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Employees at the Blanket Greige JVIill who have perfect attendance for five years
or more are, left to right, Sanford Odell, six years; Wallace Warf, five years; Johnny
Barher, 11 years; Virgil Cochran, six years; and Luther Meadows, seven years.
Blanket Group Has Outstanding Attendance
Five employees at the Blanket Greige
Mill have achieved perfect attendance
records of five years or more through
1972. They are Sanford Odell, Non-
Woven; Wallace Warf, Shop; Johnny
Barber, Cotton Spinning; Virgil Coch
ran, Weave; and Luther Meadows,
Shop. The employees were congratu
lated on their outstanding attendance
records by W. F. Crumley, plant man
ager.
An a^dditional 48 Blanket Greige em
ployees were also congratulated by Mr.
Crumley on achieving perfect attend
ance during 1972.
Those with perfect attendance dur
ing 1972 are: John Irving Minter, Flock.
ing;Ananias Abbott, James Alley and
James Broadnax, Dye House; David
Harris, George Johnson, Adolph Moyer
and Mac Griggs, Wool Picking; Robert
Abbott and Bethel Carter, Wool Card
ing; Ruby Thomas and Alvin Harris,
Wool Spinning.
Also, Ernest Cannon, Henry Hairs
ton and Rawley Turner, Yarn Prepara-
ton; Ernest H. Cannon and John Mill-
ner. Yard; Tom Artis, Clarence Bowl
ing and Talmadge Powell, Cotton Card
ing; Sam Howell, Ruby Cockman, Mary
Hatcher and Lenwood Kizer, Cotton
Spinning.
Also, James Eastwood, John Hamp
ton, Ernest Lawson, Reuben Millner,
Quesell Scott, George Frazier, Woodrow
LaPrad, Charles Lillard, James Mill
ner, Herbert Stanley and Robert Pow
ell, Shop; Clarence Boyd, John Can
non, Gorman Stevens, Clarence Eth
ridge, Thelma Pruitt, Robert Stump,
Luther Patterson, Buford Bateman,
Bruce Powell, Clyde Trollinger, Roy
Law, Mozelle Sumner and Henry Pen
dleton, Weave.
Corry Named Stokesdale Personnel Manager
Jesse D. Corry, Jr., joined Field-
crest Mills on March 1 as area person
nel manager at Foremost Screen Print
Plant, Stokesdale.
Mr. Corry, counselor at Salisbury
High School and Knox Junior High
School in Salisbury since 1970, is a
graduate of Livingstone College and has
done graduate work at North Carolina
College and Virginia State College.
Prior to his position as counselor at
Salisbury High School and Knox Jun
ior High School, he was deputy director
of the Salisbury-Rowan Community
Service Council.
Active in numerous community activ
ities, Mr. Corry has served on the board
of directors and as treasurer and man
ager of the Rowan County teachers
Credit Union, president of the West
Rowan High School PTA, president of
the Rowan Chapter of the North Car
olina Teachers Association, and presi
dent of the Negro Civic League. He is
a member of the American Personnel
and Guidance Association and the Fed
eration of Scottish Rite Masons.
Mr. Corry is also a basketball official
JESSE D. CORKY, JR.
on the high school and college level and
is a member of the International Bask
etball Officials Association. He says he
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Copyright, 1973, FieMcrest Mills, Inc.
Eden, N. C. 27288
Issued Every Other Monday For Employeet
and Friends of Fieldcrest Mills, Inc.
o
OTIS MARLOWE
EDITOR
CAMILLE F. PERKINS
^ ASSOCIATE EDITOR
Member, International Association
of Business Communicators ..
Vol. 31 Mon., March 5, 1973 No. 1'^
REMINDER
Children of employees wishing to ap'
ply for a Fieldcrest Foundation educa
tional grant are reminded that requests
must be submitted at least a month and
a half prior to the date a course or
program is to begin.
The cutoff period has been establish
ed by the grant committee in order to
more effectively evaluate the grant ro-
quests.
For example, if a course is to begio
in January, the application for a grant
must be made by November 15 in order
to be processed by the educational grant
committee.
Those wishing to apply for an edu
cational grant are urged to do so aS
far in advance as possible. ^
ERVICE
nniversaries
Fifty Years
Terrell M. Fulcher Fieldal®
Forty-Five Years
Marshall O. Meeks Blanket Finish-
Forty Years
Joseph S. Griffin Columbus
James L. Howard Columbus
Nise Griffin Blanket Greig®
Thirty Years
Nathan E. Burnette Blanket Greig®
Carrie W. Payne KarasteU
Mandluff A. Wilson Blanket Greig®
Beulah I. Denson Columbu®
Bessie T. Smith Fieldal®
Tom Artis Blanket Greig®
Twenty-Five Years
Herbert L. Isley Blanket Whs®-
Clarence E. Pilson KarastaU
Twenty Years
Markes L. Yeomans Columbus
Carl A. Wortham Mech. Devet-
Jasper S. Overby Karastad
Fifteen Years
Richard E. Bishop Fieldal®
Ten Years
Marie Morgan ColumbuS
W. Rex Ramsey Fielda^®
Carlotta D. Hale Blanket Greig®
James W. Gibson Blanket Fini^
expects to continue officiating at bask
etball games on the college level. .
Mr. Corry’s family will remain, ®
least temporarily, in Salisbury and Mr®;
Corry will continue in her teachiu®
position at Overton Elementary School
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