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ECUSTA PAPER AND FILM GROUP
VOL. XXIV, No. 4 FOURTH QUARTER 1 978
UNITED WAY CAMPAIGN IS CONDUCTED
SUCCESSFULLY IN THE FOURTH QUARTER
NOVEMBER 3,1978
Olin Corporation's.
Ecusta Paper and Film Group
at Pisgah Forest. North Carolina
has been awarded Honorable Mention in the
1978 Governor's Business Awards
in the Arts and Humanities
For significant achievements in
corporate support and development
of North Carolina’s cultural resources
J^fmesB. Hunt. Jr. Governor
State of North Carolina
ARMOR SHOW
BRINGS
GOVERNOR’S AWARD
The Ecusta Paper and Film Group
has received from North Carolina
Governor James B. Hunt, Jr. an
award of Honorable Mention for
“significant achievements in corpor
ate support and development of
North Carolina's cultural resources.”
Garza Baldwin, Jr., group presi
dent, accepted the award November
3 in Winston-Salem, at the banquet
climaxing the 1978 Governor’s
Business Awards in the Arts and
Humanities.
The Olin award is specifically for
the sponsorship of the Asheville Art
Museum Armor Exhibition, the nu
cleus of which is the collection
owned by Perl Van Sant of the Olin
Works cellophane plant. The exhibi
tion was made possible by grants
from the Olin Corporation Charitable
Over $29,000 was pledged in
fourth quarter by Pisgah Forest em
ployees for the 1979 United Way or
ganizations of Transylvania, Hender
son and Asheville-Buncombe.
Helen Merrell, a member of the
campaign committee last year,
served as chairman this year. Her
co-chairmen were Betty Harrison,
Larry Baynard and Bill Alverson. As
in years past, the data processing
part of the campaign was headed by
Bobby Black. In their wrap-up report
Trust, the North Carolina Arts Coun
cil and other sources.
The president of the Asheville Art
Museum, Sylvia Fisher, said in nom
inating Olin for an award:
“The Asheville Art Museum Armor
Exhibition is a direct result of ini
tiative taken by Olin personnel
which served to catalyze other indi
viduals and organizations . . . the
Exhibition has been viewed enthusi
astically by thousands of persons;
it has been a major broadening
of the museum’s service to the
public .. .'’
Van Sant, who amassed a major
collection of medieval armor over a
40-year period, consigned his
European and Asian armor to the
Asheville Art Museum for a guaran
teed loan of five years, renewable at
periods he said he hoped would reach
25 years or longer.
The Olin Corporation Charitable
Trust will provide more than $20,000
over the five-year loan period to
cover display costs, and the North
Carolina Arts Council has provided
$4,000 to catalog the collection.
A related article begins on page 2.
to the Group staff, the committee had
special praise for their help with the
campaign:
“We wish to express openly our
appreciation of the services that
Bobby Black performed for the com
mittee. He plays a very big part in
the campaigns, perhaps the biggest
part, because it is in Data Proc
essing where it all comes together.
“Our thanks go also to all the con
tributors and the solicitors who
carried out the campaign, and to the
supervisors who allowed their em
ployees time to work on a project
such as this.”
Transylvania, with the largest em
ployee population, led the total
contributions by far: $22,163. Hen-
(continued on page 4)
The difference between an energy
czar being a hero or a bum is just
a few degrees Fahrenheit. See
page 16.