OLIN APPOINTMEN
Frank A. Peschl
FRANK PESCHL IS APPOINTED
DIRECTOR OF ENGINEERING
OF OLIN INDUSTRIES
Frank A. Peschl, formerly Plant Engineer for
Ecusta, has been appointed Director of Engineer
ing of Olin Industries, Inc., it was announced on
October 19 ty Ralph A. Ostberg, Vice President
for production.
This appointment is in keeping with Olin’s
policy of advancement within its own ranks. We
are glad that Mr. Peschl and Ecusta have warrant
ed this honor, and that his capabilities, which
were formerly limited to Pisgah Forest, are now
going to be made available to the other Divisions
as well. He will still be available to assist in any
of our engineering problems.
Mr. Peschl was born and educated in Switzer
land and is a graduate of the Swiss Federal Insti-
tuute of Technology of Zurich. A naturalized
citizen of the United States, he came to this coun
try in 1919 and joined the International Paper
Company. He left that organization in 1933 as
Assistant Chief Engineer to become a consulting
engineer with Black-Clawson Company of Hamil
ton, Ohio, manufacturers of pulp and paper ma
chinery. In 1937 he was engaged by the late Har
ry H. Straus to design and build the plant of
Ecusta Paper Corporation.
A. T. Safford
A. T. SAFFORD, JR.
APPOINTED MANAGER
OF SALES OF OLIN
CELLOPHANE DIVISION
Arthur T. Safford Jr., has been appointed
Manager of Sales of the Olin Cellophane Division
of Ecusta Paper Corporation to fill the vacancy
caused by the resignation of James L. Spencer,
N. H. Collisson, General Manager of the Olin
Cellophane Division announced recently.
Mr. Safford, former assistant to the general
manager of the Olin Cellophane Division, came
to Olin in 1949 as a consultant to Dr. Fred Olsen,
director of the research and development depart
ment. After Olin acquired the Harwid Company,
manufacturer of Polyethylene, Mr. Safford be
came Harwid vice president and later chairman
of the board.
A native of Lowell, Mass., he is a graduate of
Phillips Exeter Academy and Williams College.
He also attended Harvard Law School, and after
becoming a member of the Connecticut bar,
joined the Hartford Empire Company, manufact
urer of bottle machinery. Later he became vice
president and secretary of the Shaw Insulator
Company, a Hartford subsidiary engaged in the
molding of plastic articles and subsequently be
came executive vice president of the Plax Divi
sion.
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