SAMUEL BURNETTE
NELIA TALBOTT
ALFRED COX
MERLE RATHBURN
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WALTER THOMPSON
Six Receive Fieldcrest Service Awards
February is a month of outstanding
service anniversaries for six employees
in several different company locations.
Samuel E. Burnette of the Karastan
Mill and Alfred R. Cox and Nelia J.
Talbott, both of the Bedspread Mill,
reached their 45th milestones of con
tinuous service.
Completing 40-year records with the
Company were Ruth B. Manley, of the
Blanket Finishing Mill; Merle G. Rath-
burn of the Fieldcrest Marketing Di
vision, New York; and Walter E.
Thompson of the Karastan MiU.
Mr. Burnette joined the Company as
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CHARLES C. WILSON
RONALD B. HUNTER
Personnel Managers Appointed
Charles C. Wilson, personnel manager
of the Karastan Spinning Mill, Green
ville, has been promoted to personnel
manager of the Automatic Blanket
Plant, Smithfield, replacing John J.
Beck who has resigned.
Ronald B. Hunter, a personnel assist
ant in the Industrial Relations Depart
ment at the General Offices, Eden, was
promoted to personnel manager of the
Karastan Spinning Mill.
The new appointments were effec
tive February 1 and Mr. Wilson and
Mr. Hunter both report to J. B. O’Neal,
regional personnel manager.
Mr. Wilson, a native of Greensboro,
received his bachelor of business ad
ministration degree from the University
of Georgia. He joined Fieldcrest in Oc
tober, 1967, and underwent a period of
training in the Industrial Relations De
partment at Eden prior to his appoint
ment as personnel manager at Green
ville January 8, 1968.
Mr. Hunter, a native of Fort Lauder
dale, Fla., joined Fieldcrest January 6,
1969 as a personnel assistant in the In
dustrial Relations Department at Eden.
He will assume his duties at Greenville
following a period of training.
He received his B. S. degree in in
dustrial management from Florida State
in 1968. He served four years in the Air
Force between graduation from high
school and the time he entered college.
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Copyright, 1969, Fieldcrest Mills, Inc.
Eden, N. C. 27288
Issued Every Other Monday For Employ®*®
and Friends of Fieldcrest Mills, Inc.
OTIS MARLOWE
EDITOR
SANDRA PENCE
ASSOCIATE EDITOR
ADVISORY BOARD
R. F.
P. A.
J. L.
W. F.
S. R.
Bell
Brodie
Crabtree
Crumley
Culligan
J. S. Eggleston
A. H. Justice
J. M. Moore
J. M. Rimmer
C. C. Wilson
Vol. 27,
Monday,
Feb. 17, 1969, No^
SERVICE
nniversaries
Forty-Five Years
Samuel E. Burnette Karastajj
Alfred R. Cox Bedspread
Forty Years
Ruth B. Manley Blanket Finishio^
Merle G. Rathburn Fieldcrest Sal®
Thirty Years
Paul J. Tiller KarastaO
Twenty-Five Years
Broward H. Rutherford Colurnb^*^
ToW®*
Roy M. Carter Blanket Finishia^
Twenty Years .
James W. Barnes Columbus ToW®
Fifteen Years .
Willie W. Green Columbus ToW®
Edward J. Iliffe Fieldcrest Sal®
John H. Staak Fieldcrest Sal®
Clayton F. Stewart .... Columbus ToW®
Julian Youngblood .... Columbus ToW®
Jacqueline D. Ray Columbus ToW®
Seab W. Miller Columbus ToW®
Joyce Osborne Columbus ToW®
Curtis Littleton Columbus Tov'^®
Ten Years ,
Cecil C. Dean Columbus ToW®
Thomas J. Overby Blanl^®
Eugene Murray KarastaiJ
Aaron P. Wood Fieldale ToW®
Barbara A. Warren Karasta®®
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