MR. NORMAN HARVEY COLLISSON
ELECTED VICE PRESIDENT AND
DIRECTOR OF ECUSTA PAPER
CORPORATION
May 9th, 1950*»it;
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Dear Friends:
It gives me the greatest pleasure to announce the appointment of Mr. Norman
Harvey Collisson to Vice President and Director of Ecusta Paper Corporation.
Though he has been with us but a few months, Mr. Collisson has already
made many friends throughout Ecusta. I am sure all of you would be interested in
knowing more about this gentleman whose career both in private and public life
has been so outstanding.
Mr. Collisson was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and is a graduate of
Swarthmore College, having received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Civil En
gineering. For many years he specialized in bridge design, water and sewer plants,
and from 1924 through 1937 was Chief Power Engineer for the Atlantic Gty
Electric Company and Power Engineer in charge of Industrial Development for the
American Gas and Electric Service Company in New York, from 1936 to 1941.
In 1942 Mr. Collisson joined the United States Navy with the rank of Lieutenant
and advanced to the grade of Captain in 1946.
On entering the Navy, he was assigned as the Chief Engineer of the Third
Naval District and in 1943 was ordered to duty under the Secretary of the Navy
to seize and operate for the Government industrial plants where production was
believed insufficient to the maximum war effort. During 1946 Mr. Collisson was
named Coal Mines Administrator for all bituminous coal mines in the United
States. Later in 1947, after his separation from the Navy, he was appointed Special
Assistant to the Secretary of the Interior, J. A. Krug, and directed to correlate ac
tivity of that department and head preparations for the Marshall Plan. In the
early spring of 1948, he became Chairman of the Cabinet Technical Commission
which was a group of American Industrial Engineers appointed to study German
plant dismantlement. Several months later, Mr. Collisson was appointed by the
President as Chief of the ECA Mission to Germany which position he held until
December, 1949 when he asked to be relieved. He was immediately succeeded by our
very good friend, Mr. Robert Hanes, President of the Wachovia Bank & Trust Com
pany of North Carolina.
Since he joined our staff, Mr. Collisson—as Executive Assistant to me—has
been devoting almost all of his efforts to the management and engineering problems
connected with our Cellophane plant under construction. Mr. Collisson will continue
to be in full charge of this work and as time goes on will relieve me of more of
my present duties. Under Mr. Collisson’s leadership we will hasten the day when
we shall have in operation the finest and most efficient Cellophane plant.
I know that all of you will join me in welcoming Mr. Collisson to the Ecusta
family and that you will cooperate with him to the fullest degree for the benefit
of all of us.
With best wishes.
Sincerely yours.
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