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A Chat With
The Chairman
“Oh, what a spectacle that board affords, with its
snowy cloth, its shining porcelain, its gleaming
silver! And oh, what delights await the palate!
‘Now may digestion wait on appetite and health on
both!’ But grandfather, who has taken his ac
customed place at the table-head, pauses a mo
ment and glances around with tender eyes at the
happy faces before him. A silence falls, and heads
are bent as, in a low and reverent voice, he says
‘Let us pray.’’’
In those words of John Tremaine we can gather a
vivid mental picture of a holiday setting we have
all experienced at some time in our lives.
Throughout this holiday season in America we
should all pause to be thankful for the bounty we en
joy in this land.
Our Thanksgiving celebration was born in the
early 1600s and has become our nation’s most
distinctively traditional American holiday.
As the electronic age besets us, have our
thoughts of Thanksgiving and other holidays been
replaced by football games and parades? Football
games and parades aren’t bad. But for those of us
who recall holidays past—before football games
and parades reached their present
level—memories of the family reunions on those
days to rejoice together again are much more vivid
and genuine than the final score of last year’s
Thanksgiving Day football game.
I hope that each of you will be able to enjoy this
holiday season in a way that will provide a long-
lasting memory of family fun, good food and thanks
for all the good things we are so fortunate to enjoy.
>// yO
A-M Family Aids UW Drives
Many members of the Adams-
Millis Family have worked hard
to assist various United Way
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AMCO NEWS
December 1984
Vol. 40. No. :i
AMCO NEWS is edited and
produced quarterly by
Adams-Millis Corporation, 225
North Elm Street, High Point,
North Carolina. Contributions,
comments and suggestions
are always welcome by your
production staff.
Jackie Barnard, Editor
campaigns reach their goals this
year. More than $64,000 has been
contributed with the final tabula
tion to be made.
In Kernersville, Adams-Millis
was a “pacesetter” in the For
syth County United Way Cam
paign. Plants 3/10 showed a per
capita increase in contributions
of 90 percent while plants 4 and 14
recorded increases of 47 percent.
For those efforts the company
received Tiger Awards during
the campaign’s kickoff event in
October. Adams-Millis’s paceset
ter campaign was conducted in
September. Mary Clodfelter,
Deby Earnhardt and Bob Hoots
received awards for their roles in
heading the campaign in the
The President’s
Corner
Kernersville plants.
In the company’s
Adams-Millis employees have done it again!
Came through as leaders in the United Way cam
paigns in our communities. Elsewhere in this issue
of the AMCO News you’ll read an article detailing
the results of our plant campaigns.
I would like to express my appreciation for the
generosity you have shown to those less fortunate
than ourselves. The Adams-Millis family has con
tributed more than $64,000 to local campaigns, and
the totals are not completed yet! In many com
munities, our employees are among the largest
contributors. That makes me proud and I know it
makes you proud.
Through your gifts to United Way, you have
shown again how much you care about the com
munities you live in. You have shown that Adams-
Millis people believe in sharing their good fortune
with others around them. By pledging to the United
Way, by helping people when they need it, you have
made our communities a better place to live for all
of us.
Your generosity warms my heart this holiday
season. I am especially thankful to work with peo
ple who respond with such caring to the needs of
others, not just through the United Way but through
so many other civic, church and volunteer efforts
m your communities.
Again, please accept my heartfelt thanks and
warm wishes to each of you and your loved ones for
a Happy Holiday Season.
Ai.
-- '-v/nipaiiy s Ad
ministrative Office in High Point
employees contributed an
average of $41.60 which
represents a 12 percent increase
over last year’s campaign.
High Point’s Plant 7 employees
gave an average of $13.47, a per
capita increase of 46 percent over
the 1983 campaign.
At Plant 1 in High Point 100 per-
cent participation by employees
Plant 2 m Mount Airy had rkk
participation with an L °
$9-23, a per canifa T of
percemoverlheWcaCign
s Golden R ules
1. If you open it, close it.
2. If you turn it on, turn if off
3. If you unlock it, lock it up.
4. If you break it, admit it.
6 If vn” ^ someone who can.
6. If you borrow it, return it.
7.1 you value it, take care of it.
8. f you make a mess, clean it up.
,1’ l put it back.
pp* ^ someone else and you want to
get permission.
12 If ^ know how to operate it, leave it £
13 If it ainu”h i^usiness, don’t ask questii
tt »t will brighten someone’s day. say it.