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3 UNITED WAY (cont’d) chairmen called on for help in effecting a campaign of total par ticipation. “We feel that the three co-chair men are to be commended not only for the success of the drive but for the orderly and pleasant way in which the drive was con ducted;” Baldwin said. Judith Robinson and James H. McIlwain were in charge of salaried employees’ solicitation. Edwin R. Owen, treasurer of Local 1971, was co-chairman representing hourly employees. All but 33 of the approximately 2,600 pledge cards distributed were returned. Pewter commerative bowls made especially for the Bicentennial Year were awarded the three co-chair men of the 1976 United Way drive, following their report that employee contributions were at an all-time high. They expressed praise for the willingness of solicitors to contact employees on behalf of the United Way, and to follow through to assure MERRELL BECOMES NIRA SECRETARY FRITZ J. MERRELL ities supervisor, employee activ- has been elected secretary to the board of directors of the National In dustrial Recrea tion Assn., to be installed in Jan uary at a meeting of the organiza tion in Fort Laud erdale, Fla. He is a charter member of NI RA’s Certified Indus trial Recreation Administrators So ciety, and was elected to the NIRA board of directors in August 1971. that pledge cards were returned. All but a handfull of the cards were turned in. Left to right are James H. McIlwain; John S. Candler, di rector of employee and community relations; Edwin Owen; Garza Bald win, Jr., president of the Fine Paper and Film Group; and Judith Robin son. He has served also as vice president for program services with responsi bilities that included NIRA tourna ment management, member - com pany activities, master lists, re search and scholarships. He was chairman of the NIRA scholarship committee in 1972. Olin’s Pisgah Forest operations won NIRA’s Helms Foundation award in 1970 for the most out standing company programs in North America, for companies em ploying 2,000 to 5,000 persons. RETIRES Walter B. Krause, former di rector of sales training in the Film Division Marketing Depart ment, retired in October after a sales career that spanned 47 years. He joined Olin in February 1953 after having work ed 24 years with Muller Paper Goods of Long Island City. He covered almost every large ac count in the Northeast while with Olin, and from 1958 to 1966 he was head of the sales training program. A native of Milwaukee, he spent his early years in California and graduated from Jefferson High Schoo! in Los Angeles. He served with the U. S. Coast Guard during World War II. Claiming to be a Californian in exile, he will move from his present home in Morristown, N. J., to Con necticut, so that he and Mrs. Krause will be near their daughter and two grandchildren at least part of the year. They plan to spend winters in California. Their daughter, Mrs. Dorothy Miskimin, is on the food staff of Heublein in Hartford. Krause is a member of the Board of Stewards in Morristown’s United Methodist Church. His principal activities are golf and duplicate bridge.
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