles for Field and Stream, the first of which appeared in the January issue on the subject of gun legislation to protect the sportsman's interest. Other material to appear later may include an article on bone fishing in the Virgin Islands which Bob reports as the best he has found. This was the result of a vacation he and Fran went on in February to St. Croix where they found the surroundings and atmosphere much to their liking.
Bert Anger has been, to say the least, enjoying his association with Nicholson File Company in Providence, R. I., since his original assignment with them in 1954. He has been in the export and foreign manufacturing phase of the business throughout his career with them and last year was appointed assistant vice president in Foreign Sales and Operations. Extensive traveling has resulted and as Bert writes, "Export jobs generally mean traveling and mine is no exception. In 1955 my family and I spent six months in Europe in connection with the building of a new plant in the Common Market area in Holland. Since then I have been to Europe a couple of times and have made two fascinating globe circling trips, one with emphasis on Africa and the other specializing in the Far Eastern markets. My three months journey through the Dark Continent gave me a chance to do some big game hunting in parts of French Equatorial Africa where no white man has been before (except Arthur Godfrey). I have various trophies including elephant tusks at home to attest to the success of the trip." When not traveling, Bert sails his 28-foot sloop, the "Wah Hoo Wah," in Rhode Island waters out of Narragansett Bay or skis with the family in the winter, Mont Tremblant last season. As an active alumnus in the Rhode Island Association, he is currently the organization's vice president.
Speaking of alumni, have you participated in this year's Alumni Fund? The Green Derby is running again.
Past experience of Sam Adkins in United Fund campaigns in Talbot County, Md., has prompted this year's chairman to appoint Sam as chairman of the business and industry division. As supervisor of branch yard operations for E. S. Adkins and Company, dealers in building materials, he has been most active in local business and civic activities. Prior to his present association which began in 1952, Sam had spent six years with the Richmond, Va., Times-Dispatch as a reporter covering city hall, federal courts, state house and other important assignments.
In the brief note department - from Portsmouth, N. H., comes word of Jim Erwin being named a director of the Portsmouth Trust Company as a representative on the board from adjoining York County in keeping with a long standing policy of the bank - Bill Benton is an associate with Booz, Allen and Hamilton, management consultants, working in Ohio - field sales manager for the Mechanical Goods Division of U. S. Rubber in New York City is Hank Davis - Bill Emerson, a physicist, is with the Sponge Product Division of B. F. Goodrich in Shelton, Conn.
And now for that summer vacation! Don't forget to cut us in on your activities between now and the fall when I'll be back again to bring you the news of '42. Have a good summer and in the meantime remember Krete and the Alumni Fund this month.
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