Customer Groups Make Karastan Visits
Above, G. Fried & Son visitors are
shown with Karastan officials. From
left, E. N. Sedell, head designer, Karas
tan; Leo Wiland, Sylvan Nash, J. B.
Reynolds, staff assistant, Karastan;
Stanley Kleinman, William Trinceri;
Bernard Bock, Arthur Macy, Robert P.
Fex, Karastan salesman; and J. M. Nor
man, Jr., manager, Karastan Mill.
At right, Willis Wayside Furniture
group with Karastan men. From left to
right are Lawrence Tyree, installation
supervisor; Earl Vowel, rug buyer;
Roger L. Manning, Karastan salesman;
John Willis, one of the firm’s owners;
and J. B. Reynolds, Karastan Mill staff
assistant.
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Three customer groups, accompanied
by the Karastan salesmen serving the
accounts, were recent visitors at the
Karastan Mill. Each group spent a day
in touring the mill and the new Karas
tan Service Center, seeing all manu
facturing operations.
Making visits here, in separate parties,
were the managers of G. Fried & Son
stores in New York, accompanied by
Robert P. Fex, Karastan salesman; the
rug buyer, workroom manager, and
members of the sales staff of Straw-
bridge & Clothier, Philadelphia, accom
panied by C. J. Henry, Karastan sales
man; and officials from Willis Wayside
Furniture, Norfolk, Va., accompanied by
Roger L. Manning, Karastan salesman.
The visitors met members of the gen
eral management of Fieldcrest Mills,
Inc., as well as officials of the Karastan
Mill. The customers were conducted on
tours of the General Offices building and
visited the new Fieldcrest Store.
Picture at left shows visitors from
Strawbridge & Clothier in showToom at
mill. From left are C. J. Henry, Karas
tan salesman; Mrs. B. Gullo, rug sales
woman; D. Lightcap, rug salesman; H.
Everington, workroom manager; Dan
Ilurlie, E. Tropp, Louis Erickson, rug
salesmen; W'arren White, rug buyer; E.
Slurren, rug salesman; and J. B. Rey
nolds, of Karastan Mill.
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