The Vick news [June 1955]

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The greatest of all human
blessings is Peace, and the
worthiest of all human efforts the striving for Peace.
- P.  Christopher Wren
Vol.7
Greensboro, N. C, & Philadelphia, Pa., June, 1955
Mo. 4
Holloway, Scott & Hall Join G'boro
As Result Of Recruiting Program
Results of the Division's College Recruiting Program are
now being seen as three men joined the company in the Production Management Development Program. First to arrive
on the scene was Nick Holloway,
a Chemical Engineer from El
Dorado, Arkansas, formerly employed by the Lion Oil Company
as a Process Design Engineer.
Nick became Supervisor of the
V&V laboratory on June 6. He
has his degree from the Missouri
School of Mines. Nick will soon
be joined in Greensboro by his
wife Betty Sue and their three
year old son.
Den Scott, a University of North
Carolina graduate with a B. S. in
Business Administration was the
second arrival during the month
and began his first assignment as
Production Trainee in the Production Inventory Control Section.
As a senior, Don was a member of
tl.e Executive Committee of the
Interdormitory Council, chairman
of the Interdormitory Council
Ccurt,   and   active  in  intramural
athletics. With golf and baseball
as hobbies, Don will undoubtedly
have played his first few games
with the Vick softball team before the paper is printed.
The third man who will help
plug the vacancies created by the
promotions and transfers of
Charlie Barber and Bill Pritchett
(see page 4, col. 4) is Bob Hall,
a Duke graduate. Boh Is hardly a
stranger to softball fans and
p'/ayers, for he has been playing
with the Vick team since the season started. While earning nearly
all of his school expenses, he
found time to play on the All Intramural Football Team and participated in nearly all the intramural
snorts available. He was Rush
Chairman, and officer for his social fraternity, Delta Sigma Phi,
and enjoys bridge, hunting, fishing, photography, and all spectator sports. Bob is a native of
Salisbury, N. C, and is engaged
to Peggy Moore, a Greensboro
native.
Vick extends a cordial welcome to Nick, Don. and Bob, and
wishes them a long, successful
future with the company.
DoaSmtt
Bob Hall
Six Win Awards; Ray Ruth Has 2
In Phila's May Suggestion Meeting
Six Philadelphia employees
Suggestor of the Year Award for
Charles Prince, Maintenance,
accepted  suggestion which was
that a screen be placed over the
exhaust fan in the welding shop.
Charlie recognized the fact that
at   times    cleaning   rags   were
accidentally   drawn   through  the
fan, possibly damaging the motor
on the fan.
Ray   Ruth,   Maintenance,   put
on his thinking cap last month
and  submitted  two  suggestions
which were both accepted by the
Suggestion   Committee.      Ray's
first suggestion was that a brack-
are off to a good start in the
next year.
received an award for his first
et be made with a canvas pouch
attached which would replace the
cardboard box that used to be
used to catch extra caps on the
cap feeder of the inhaler line.
Ray's second Suggestion was
that tefalon strips be glued to the
pads on the No. 1, No. 3, and
No. 5 labelers. This would keep
the pad much cleaner allowing a
better seal on the label of the
jars and bottles.
(continued on page 4)
Five Added To 20 Year Honor Roll
Fourteen Have Names Inscribed On
Vick Ten Year Service Award Roll
Congratulations to the nineteen new members of the Vick
Twenty Year and Ten Service Award Rolls.
Five new "oldtimers" join the Twenty Year Service Award
Formalized Training
Program Inaugurated
For College Students
With an eye toward the future,
the Manufacturing Division wUl
institute its first formallzet
training program for college students with a heavy emphasis on
men working toward engineering
degrees.
Two ~.en, Cnsiles Kinsman uf
Penn and Wilfred Lorry of Harvard start in Philadelphia in
June. At Greensboro, George
McAllister of Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Jerry Ha^sell from
the University of Florida, and
Charlie Thomas of N. C. State
College started their twelve-week
engineering   program   June    13.
This summer program has been
designed as a means of interesting prospective engineers in a
future not only in packaging
equipment maintenance, design,
and development, but also in the
over-all manufacturing 'operation.
In their process of learning while
earning, a relatively useful and
much needed service will be provided.
Kinsman, an Administrative
Engineering graduate of Lafayette
is now a graduate student at Penn
where he will complete his requirements in 1956. He is an
Army veteran of 24 months and
with his wife lives at 425 West
Chelten Avenue. His training
program, as well as McAllister's
and Hassell's In Greensboro, wiU
include work on the drafting board
machine shop, and developmental
assignments, maintenance of
packaging machinery, buildings
and other equipment.
The only non-engineer in the
group is Lorry, a Dean's List
Accounting major. Employed in
the ComptroUer's Division summer program, Will becomes a cost
clerk at Philadelphia during the
three-month vacation, and wiU
commute daily from Villanova.
He expects to graduate in January, 1956.
The trio of Engineers at Greensboro includes candidates for degrees in three engineering fields -
Mechanical, Chemical, and Electrical. Charlie Thomas working
toward his Chemical Engineering
degree in June, 1956, is assigned
to the Technical Department
where he will learn control proce-
Roll. These are Joe Yonaitis of
Philadelphia, James Guyer and
Hugh Taylor from Greensboro's
Wendover Avenue plant, and Elmer
Ozment and Clyde Nance from
Milton Street. As recognition of
their long service with Vick,
each wiU receive two weeks'
extra pay at vacation time this
year.
TEN    YEAR    SERVICE
Fourteen employees of the Man
ufacturing Division join the growing ranks of the Ten Year group.
In Qr^ertsborc WiU—Csu^.p, Mar-
garet Fields, Rebecca Gatewood,
Dean Goins, Virginia Parmley,
and Mary Squires are the new
members. In Philadelphia the
eight additional members on the
Ten Year Service Award Roll are
J. C. Blakeney, Peg Dieterich,
Bill Goldsmith, Ann Hoffman.John
Mitchell, Melvin Mobley, Joe
Reiley, and Alice Zilinsky. Each
will receive one week's extra pay
at vacation time for having attained ten years' service with Vick.
130 ON SERVICE AWARD ROLLS
There are now 130 Greensboro
and Philadelphia employees on
the Service Award Roll (see page
2 for complete list). Fifty-five
have 20 or more years of service
and seventy-five have between
10 and 19 years of service. This
means that over one-fourth of all
regular employees have been with
Vick ten years or more - a fine
record, indeed!
Unlisted on the Service Award
Rolls are those who are overtime
exempt and who receive an additional week of vacation after ten
years' service in lieu of the cash
service  award.
dures, testing, and developmental
work. Charlie is a native of
Franklin, North Carolina
Rounding out the group are
George McAllister, a Mechanical
Engineering candidate from VPI,
with 33 months' U. S. Army service, and Jerry Hassell, an Electrical Engineering major with 20
months' Navy service as an
Electronics Technician. Jerry is
married and has an eighteen-
month-old daughter.
Vick heartily welcomes these
college students; and, together
with members of their respective
departments, wishes them an interesting and profitable summer.
Joe Yoaatis
Clyde Nun