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Six THE MILL WHISTLE July 8, 1946 Richards Appointed Head Of Vocational And Adult Education WHITCOMB PROMOTED TO VICE-PRESIDENT Succeeds J. E. Holmes, Who Held Post Many Years L. E. Richards, Marshall Field train ing director, has been appointed direc tor of vocational and adult education in the Leaksville township area succeed ing J. E. Holmes, school superintendent, who held the post for many years. Richards will have direct charge of all day school work. The classes will be comprised of students from the Leaks ville and Draper high schools. Courses will be primarily in textiles and in ma chine shop training. It is expected that under the new director there will be some changes in the curriculum and that evening classes will be resumed so that all persons who desire further edu cation will have the opportunity to ob tain it. A native of Dalton, Mass., Richards worked for the Eastman Kodak Com pany, Rochester, N. Y., while attending L. E. RICHARDS school in Rochester. He worked eight hours on the night shift and went to schooi eight hours. For 13 years he was with Crane and Company, Inc., at Dal ton, manufacturers of currency, bank notes, American express checks and other forms of high grade paper. He served as foreman, night superintend ent and superintendent. In June, 1943, he was loaned to the War department as a consultant and was assigned to Army Airway Com munication Service with headquarters in Asheville. While with the War de partment he traveled over 50,000 miles, to every continent except Australia, Appointment of Harold W. Whitcomb of Spray, as divi sional vice-president of Mar shall Field and Company was announced in Chicago June 24 by Hughston M. McBain, presi dent of the Company. Whit comb will continue in his pres ent duties as assistant general manager of the Manufacturing Division reporting to Luther H. Hodges, corporate vice-presi dent of the Company and gen eral manager of the Manufac turing Division. A native of New Hampshire, Whitcomb became associated with Marshall Field and Com pany in 1936 as manager of the Lumb Knitting Company ih Pawtucket, R. 1. He moved in 1937 to the Spray headquarters of the Manufacturing Division as director of purchases. He subsequently was appointed assistant production manager of the Company’s Southern mills and in 1941 went to Chi cago as an executive in the Operating Division of the Mar shall Field retail stores. He returned to the Manufac turing Division in the fall of 1943 as assistant to Hodges and a year later was appointed assistant general manager. He moved his office to Spray where he has been in charge of the mill operations since that time. Whitcomb’s appointment was one of the several announced June 24. Austin T. Graves, general operating manager, and Harold J. Nutting, general merch andise manager of the Chicago and suburban retail stores, were elected corporate vice-presidents. Garret L. and visited some of the Air Corps’ most remote bases in Iceland, Iran, British West Africa, and Ascension Island. Richards returned to the United States on July 4, 1945, and came to Marshall Field and Company July 15. In his work here he has put on training programs in Work Simplification, Supervisory Training, Instructor Training, and Pub lic Speaking. In addition he has taken an active interest in many civic affairs. He is chairman of the training commit tee for Cherokee Council, Boy Scouts of America, president of the Y. M. C. A. junior baseball league, and was one of the earliest supporters of the Tri-City American Legion junior baseball team. For two weeks in August, Richards will serve as an instructor at the Lake Placid, N. Y., Work Simplification Con ference which is under direction of Allan H. Mogensen, industrial consult ant of New York. HAROLD W. WHITCOMB Bergen, personnel manager, and Law^jl rence B. Sizer, sales promotion man ager of the retail stores, were elected divisional vice-presidents. Hector A. Escabosa, general manager of Frederick and Nelson, the Marshall Field store in Seattle, was also elected a divisional vice-president. All of the men elected have been with the Com pany for many years and will con tinue in their present duties without change. Wage Bureau Members Study at U. of Iowa Elwood Eggleston and J. W. Sher wood, both of the Wage Bureau, have returned from the University of Iowa, at Iowa City, where they attended the Summer Management course conducted by Dr. Ralph M. Barnes, professor of industrial engineering at the University of Iowa. Teacher: “Johnny, I’m surprised! Do you know any more jokes like that?” Johnnie: “Yes, teacher.” Teacher: “Well, stay after school.” Buy . . . Sell ♦ , . Swap ^ FOR SALE—2 window screens—30” x 55 Vz”. New. Also 2 Venecian blinds 28”. Phone 530.
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