December, 1963
OLIN CORPORATION
Vol. XV, No. 12
Values For Living
By Torn Haggai
You are reading this while you must
be foot weary, head weary and body
weary. All businesses seem to accel
erate before Christmas — then the
Christmas parties — kids in church
music — gifts to buy — tree to trim
— money to spend. If we are not
careful we can almost destroy the
Christmas spirit before Christmas Day
arrives. So I’ve chosen some thoughts
that I hope may help rescue your
Christmas.
Gerald Bath, of St. Augustine, Flor
ida, relates one of his favorite stories
as being that of a missionary teacher
in Africa. Before Christmas, he told
his native students how Christians, as
an expression of their joy, gave each
other presents on Christ’s birthday. On
Christmas morning, one of the natives
brought the missionary a seashell of
lustrous beauty. When asked where he
had discovered such a beautiful shell,
the native replied he had walked many
miles to a certain bay, the only spot
where such shells could be found. I
think it was wonderful of you to travel
so far to get this lovely gift for me,”
the teacher exclaimed. His eyes bright
ening, the native answered, "Long
walk, part of gift.”
Another beautiful story on the very
true art of giving concerns compassion.
An American journalist was covering a
savage area of fighting in Vietnam
and came upon an advanced medical
post where a nurse was preparing a
wounded man for surgery. The man
was bloody and filthy but the nurse
went about her errand of mercy with-
Merry Christmas To All From Olin
broken dream I cannot wind. If I had
come to Him before, And laid them
on the stable floor, Not scratched and
finger-marked with sin, How new and
gay they would have been! Yet strange
things catch a Baby's eyes — There in
His Hand my frayed heart lies. " Never
be afraid of giving up your best, and
God will give you His better. As
Thoreau so beautifully expressed it: "A
man is rich in proportion to the things
Twelve Employees
Complete Thirty
Years Service
The following employees become eli
gible for Service Clubs during the
month of December, 1969.
he can do without. Sell your goods
and keep your thoughts. Each of us;
has a contribution to make to life; ours m
is the task of discovering what that is
and doing it with a willing, generous
spirit.
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ness and skill, the ri
softly, "Sister, I we dn’t do that for
a million dollars.” The nurse, without
stopping her busy fingers for a mo
ment, replied even softer, "Brother,
neither would I.” It is wisely said that
"The glory of life is to love, not to be
loved; to give, not to get; to serve, not
to be served; to be a strong hand in
the dark to another in the time of
need; to be a cup of strength to any
soul in a crisis of weakness. This is
to know the Glory of Life.” Mary H.
Dwyer wrote a lovely little poem,
"Toys For A King” which we should
take note of during this gift-buying sea
son. "What gifts to please a little
Boy, Who has the whole world for His
toy? Through Him, with Him, and
in Him, live, The lovely playthings I
would give. Black branches traced on
afterglow; Blue moonlight on the wind-
glazed snow; Music, and singing words
— but these, were always His. Upon
my knees, I cannot ask a King to
take, The stars He watched His Father
make. Here on the clean straw of His
Throne, I lay the only things I own —
A battered will, a raveled mind; a
and wonderful
you.
Tom Haggai
tel Townley" Finishing
- L. Batson Machine Room
rne L. Gash .... Machine Room
Marshall Ballard ...-... .--Maintenance
John P. Collins Machine Room
Joe McJunkin Refining
Thomas J. Stroup Machine Room
Film Will Operate
Message Center At
Potato Chip Show
A message center will be operated
for the twelfth consecutive year by the
Olin Film Division at the 33rd Annual
Potato Chip Institute International Con
ference and Exhibit. The show will
be held at the Shamrock Hilton Hotel,
Houston, Tex., from Feb. 1 through
Feb. 6.
The Olin Message Center will be
conveniently located just inside the en
trance to the exhibit. Visitors can
receive and post messages on a bulletin
board, and Olin will provide a staff to
receive incoming telephone messages
and enable show goers to call outside
the hotel on a direct line. The latest
world and financial news will be pro
vided at the center by a teleprinter
from one of the wire services.
Information on Olin products and
services of special interest to potato
chippers also will be available at the
Olin display. This will include mate
rial and samples relating to "V” 5,
polymer coated cellophane, and PCG,
polymer coated glassine. Also available
will be information on Olin’s "Red
Briefcase” line' of customer services,
such as' the’ publicity, recipe develop
ment and packaging design services.
Film division personnel attending
will include:
G. W. McCleary - Director of mar
keting; D. E. Chaney - Southern re
gional manager; D. R. Dehon - Assist
ant advertising and promotion mana
ger.
M. Ned Medford....
.Control
Thomas L. Conley Maintenance
25 YEARS
Lillie G. Galloway Finishing
George O. Taylor Storeroom
15 YEARS
Adam Justice .... .... Instrumentation
Harold E. Searcy
10 YEARS
Henry L. Jones ..
. Rod
Finishing
Charles E. Hudson . .. Shipping & Rec.
James W. Owen Inspection
John C. Corhn, Jr. Machine Room
5 YEARS
John H. Lambert . Plant Eng.
FILM DIVISION
30 YEARS
Hubert E. Batson Coating
William W. Gillespie Chemical
Fulton R. Holliday Chemical
BI-DIVISIONAL DEPARTMENTS
40 YEARS
William A. Hannan ... ... . Controllers
Personnel Changes
William M. Millner, Controller for
Olin’s Fine Paper and Film Group, re
cently made several appointments in
his department:
C. S. Cook was named Assistant to
Controller.
R. H. Dowis has assumed the duties
of Assistant Controller - Ecusta Finan
cial Analysis.
R. J. Nicholson became Assistant
Controller - Film Financial Analysis.
Walker Millner was appointed Su
pervisor - Manufacturing Cost Ac
counting, reporting to Mr. Nicholson.
C. S. Bolt, Financial Analyst, will
work for Mr. Nicholson in Film Finan
cial Analysis.
According to George A. Wallace,
Director of Marketing, Fine Papers, R.
N. Bailey has been named Marketing
Services Manager. As such, Mr. Bailey
has assumed responsibility for Sales
Service, Advertising and Sales Promo
tion, Technical Service, Distribution
Development and Market Planning.
The managers or supervisors of those
functions will report directly to Mr.
Bailey who in turn will be responsible
to the Director of Marketing, Fine
Papers.
R. E. Matthews, Director of Market
ing, Tobacco Industry Products, an
nounced the appointment of John R.
Thompson to National Manager, To
bacco Industry Products. Reporting to
Mr. Thompson will be J. W. Town
send and Mrs. Peggy Toole.