TH^ MILL WHISTLE '
Copyright, 1972, Fieldcrest Mills, Inc.
Eden, N. C. 27288
Issued Every Other Monday For Employees
and Friends of Fieldcrest Mills, Inc.
Q OTIS MARLOWE
GanrinGS ALIcl'wrRREN
LJvJLIUlJvJ[7 ASSOCIATE EDITOR
Member, International Association
of Business Communicators
REPORTING STAFF
Alexander Sheeting Mill Edna Bright
Automatic Blanket Plant Janice Ennis
Bedspread Finishing Mill Ann Midkiff
Bedspread Mill Edna Hopper
Blanket Finishing Mill Roslyn Henry
Blanket Mill Dovie Gilbert
Blanket Warehouse Geraldine Perkins
Columbus Towel Mill Mildred Newsome
Dallas Service Center Barbara Aldriege
Draper Sheeting Mill Ruth Minter
Fieldale Towel Mill Faye Warren
General Offices Gladys Holland
Katherine Manley
Karastan Mill Irene Meeks
Karastan Service Center Mary Stephens
Laurelcrest Carpets Carolyn Branch
Los Angeles Service Center .... Gwen Lawrence
Midwest Service Center Joan Mason
Mount Holly Barbara Herrin
Non-Woven Blanket Mill Hilda Gilley
Northeast Service Center Mary Kulpak
Sheet Finishing Mill Brenda May
Winchester Spinning Mill Ann Wilson
Worthville Spinning Mill Betty Callicutt
Vol. 30 Mon., March 6, 1972 No. 17
SERVICE
NNIVERSARIES
Forty-Five Years
Ina K. Henson Alexander Sheeting
Thirty-Five Years
Mary E. Farrar Columbus
Colonel D. Evans Karastan
Thirty Years
Thelma W. Powell Draper Sheeting
Ishmael Dew Draper Sheeting
Bennie Hairston Blanket
Twenty-Five Years
William O. Kennon Draper Sheeting
Garland E. Church .... Draper Sheeting
Raymond V. Setliff Fieldale
Audrey M. Belton Fieldale
Peachy V. Haynes Draper Sheeting
Katie R. Hankins Fieldcrest Store
Beatrice L. Shelton Fieldale
Eula R. Tilley Fieldale
Howard D. Higgs Draper Sheeting
Anne B. Biggs Sheet Finishing
Twenty Years
Robert L. Cox, Jr Blanket Finishing
David R. Barr Columbus
Edna Y. Hopper Bedspread
Fifteen Years
James R. Hensley Traffic
Blanche T. Merriman Fieldale
Jack L. Hovey Columbus
Goldie H. Martin Fieldale
Jerry W. Thrasher, Sr Columbus
Ten Years
James M. Brown Fieldcrest Store
Virgie E. Cheek Karastan
James H. Taylor Fieldale
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R. W. ROBARGE
D. T. SPENCER
J. A. SMITH
Master Mechanics Group Chooses Officers
R. W. Robarge, plant engineer at the
Foremost Screen Print plant, Stokes-
dale, is the new president of the En
gineers and Master Mechanics Associa
tion at Fieldcrest.
D. T. Spencer, superintendent of plant
services at the Blanket Mill, was elect
ed vice president and J. A. Smith, di
rector of mechanical engineering at the
Karastan Rug Mill, was named sec
retary.
The Engineers and Master Mechanics
Association was formed several y®®,
ago as an effort to further understa®
ing and cooperation between
of the central Engineering Departm®^j
and mill management personnel
Fieldcrest.
Members of the association
quarterly in the conference room at t
General Offices, Eden. The program ^
ually consists of a brief business
followed by a speaker on a topi®
common interest to the group.
In Karastan showroom, Jones Norman hands out booklets to teacher-intern^'
Teacher-Interns Visit Karastai^
A group of Mars Hill College educa
tion students, interning at Burton Grove
School in Eden, visited the Karastan
Rug Mill February 9. They were met
by Jones W. Norman, Leaksville person
nel manager, and toured the mill with
Edward Newman, Karastan training
coordinator, as guide.
The “teacher-intems”, all juniors,
are spending the entire semester at Bur
ton Grove in an experiment funded by
the Reynolds Foundation. The purpose
of the project is to study the advant
ages of doing practice teaching and tak
ing classes while actually working in
a school system. Burton Grove is
of two schools in North Carolina P
ticipating in the project.
In addition to their practice
the students are taking classes
by Dr. Blanche Norman, principm
Burton Grove School, and Mrs-
Therrell, Mars Hill instructor and
ordinator of the project. .
In discussing the purpose of .ji
visit to the Karastan Mill, Dr.
said, “We are trying to acquaint tP j,
with the economic base of the comm^
ty just as we would other new tea®P
coming into the school system.”
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