Issued every Two Weeks by and for
the Employees of Fieldcrest Mills,
Division of Marshall Field & Company,
Inc., Spray, North Carolina.
VOLUME FIVE
NUMBER FOURTEEN
MONDAY, JANUARY 20, 1947
Receive Promotions in Fieldcrest Sales Organization
P-
Dr. William McGeheie
Assumes Duties Here
Dr. William McGehee, formerly head
of the department of psychology at
North Carolina State College, Raleigh,
joined Fieldcrest Mills January 1 as di
rector of personnel research.
He is conducting investigations in the
fields of selection, training, job evalua
tion, and industrial relations problems,
a work he has been doing for the Com
pany on a consulting basis since last
August. His headquarters are in the
Personnel Office, Nantucket Building.
Dr. McGehee is well known in his
field and the Company is considered for
tunate in securing the services of a man
of his qualifications. He is a native .of
Tennessee and received his A. B. degree
ARTHUR THOMPSON
Former Local Man
Is Made Assistant
General Sales Mgr.
Lawson Ivie Spent First
20 Years With Company
In North Carolina Mills;
Thompson Moves U‘p.
Promotions in the Fieldcrest Mills
sales and merchandising organizations at
88 Worth street. New York City, have
been announced by Luther H. Hodges,
general manager.
G. Lawson Ivie, formerly sales mana
ger for domestics, has been appointed
assistant general sales manager of all
the Fieldcrest Mills group, consisting of
11 mills of Marshall Field & Company
of which the Fieldcrest Mills is a divi
sion.
Arthur S. Thompson, formerly assist
ant domestics sales manager, has been
appointed as sales manager of all the
Fieldcrest- domestic lines — namely,
blankets, sheets, lace tablecloths, bed
spreads and towels.
Both of these men report to R. T. Gra
ham, general sales manager.
Lawson Ivie has been with the Field-
LAWSON IVIE
crest Mills since 1916, working for the
first 20 years in the mills in North Caro
lina and going to New York City as mer
chandise manager in 1936. He was made
domestics sales manager in 1938.
Arthur Thompson is well known at
Spray and Fieldale through his frequent
visits. He joined the Fieldcrest Mills in
1930 in the towel department, became
manager of the towel department in
1938, and in 1941 was appointed assstant
domestics sales manager. His home is in
Nutley, N. J.
As announced by Mr. Hodges in a
company notice just released, “All of
these promotions and changes are of
long service men and represent a con
tinuance of our plan to build a strong,
hard-hitting ‘team’ to handle the many
difficult and challenging problems of
merchandising and selling that are im
mediately ahead of us.”
A native of Stoneville, Mr. Ivie is the
son of the late Dr. George Mebane Ivie
and Mrs. G. L. Graveley of Hamilton
street. Mr. Ivie receved his education in
the public schools of Leaksville and his
business training at Richmond, Va. In
April, 1916, he began work in the old
Athena knitting mill in Leaksvlle, his
first job being a knitting machine oper-
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DR. McGEHEE
at Sewanee College in 1929. He was
football coach and teacher in the public
schools of Doneldson, Tenn., for several
years.
He did graduate work at Duke univer
sity and at the University of North Caro
lina, Chapel Hill, and received his mas
ter’s degree at George Peabody College,
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