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ROBERT H. MASENGILL has been
promoted to director of manufac
turing for Ecusta Paper. He had
served since June 1974 as Ecusta’s
assistant director of production.
With Olin since
June 1961 when
he joined Ecusta’s
Industrial Engi
neering Depart
ment, he has
served as super
visor of employee,
services, manager
of industrial en
gineering, and
manager of main
tenance and util
ities. In June 1974 he was named
manager of Ecusta’s Engineering,
Maintenance and Utilities Depart
ment, and a year later became as
sistant director of production. He
graduated from Demopolis High
School in his native Demopolis,
Ala., and earned his B.S. degree in
Industrial Engineering at the Uni
versity of Alabama. He was a mem
ber of Alpha Pi Mu honorary fra
ternity, Kappa Alpha social fratern
ity, and was vice president of the
student chapter of the American
Institute of Engineers. He grad
uated last April from the Executive
Program of the School of Busi
ness Administration at the Univers
ity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
He served four years with the U. S.
Navy as a jet pilot.
THOMAS H. CRAWFORD has been
appointed employee relations super
visor in the Employee and Com
munity Relations Department. He
joined Olin in November 1965 after
four years of service with the U. S.
Navy. He began
work as employee
insurance super
visor and in 1971
was named em
ployee benefits
supervisor. A na
tive of Knoxville,
he was educated
in public schools
at Maryville,
Tenn., and grad
uated with a B.A.
degree in Economics from Mary
ville College where he was a mem
ber of the basketball team. At grad
uation he was awarded the Bank of
Maryville Business Administration
Award. He completed N. C. State
University's “The Art and Science
of Professional Supervision,” one of
several developmental courses since
joining Olin.
F. GERALD HENSLEY has been ap
pointed senior accountant in the
Accounting Department. He joined
Olin in August 1961 and served in
the credit and payroll departments
before transfer
ring to general ac
counting in 1968.
He was accoun
tant in both Film
and Ecusta finan
cial analysis, and
was senior cost
accountant for
Ecusta prior to
this promotion.
He graduated
from Brevard
High School in his native Brevard
and entered Western Carolina Uni
versity’s In-Service program. He
graduated with a B.S. degree in Bus
iness Administration. Hensley is a
member of the National Association
of Accountants and has served as
assistant director of various posts
and currently serves as communi
cations director.
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DR. DONALD W. MONK has been
promoted to manager of Ecusta
Paper area engineers. He joined Olin
in October 1967 as a senior research
chemist and was promoted to re
search associate in 1971. Three
years later he was
appointed project
manager in the
Product and Pro
cessimprovement
Section of the
Technical Depart
ment. A native
of Newport News,
Va., he earned
his B. S. degree
in Chemistry at
Randolph Macon
College and his Ph.D. degree at Vir
ginia Polytechnic Institute. He was
vice president of Phi Lambda Up-
silon honorary chemical society and
was listed in American Men and
Women of Science. He was a post
doctoral Research Fellow at the
Institute of Colloid and Surface
Science, Clarkson College of Tech
nology. He is a member of Sigma
Xi honorary research society and
has served as secretary-treasurer
of the American Chemical Society’s
Western Carolinas Section.
PAMELA YVONNE McCRARY has
been employed as an Ecusta man
agement trainee.
She is a recent
graduate of Wes
tern Carolina Uni
versity where she
earned a B.S. de
gree in Busi
ness Administra
tion. She was a
campus radio an
nouncer, a mem
ber of the Order
of Diana social
club and Judicial Court, and par
ticipated in intermural swimming
and softball. A native of Miami,
Fla., she graduated from Miami
Coral Park High School.
***
THOMAS S. HELMS, JR., has been
promoted to quality control manager
for Ecusta Paper,
quality control
He has served as
supervisor since
October 1974.
Employed in Feb
ruary 1968 as en
gineer in Ecusta’s
Research and De
velopment De
partment, he later
worked as super
visor of the de
partment’s physi
cal testing labora
tory, as assistant
manager of test ¬
ing services, and as project man
ager. Prior work was with Morgan
Manufacturing Company at Black
Mountain. A native of Suffern, N. Y.,
he graduated from high school at
Mahwah, N. J., and entered North
Carolina State University where he
earned his B.S. degree in Wood
Science. He was “Big-4” archery
champion during each of his four
years of college and was a student
instructor of gymnastics and arch
ery. He also participated in hand-
ball, track and swimming. A member
of the North Carolina National Guard
for nine years, he also belongs to
the Technical Association of the
Pulp and Paper Industry, the Na
tional Archery Association and the
National Guard Association.