Honored For Long Service
Six Fieldcrest employees were
honored recently for completing
40 years of continuous service
with the company.
They are: Howard C. Honey
cutt, loom fixer, Alexander
Sheeting Mill; Edward L. Joyce,
department foreman.
Bedspread Mill; Alice C. John
son, weaver, Alexander Sheeting
Mill; Robert M. Smoot, general
foreman, North Carolina
Finishing; Claude H. Snider, line
up utility oi^rator. North Caro
lina Finishing Company; and
Andrew W. Warren, shift fore
man, Fieldale Towel Mill.
Each long-service employee
has received the Fieldcrest 40-
year service emblem, a $40 gift
certificate for company
merchandise, and a letter of
commendation from William C.
Battle, president of Fieldcrest
Mills, Inc.
Mr. Honeycutt began
continuous service on December
23,1935, as a battery filler at the
Alexander Sheeting Mill. He
became a loom fixer, his present
classification, in 1%5.
Mr. Joyce began continuous
service on December 19,1935, as
a card tender at the Bedspread
Mill. He later worked as a clerk,
assistant foreman and shift fore
man before becoming depart
ment foreman of the Shipping,
Warehousing and Receiving
Department at that mill.
Mrs. Johnson has been a
weaver at the Alexander
Sheeting Mill for all of her 40
years of service. She began em
ployment on December 18, 1935.
Mr. Smoot, who began em
ployment at the North Carolina
Finishing Company on
December 3, 1935, worked as a
second hand until 1951 when he
became general foreman of the
Dye Department. He became
general foreman of the Dye No. 2
and the Grey No. 2 departments
HOWARD C. HONEYCUTT
ALICE C. JOHNSON
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EDWARD L. JOYCE
ANDREW W. WARREN
in 1970 and continues in that
classification.
Mr. Snider began continuous
service at North Carolina
Finishing on December 30, 1935.
He worked as a packer, yarder,
server packer and shaders,
measure assistant, winder
assistant and merchandise
assistant before becoming a line
up utility operator, his present
classification, in January of
1975.
Mr. Warren began continuous
service at the Fieldale Towel
Mill on December 16, 1935 as a
weaver. He later worked as a
fixer-in-training, loom fixer and
assistant foreman before
becoming a shift foreman in the
Weaving Department in 1970. He
continues in that classification.
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Draper Christmas Parade
Fieldcrest Mills’ professional float in the ninth
annual Draper Children’s Christmas Parade had a
Cinderella motif. The highly-successful parade was
sponsored by the Draper Y’s Men’s Club, Eden
Fire Station No. 2 (Draper) and Draper merchants.
Dan Squires, a supervisor in the Spinning Depart
ment at the Draper Sheeting Mill, has been the
parade chairman for several years.
Service Anniversaries
Forty Years
Robert M. Smoot n. C. Finishing
Dennis L. Jenkins Bedspre^^
Andrew W. Warren Fieldale
Alice C. Johnson Alexander SheetM
Edward L. Joyce Bedspread
Howard C. Honeycutt Alexander Sheets
Claude H. Snider n. c. Finishing
Clyde R. Goode Alexander SheetiaS
Thirty-Five Years
Isaac T. Shoaf N. C. Finishiw
Ruby C. Murray Bedspread
James Black, Jr N. C. FinishiaS
Charles H. Swink N. C. Finishiaa
Curtis R. Martin Fieldal®
Mildred L. Rickman Bedspread Finishiae
Thirty Years , .
Rivers L. Bowling Sheet Finishias
Charlotte T. McBride General
HershellJ.Hall Columb®
William C. Hill Fields*®
MaryP.Moore Karasta"
William E. Murray Karas^
T. Elwood Edwards Automatic Blahp
Nancy B. Fulcher Draper Sheetia»
Laura A. Hale Karasta
Ozella A. Wilmoth Karasta"
EmmaE.Tillie Field"
Ruby S. Perdue Field"*
Dillard P. Stewart Draper Sheet™
G. Donald Thornton Field"
Twenty-Five Years , ^
Leonard R. Wright tinS
F. Guerrant Norman Bed Fashions Mill Accoun
OklaG. Grubbs Fieldcrest Sa*
Myron H. Newsome
Odell J. Splawn Alexander Shee
Twenty Years . a
Jasper J. Tilley Sheet Finish™
Thomas G. Rice Karas^
Bobby H. Barbee Columb""
Melvin J. Fuller Karas^J,
Hazel P. Brown... Sheet Finis*
Cecil D. Jeffries Los Angeles Service
Faye M. Flinchum Accounts Receiv"|
Eva O. Corum Sheet Fi”’®*’ip(
Bernard L. Ahern Karastan Sa*'
Bulah M. Ingram tTolunab
Albert F. Serocke Fieldcrest Sa*
Franklin D. Hutchins Alexan'
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Harry M. Wilks Colun"'
Fifteen Years
Alfred H. Peel Karastan Spinf..v,
Irene K. Dewese Mt. L
Freds. Church Field"'.
Mildred Bennett Coluna'
pas
Betty V. Tate General
Off!"®!
Michael D. (Jentry Karastan Service Cen
itef
Eugenia S. Knight General
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William G. Newell Winche"J
Larry K. Hodges Field
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William J. Pruitt KaraS*
Henry A. Pendleton Blanket Gr
Faye Fowler phenix^,
Georgia A. Smith Sheet Finish**^)
Barbara W. Shoemake Laurelcrest CafP j
Harold C. Bailey Laurelcrest
Carole C. Byrd
Ruth N. Moody Laurelcrest
Lena S. Hart Kara" |
Howard Alford Laurelcrest Cafr,
Shirley A. Broadnax Kars^.4
Thomas P. Lawrence Draper Sheef*,
David Lee Lofton General Offtf
Virginia H. Brown Blanket Finish'
Carlo Agostini Fieldcrest Mills International- -
Jessie M. Shaw Laurelcrest Car^.
Frances H. Roland Sheet Finish' j
Gaydell L. Tilley Forei^|{
Edna K. Trent
Joan W. Carter Bedspread Finish'.
Willie A. Baker Coluia
Doris L. Hall Fi®*
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Jeanette T. Bartell Laurelcrest
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Betty B. Todd Phenix ^
Carol G. Hopkins General On'^i
Katherine G. Nowell Laurelcrest Caf™
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