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ijens, Greece, follows up on a
’‘■jninute request for an entry
■'K and information about the
“nament.
Possible favorite in the warp
''ision will be the 1973 winner,
Uwrence of Dixie Yarns,
" he can win his own com-
y ohampionship.
-Another 1973 champion,
Teale of Cannon Mills,
of the filling division
, tet, will not be eligible for
*976 tournament because he
as Ao'^^’^'^ment, because he
been promoted and is no
a “working
■^“''ding to the rules.
P b incomplete canvas of
I hcipating companies
^cates that more women are
ij,, 'ament
i^ament
in the 1976
than in the first
, — three years ago.
. ® Hawkins, of Mayfair Mills,
lady contender in the 1973
jlrg bboent is back this time and
jf b^.y a division winner,
UsB.bb'og to Bill Peebles, com-
y coordinator.
({j^.bbon Mills Company
that three out of four
pants at the company’s
b 16 were women and the
k scored first and second,
bcr they can go to take it all
bins to be seen.
Ate,
Crs
bipionships, a woman, Mary
lost out in semi-finals to
ill. bt Blackwell after winning
„ I*" home ground in Revolu-
lojpone Mills Corp., where 138
vying for company
'JOll
Plant
Babe Kimbrell is fastest filling doffer at Alexander.
Tracy Giibert is Alexander’s warp doffing champion.
^omoted Tanzanian Visits Fieldcrest New Foreman
Elmira priddy
K
promotion of Elmira M.
^sl-by to general foreman of the
Department at the
Mill has been an-
Cb'"cad
cCed, effective recently.
Priddy first
;i,^c
Priddy first joined
‘crest in 1944 as a battery
C ib the Bedspread Mill
Room. She worked in that
Cbity for the next eight
IjP was transferred to the
i^cting Department in 1952
Hi.i^orked on virtually every
the department, including
(lector, production recorder
y loader, quality coordinator
jpssistant foreman.
was named a shift
ijpan in 1970 and continued in
J classification until her
'bt promotion.
'^’^DAY, MARCHS, 1976
Fieldcrest was host recently to
a most . interesting and
distinguished visitor. His name
is Uledi Faraji. He is from the
African country of Tanzania,
where he is a personnel training
officer with National Textile
Industries Co., Ltd.
Under the sponsorship of the
United Nations, Mr. Faraji is
spending several months in the
United States visiting various
industries and taking personnel
training courses to increase his
knowledge of personnel
management interviewing,
selection, training manpower
development and industrial
relations.
He spent a week in the
Fieldcrest Industrial Relations
Department, studying the com
pany’s personnel policies and
practices.
Mr. Faraji is one of a group of
seven Tanzanians from various
industries who are participating
in the UN progranf. On leaving
Fieldcrest, he will spend a week
in Raleigh in the State Personnel
Department then a week at Dan
River, Inc., in Danville. Va.
He will then return to the
University of Connecticut at
Hartford for the remaining
weeks of his stay in the U.S. He
H^s^.^Ready spent several
months at the university taking
personnel courses.
u V'u ^®"zanian said that he
f ad begun to get very homesick
for his wife, Asxi, and their six
who range in age from
14 to four The family lives in a
city of about 500,000. and Mr.
Uledi Faraji, center, observes Fleldcrest’s computer-based per
sonnel records system operated by Laura Horsley, personnel data
control clerk. At right is R. L. Moore, regional personnel manager.
Faraji says that life there is not
very different from life here.
One difference he noted was
that no one there drives large
cars such as Americans do.
Tanzania does not import many
cars from the U.S. because,
“they are too large and consume
too much petrol.’’
Mr. Faraji holds a diploma
Charles C. Perdue, Jr., has
been named a shift foreman in
the Carding and Spinning
Department at the Bedspread
Mill, effective recently.
He joined Fieldcrest in 1972 as
a stock man in the Canteen
Department. Later that year, he
became a vending machine
serviceman. He joined the
Fieldcrest supervisory training
program in November, 1975.
A native of Martinsville, Va.,
he was previously employed as a
supervisor by Southeast
Vendors, Inc., of Danville, Va.
He is married and the father of
two children.
from the Mzumbe Secondary
School in Tanzania and received
his education in business
administration in Italy. He and
his fellow Tanzanians will return
to their country on April 16,
hopefully taking back with them
some useful techniques which
can be applied there.