HARRY R. HYLTON
PERCY C. PHARIS
CALVIN K. WILLARD
Three Complete Long Service
Three employees have been
honored by Fieldcrest marage-
ment in recent weeks on com
pletion of 40 years of continuous
service with the company. They
are Harry R. Hylton. Blanket
Greige Mill; Percy C. Pharis,
Blanket Finishing Mill; and
Calvin K. Willard, Draper
Sheeting Mill.
Each employee has received
the Fieldcrest 40-year service
emblem, a $40 gift certificate for
company merchandise, and a
letter of commendation from
William C. Battle, president of
Fieldcrest Mills, Inc.
Mr. Hylton began employment
on July 21, 1936, as a quill
collector in the Weaving
Department at the Blanket
Greige Mill. Working in that
department for all of his 40 years
of service, he became a weaver,
his present classification, in
1939.
Mr. Pharis, a dryer tender at
the Blanket Finishing Mill,
began continuous service July
20, 1936, as a weaver at the old
Synthetic Fabrics Mill although
he had earlier worked at the old
Rhode Island Mill, the Draper
Sheeting Mill and the old
Synthetic Fabrics Mill.
Working at that mill as a loom
fixer and briefly as a weaver
until 1957, he then worked for
short periods at the Karastan
Rug Mill, Bedspread Mill and
the old Automatic Blanket Mill
until 1%1 when he went to the
Blanket Finishing Mill as a wet
machines dyer and dryer
operator in the Beck Dyeing
Department. Since that time he
has worked in several
production jobs, including dryer
tender, his present classi
fication.
Mr. Willard, a section foreman
in the Weave Room at the
Draper Sheeting Mill, began
continuous service on July 22,
1936. He has worked in the
Weave Room at that mill for all
of his 40 years of service with the
company.
During his service, he has
worked in various production
jobs including loom cleaner,
battery filler, weaver,
breakdown man and loom fixer.
He was an assistant foreman,
before being named a shift
foreman in 1967. He was
appointed a section foreman, his
present classification, in 1970.
Service Center Has Display
At Bicentennial Festival
Fieldcrest's Northeast Service Center at Piscataway. N. J.. re
cently participated in the Piscataway Expo '76 Bicentennial fes
tival with a display and costumed employees.
More than 60 displays were featured at the event which was
held at the Piscataway High School. It was sponsored jointly by
the Bicentennial Commission, the Cultural Arts Commission and
the Board of Education.
The Fieldcrest display included a representative grouping of
the company’s products along with printed material about the com
pany.
In addition to the industrial displays, exhibitors included anti
que displays, handicrafts, ethnic exhibits, a display of colonial
dolls, colonial foods, an historical collage, and an environmental
display.
Sid Norvell, office manager,
and Stephanie Nixon, inventory
controller, in their Bicentennial
costumes which they wore
during the Bicentennial
Festival.
The Northeast Service Center display.
Receives OHN
Certification
Gloria Hilton, RN, of the
Fieldcrest Medical Department,
has received certification as an
occupational health nurse by the
American Board for Occupa
tional Health Nurses, Inc.
To be eligible for certification,
the board requires five years of
experience in occupational
health nursing, 45 hours of
classwork in management and
industrial nursing and satisfac
tory completion of an eight-hour
written examination, offered
once each year.
Mrs. Hilton, a graduate of the
University of North Carolina at
Greensboro, Schooi of Nursing,
has been on the staff of the
Fieldcrest Medical Department
since 1972. A native of
Lexington, she had previously
worked at Rex Hospital in
Raleigh, and as an industrial
nurse at Celenese Corporation,
Greer, S.C.
The American Board for
Occupational Health Nurses is
an independent nursing
specialty board authorized to
certify properly qualified
occupational health nurses.
Its functions include the
establishment of standards and
examinations for professional
GLORIA HILTON
nurse certification ,
occupational health nursing; ®
certification of licensed F
fessional nurses; and
maintenance of a roster ■
holders of certificates gra>’‘
by the Corporation. .
The board also has goals
the elevation and maintena'’'
of the quality of occupa
health nursing service,
development of impro'’
educational standards
programs in the field
occupational health nursing; ,
encouragement of occupatij
health nurses to continue d’
tt
professional education; and
means of identifying individa®
who meet certificat"'
standards.
Service Anniversaries
Forty Years
Alma Leonard N. C. Finisl"
Percy C. Pharis Blanket Finist’I,
Harry R. Hylton Blanket Gf^l
Calvin K. Willard .....' Draper She^*',
Thirty-Five Years ..
Otto J. Brinkley. Jr N. C. Finis*"j
Charlie A. Griffin, Jr N. C. Finish
Thirty Years J
Grant James
Evelyn A. Smith Fiel>
J. James Boyd Blanket Gr*|-
Mack L. Litaker Blanket Finis'"
John W. Hylton Karastan Service Ce";
Robert L. Powell Blanket Greig®^
Twenty Years ,
Dwight A. Wilkinson Fie^.|
Geraldine W. Britt Pheni)^
Velma P. Rachels Colui”"
Sallie M, Bell Phenix"'
Ray Revels Colui^J
Elizabeth B. Sapp Kaf^ ,
Eva M. Crouch Bedspt"'
Fifteen Years
Lucille K. Baker Kan""
Thomas E. Boyce
Clarence E Craig P’iel'*
Ivadell H. Pratt
C. Douglas Adams Fie't
Richard P. Nippes Delaware V"'
Ten Years j
Marie H. Hall Sheet Finis’’.^
Melvin A. .lones Draper Shen*'
Eva P. Baker F'oref'’,|
Bobby N. Pruitt Blanket Gr"^
Glenn 1). Barbour Automatic
Joyce T. Puckett Blanket Wareh";|
Patricia A. Shropshire Bedspread Finis'"
Jerine FL Hall Draper She"*
William T. Walton Fiel'*'
Bobby Lee Hampton Blanket Gi""^
Richard C. Stout Fiel^j
Doris M. McKenzie Phenix
Joyce G, Crocker Blanket Wareh",
Robert H. Mabe Kan"".
William .Mumpower. .Ir Bedsp"j
Gilbert Martin Forcd’
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