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THE MILL WHISTLE
May 27, 1946
The
MILL WHISTLE
The Manufacturing Division has presented the Textile School at State College
with rugs for the dean’s office and the conference room. Dean Malcolm E. Camp
bell, right, is shown making his selections at the Karastan rug mill. Virgil Hall,
superintendent of the mill, is shown at left. Dean Campbell addressed the Carolina
Cooperative Council at its regular meeting May 16 and spent the following day here
visiting the various mills.
Training Department
Is Host To Visitors
Work Simplification Group
Observes Production Methods
At Blanket and Karastan
The Training Department was host to
representatives from leading industrial
firms in several states who visited the
Manufacturing Division Thursday and
Friday, May 16-17, to observe produc
tion methods.
The visitors started arriving Wednes
day night and Thursday morning set
out on an extensive program arranged
by Training Director L. E. Richards.
They spent most of the day in the
Blanket mill, had luncheon with the Y’s
Men’s Clubs, .met with Blanket mill
foremen in the late afternoon and end
ed the day with an evening session
at the Lodge at Fieldale, with E. G.
Michaels, personnel assistant, as chair
man.
Friday was devoted to a series of
appointments with Marshall Field ex
ecutives and department heads and a
tour of the Karastan rug mill. The
group had luncheon at Meadow Greens
country club, met with Karastan fore
men, then went back to the Lodge where
they heard an address by A. H. Mogen-
cen. New York, industrial consultant
and noted work simplification author
ity.
Mogensen, who conducts the Work
Issued Every Two Weeks By and For the Employees of
MARSHALL FIELD & COMPANY
MANUFACTURING DIVISION
SPRAY, NORTH CAROLINA J. U. NEWMAN JR., Editor
DEAN CAMPBELL SELECTING RUGS
Many Employees
Benefited By
Training Program
The recent war has proved the value
of training. Thousands of Americans
were compelled by circumstances that
only war can provide to develop new'
skills with which they learned to sur
vive and to produce. Men learned how
to live under fire and to protect them
selves; mean learned to survive and
live under extreme temperatures; and
men learned to produce the weapons of
war at a rate never excelled. These
skills did not come naturally but were
developed and matured through train
ing programs.
Having proved its value, training and
its functions are being continued by a
majority of the outstanding companies
because they realize that, economically,
training must be done. The Marshall
Field & Company Training Department
has been in existence since July 15,
1945, and is therefore comparatively
new. The objective of this department
is: “To develop employees through
training m,ediums, and to aid in pro
ducing our goods in the easiest and best
ways through work simplification.”
Thus, the Training Department is a ser
vice department functioning under M.
P. Miller, Director of Industrial and
Public Relations. The staff consists of
Lawrence E. Richards, E. G. Michaels,
on loan from the Personnel Department,
and Miss Della Hawkins, secretary and
part-time instructor.
The courses which have been conduct
ed are: Instructor Training, Public
Speaking, Work Simplification, Super
visory Training, Journalism, Business
English, Functions of Textile Machin
ery, and Physical Testing of Fabrics
and Yarn.
In the fall of this year, the Training
Department plans to work in conjunc
tion with the Vocational School in a
program designed to fit the needs of-
all employees.
Simplification Institute at Lake Placid,
N. Y., played a prominent part on the
visitation program, as did Abner Rob
ertson, who is on the Institute’s staff.
During his visit here Mogensen met
with all the various groups which have
completed work in the work simplifica
tion program.
All the visiting group were training
executives from their respective com
panies who have attended the Institute
at Lake Placid. The following men from
the Manufacturing Division are alumni
of the Institute: Richards, Michaels, F.
M. Holmes, Jr., head of the Wage Bu
reau; F. T. Suttenfield, assistant super
intendent of the Finishing mili; and D.
A. Purcell, superintendent of the
Blanket and Sheeting mills.