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1 t PAGE EIGHT- THE WAYNES VILLE . MOUNTAINEER . si f4 :.1 I 1 I, 1 t W j ,. Candid Photos M adeln And Around Newport Shipya iimmwiiifo;iti:ii),;iiifi'iTrr-nTir y i I ' J' ,tO'' m"pii."v...i. ....... v.. , yU: . T'rrirtMiiMMaftMiiiiigiiiif-- - C 1 ? ;r' ... ' "'""" HI IIW - - --immmmZLii I."""'" " rMiMKuSi Mr Ferguson stands wiih pcviy at the launching of freight and passenger ship March 5, 1930. Sponsor: Miss Ruth Eleanor .Mooiuv, daughter of Franklin D. Mooney, president of the Ward line. Maids of honor: Miss Esther Gurney and Miss Hetty Sayre. '?i j Lanching of Cruiser HOUSTON. September 7, 1929. Mr. Ferguson, second from left, Governor Byrd of Virginia, fourth from left. Sponsor: Miss Elizabeth Holcombe, daughter of a former mayor of Houston, Texas. Matron of honor: Miss Mary Bute. ! Ml ' 14 14 5 V-l;nVll '.' 'ii fer St ' .. &J Launching of n.oior yacht DOLPHIN, biult in Nc.vport News, for Mortimer L. Schiff on April 8, 1922. Sponsor: Miss Alice L. Cox. niece of owner. Mrs. H. L. Ferguson on left; Mr. F. P. Palen, vice presi dent of the shipyard, second from the left. t .i mini i mmW ami m "" " - mmljmmmm-mmmm, Freight and passenger ship. SAINT JOHN, for Eastern Steamship company, launched January 9th 1932. Sponsor: ?.Irs. Robert G. Stone; Matron of Honor: Mrs. Charles Barnes and Mrs. Eugene O'Don nell. Mr. Ferguson stands at the right. - u n i-Biiajj-rii i l i ..r.,Mf-r i t iMiiwniri iwi Passenger and freight CITY OF BIRMINGHA M, Mr. Ferguson, middle row, tecond froni left. Jt was launched October 30, 1923. Sponsor: Miss Rose Duncan Smith, Birmingham, Alamaba. , Homer L. Ferguson Born In Wapesvil le In 1873 Homer L. Ferguson was born at I , , , Waynesville, on March 6, 1873. At I served as president, and he has the age of fifteen he entered the I ?lso. se'ved as Presldent of ,the U. S. Naval Academy and gradual-! National Conuc.l of American Snip ed at the head of his class in 1882. 1 buefs , His education was continued at I While Mr. Ferguson ranks at the Glasgow University 1892-1895. I lP ,n shipbuilding and as an out- As Assistant Naval Constructor standing industrial leader in busi he was at the Columbian Iron ! "ess management, he has probably Works, Baltimore, Maryland, 1395-j been most "'rested m providing 1896; at the Navv Yard, Portland, opportunities for people who are Oregon. 1896-1899; the Navy Yard, I ambitious to do worthwhile work. Bremerton, Washington, 1899-1900; j As, a resuU of this Purpose, a very at the Bath, Maine, Iron Works aS extens!ve tranmg program is in Superintending Naval Constructor, Pcrat'n at the Newport News 1900-1902; the Newport News Ship- plant' "ot onlv for bys and 'oun!? building and Drv Dock Company, n' bu' fof ,thor employees, both Newport News, Virginia, 1902-1904; 'hlte and b,ack mon that ey may and with the Bureau of Construe-1 ""'"f ,""'CM'" ueveiop cnaracier, ior ne says, (Joocl ships ideals of the Old South, of the i "We shall build good ships here Navy, and of the great shipbuilding! At a profit if we can organization at Newport News,! At a loss if we must whose slogan for over foity years' But always good ships." has been an excerpt from a lettc r ( . of instructions the founder, Collis Plotter Huntington, wrote, ' Use The Want Ads For Results i,i"oiy..;:1',.,M,i -,rer" in 4 icon.: V 01 tion and Reoair, Washington, D. C 1904-1905. In 1905 Mr. Ferguson resigned from the U. S. Navy and became Assistant Superintendent of Con struction for the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Com pany at Newport News, Virginia. During the next ten years, as Su perintendent and later as General Manager, he not only built up the physical property of the plant and improved methods of operation, but strengthened the personnel chiefly by the development of the young men in the organization, and he firmly established a loyalty and esprit de corps which continues to be a marked characteristic of the Newport News Yards. He was President and General Manager of the Company from 1915 to July, 1946. For several years during the World War period, the plant at Newport News worked at maximum capacity, making a notable contri bution by building, reconditioning, and repairing ships for the govern ment. Addtional equipment, shops, and shipways were provided, and the three dry docks were used con tinually, over a thousand vessels being dry docked in a twelve-month period. Following the World War and, later, the Disarmament Con ference, several years of depression came to the shipbuilding business. Mr. Ferguson and his organization met this situation by successfully developing new lines of business for the plant, so that the company is now almost as fully a recognized leader in other business as in ship building. Much of the equipment for large hydro-electric develop ments is built at Newport News, some of them being the Muscle Shoals, Conowingo, and the Dnie prostroy in Soviet Russia. Mr. Ferguson has served his country, state and the community in which he lives in many capaci ties. He was President of the United States Chamber of Com merce, 1919 - 1920, and is a member of the National Foreign Trade Council, a member of the State Port Authority of Virginia. He is a member of the Board of Visitors of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute; a Trustee of Carnegie In stitute; President and Trustee of the Mariners' Museum; President of the First National Bank, New port News; Director in a number of corporations, including the State-Planters Bank and Trust Company of Richmond, the Chesa peake and Potomac Telephone Company of Virginia, and the En gineers Public Service Corporation of New York. He is a member of the Academy of Political Science, the Society of Naval Engineers, the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, of which he can only be built by men of good character." Mr. Ferguson is a citizen of whom any country might well be proud. He exemplifies the fine inr. rerguson presiues ai ine launcning oi ireignt ana passenger ship CHIRtni i mi ,f 1, ' fm 01 lO'il f .... Tnit.. rmn-tnnmr C . TV T .... T T IJT r - , "oi, !ji uiuuu i uii luiiiijaiy. ojjunoui . iviis ji. ucu i is itoDson; Matron ()f hotl nu'i- mayor nf ew yl r W' . The USS INDIANA, capital battleship built in Newport News and launched in 1941. the Atlantic and Pacific theatres added further prestige to the name of her builders. Her World War II ser i-aaai45s The AMERICA goes down the way at Newport News after Mrs. Roosevelt cracked the traditional bottle i champagne on her bow. .... :.":': : ; if .. rv , t r , ' ' r -. ,k The YORKTOWN I, or the "Flghttag Udy Most Famous o( the Airplane Carrier Built by Homer ..L. W". 1
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