Volume 24, No. 4 October, November, December,1981

PROMOTIONS AND APPOINTMENTSTimm Kelly

We add to the picture of Dr.Timm Kelly painted early in 1981because of his promotion toGroup Leader, Aluminum, effec-tive at the December retirementof Nelson Newhard. He played alittle football and ran the halfmile at Liberty High in Beth-lehem and discovered at LehighUniversity that his size would not

Timm Kelly

allow him to make the varsity. Hesampled Boston University,Massachusetts lnstitue of Tech-nology and got his doctorate inchemistry from Wayne State inDetroit. After that he did postdoctorate research and teachingat the Universities of Victoria inBritish Columbia, and Guelph inOntario, all in all a rather wideeducational experience, geo-graphically at the least.

He came to Amchem and hiswork in the aluminum area hasproduced two patents withanother just allowed. For his per-formance during 1980, he wasmade a member of the President.'sHonor Club, one of the first twofrom the Technical Department.

Bonnie, his wife, and Timmhave two children, Heather, 10,and Any, going on 8. Bonnie'sfamily lived next to the Kelly's inBethlehem; as a matter of fact,they each lived in half of a doublehouse and Timm and Bonniehave known each other since shewas 9 years old. Bonnie nowworks in the office of superin-tendent of schools of UpperDublin Township.

The Kelly's have a fairly size-able vegetable garden and Timmsays ``that when Bonnie isn't

working or chauffeuring kids, sheis canning or freezing. They alsoplay some bridge, Timm moreand Bonnie less enthusiastically.Timm golfs and bowls in the Am-chem leagues with,as he says, "in-different success."

TOM J®hesTom Jones was appointed

Group Leader, Autophoretic inOctober along with other changesin the Technical Department re-ported elsewhere. A slim, genialfellow, Tom was born in Colum-bus, Ohio, moved at age 3 toBuffalo, N.Y., and again at age 7to Jenkintown, Pa. At the highschool there, he played a littlesubstitute second base, golf onthe varsity, and was the valedic-torian of his graduating class.

At Lafayette C®llege he says-hemajored in chemistry, socialevents, and intra-mural sports,not necessarily in that order. Hiseducation was completed with afew graduate level courses in in-organic and analytical chemistryat the University of Pennsyl-vania.

Preceeding his arrival at Am-Continued on page 2

SnydepGDmpletes40Yeaps

In Diisseldorf, Dr. Gibian (L) and Dr. Schulz-Dornburg foank GeneSnyder as theji view some Of the manufacturing facilities.

Sch®ldrship F®II®wup

The account Of the awarding Of the scholarship to the son or daughterOf an Amchem employee appeared in the last issue Of the AmchemNews but getting the principals together could only be done for thisissue. Shown, loft to right, are Gene Snyder who presented the award,Janis Lipacis, father of the winner, Mark Lipacis, recipient, and MaraLipacis, wife Of Janis and mother ef Mark. Scene took place inSnyders Of:f iice in August.

Amchem's president, GeneSnyder, completed his 40th yearwith the company on July I andwe reported on the first obser-vance of this anniversary whichwas made at the President'sHonor Club awards ceremonyback in February. But two fur-ther observances took placenearer the time of the anniver-sary.

In late June, all the membersof Gene's staff here at Amchemand their wives were joi.ned byDr. Thomas Gibian, executivevice president of Henkel ofAmerica, Inc., and his wife at adinner honoring Gene and hiswife, Norma. (see picture). Andin addition, in early July, Geneand Norma journeyed to Dtissel-dorf, West Germany, there tohave the anniversary marked atseparate luncheons and a dinner.

The luncheon for Gene was at"Turmzimmer" (Towerroom) inthe Henkel headquarters in Dus-seldorf (see picture) at which sev-eral Henkel officials graciouslylauded Gene for his accomplish-

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TOM JONESContinued from page 1chem, Tom taught freshmanchemistry at PMC Colleges. Itwas during the time of transitionat PMC from its military empha-sis to its present liberal arts statusas Widener College. At Amchem,where he has spent 10 years, Tomhas worked briefly in the steelgroup, the autophoretic group,and mostly as group leader of thecoil coating group.

Tom Jones

Tom and his wife Susan havethree children which situation hesays "gives rise to a certainamount of hysteria" aroundhome. The older two, Alexander,6, and Kyle Elizabeth, 3, attendMelrose Academy and the young-est, David,I, is under the care ofa baby sitter. This is becauseSusan works as an electron mi-croscopist at the United StatesDepartment of Agrilculture Lab-oratories in Wyndmoor.

Tom likes to sleep, read,garden, do home repairs, playbridge, tennis, and do magictricks for the local small fry of hisneighborhood. Susan joins himat gardening, home repairs,bridge, and occasionally tennisand adds gourmet cooking andsewing to her activities, Theyhave acquired a large, old homenear the Melrose Academy thatlends itself to their home repair-ing hobby. "I plan; she executes,"says Tom.

Frdnk Skierm®nlIn October, Frank Skiermont

became Marketing Manager,Container Industry, reporting to

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Employees and Thei. FarTiLlies

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Frank S kie,rmont

John Curran. Frank had chosennot to go to North Carolina withthe Union Carbide move and re-tired. The position he fills at Am-chem then opened up and he sayshe is happy with the turn ofevents.

Born and raised in northernNew Jersey, Frank attended Nut-Icy High where he played in theline on the football team and onthe trombone in the band. Hewent on to Newark College ofEngineering, now known as NewJersey Institute of Technology,beginning as a day student butswitching to nights after his mar-nage and the necessity to supporta family. The college degree tooka total of 7 years and two of hischildren actually attended hisgraduation, although they wereonly 3 or 4 years old.

Union Carbide was his first job(Bloom field plant) and he was alab assistant until he got hisdegree in chemical engineering.He was a chemist at both Bloom-field and Bound Brook and slow-ly drifted into marketing andfinancial areas where his worktook him to New York and later,Ambler.

Frank and Dolores, his wife,have four children, 2 boys and 2girls. The youngest, a boy, hasjust entered the University ofNorth Carolina and the otherthree are married. Five grandchil-dren have issued, a "male basket-ball team" according to Frank.

Both Skiermonts enjoy golf,though Frank says he plays"without much skill," fresh and

salt water fishing, and workaround the house, the omnipres-ent lawn care, gadget repair, andcleanup of all home owners.

Sleve BenderhdgelSteve Bendernagel was ap-

pointed an Automotive Managerin the sales department back inAugust, reporting to TomBueter, National AutomotiveSales Manager. He and his fami-ly. which now consists of hiswife, Kathleen, and two boys.Matthew, aged 6, and Michael,aged 3 t/2 . will move from Indianato the Detroit, Michigan area.They will be joined there by a

new Bendernagel sometime inFebruary. He says he looks for-ward to the move even though hepronounces central Indiana as"not all that bad."

Born in Brooklyn, Steve wasraised in Wantagh, Nassau Coun-ty, Long Island. He attended thehigh school there where he re-ports he played some soccer but,more successfully, baseball. Hewas a pitcher on the team whichwon the county championship hisjunior year and he received hon-orable mention on the all-countyteam his senior year.

At Villanova University he ma-jored in biology as a pre-medical

Steve Bendernagelstudent. He continued to playbaseball and added basketballand partying to his list of partici-patory sports. The emphasis wasalso changed to intramural. Tohelp pay expenses he served as acaddy at nearby Merion CountryClub.

After a couple of marketingand sales jobs, he came to Am-chem as a sales representative.

Kathleen is a registered nurseand has worked full time at it inthe past. With the advent of thechildren she works now only parttime at a local hospital. BothBendernagels enjoy bowling in anearby league and Steve says theyare both TV sports nuts. He playssome softball, golf (76 is his bestscore) and takes the boys fishing.Kathleen is active on a local nur-sery school board of directors, aNewcomers Club, and the PTA.

N®rm S{hellengerNorman Schellenger. who was

appointed Group Leader, Coil inOctober, is one of those few inAmchem whose spouse also is anemployee. Joyce MCQueen is theanalytical chemist in the Environ-mental Engineering and ProcessImprovement group and the cou-ple live just above North Wales.

Norman was born and raisedin Marlton, New Jersey and wentto a high school in Medford. Hesays he had absolutely no timefor any sort of extracurricularactivity in school because heworked as a utility man (garden-ing, truck driving, inside sales) at

a garden center after school andon weekends. And when he wentto Drexel University he continuedto work at the garden center andhis job added up to paying for hiscollege expenses.

After getting his degree inchemical engineering, he went towork as an environmental engi-neer for the Chester CountyHealth Department. He says thetitle was more impressive than thejob and when he could standworking for the county no

Norm Schellenger

longer, he went into his own busi-ness of auto repairs. When he lostthe lease on his garage and couldnot find a suitable replacement ata decent price, he returned tochemistry at the Benjamin FosterCo. and then to Amchem. Herehe has worked in the autophor-etic and the aluminum groups.

Joyce and Norman have nochildren and enjoy gardening-he growing a wide variety of veg-etables and she raising flowers,particularly marigolds. Normcontinues to repair their automorbiles and does a little furnituremaking. He says Joyce has a largerecord collection, ranging fromclassical to rock music. She is alsosomething of an expert ori stereoequipment, its functioning, quali-ty, and construction. "I can tellonly whether the music is loud orsoft," says Norm.

was made Buyer in a July an-nouncement by Ed Feather, Di-rector of Purchasing. Her re-sponsibilities will continue to begraphics, office supplies, officeequipment, and furniture. For ashort profile of Jean's career andlife, see the Amchem News forOctober-November-December,1978.

Mike Pehdlel®n

The gentleman pictured above isMike Pendleton who was recentlynamed Technical Manager, Mar-keting Services at Bonewitz inBurlington. He has been at Bone-witz for twelve years in varioussales and engineering positions.

Gory Fuess-qftyath®f Gary Fuess, newlyappointed Supervisor, Adminis-trative Services, reporting toJohn Millard, parallels that ofFrank Precopio in being first anAmchemer, then a Carbider, andreturning to Amchem rather thanmaking the move to NorthCarolina. Gary was born inBrooklyn though his family wasliving in Patterson, N.J. at thetime. He was brought up in sev-eral north Jersey communitiesand attended a small privateschool in Hoboken, StevensAcademy. Nine boys there went

out for baseball and Gary Fuesswas the pitcher. He says the teamhad only average success.

At Delaware Valley Collegenear Doylestown, he played a lit-tle more baseball but mostly

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C;ary Fuess

worked to pay expenes, holdingdown jobs with a milk hauler andat the Ford Hook Farm ofBurpee Seed Company. With hisbachelor's degree in dairy hus-bandry, Gary began work atAgway, managing a retail store inCollegeville and constructing andoperating a fertilizer blendingplant in Green Lane. Then hecame to the Agricultural Divisionof Amchem where he was in-volved with customer service andsome sales administration.

Gary's two daughters are bothstudents and fine athletes. Lynn,the younger, is a QuakertownHigh junior and on the schoolvolleyball, basketball, and soft-ball teams. Deborah is a sopho-more at William and Mary Col-lege and a member of the varsityvolleyball team. Gary is a wood-working buff, making furniture,clocks, and doing inside housefinishing. He says he is "glad forthe opportunity to work here andcontinue the relationships he hadwith Amchem people."

lnlern®Ii®ndl Visil®r

Conferring with Karl Weigand (L) is Franco Falcone Of Amchem'sItalian licensee firm Panlo Granata. Franco was in the U.S. for about10 days for technical training with various Amchem technical peopleand some field training in several Amchem customer plants.

SNYDER COMPLETES 40 YEARS Con/I.nzfed/rompagc /

At the Blue Bell dinner picture above, Dr. Gibian, standing, has ob-viously said something pleasant to or about Gene Snyder. NormaSnyder also raises her glass in toast while Peg Gibian enjoys the occa-sion. A hand belonging to an unidentified toaster holds a glass incenter foreground and what can be the back Of the head Of only PatHarrison is in the loft foreground.ments. Dr. Konrad Henkel,chairman, reemphasized the im-portance of the Amchem-Henkelassociation with the followingremarks:

"We are all very pleased to

have you here with us on theoccasion Of your successifullycompleted 40 years withAmchem. Compared withthis long span of time thefew years in the Henkel fain-fly Of companies may notseem important to you. butto us the association withAmchem has a great signifil-Cance......But development needs ex-perience and reliable peopleand that is why we are soglad to have you at the helmOf Amchem with your longexperience as researcher andexecutive...."

And Dr. Stefan Schulz-Dorn-bung, chaiman of Henkel ofAmerica, Inc., added thesethoughts in his speech:

"Both the company as well

as Gene-both somewhathard to separate-had theirups and clowns, sometimesstormy weather, periods in aa fast changing world Ofwars, recessions, 8 presiden-cies from Roosevelt toReagan, changing owner-ships ,.... and what not.But both the company aswell as Gene Snyder havebeen extremely successfulover the years."The luncheon for Norma was

at a lovely restaurant along theRhine river after a tour of theHenkel cosmetics products facil-ities and sales showrooms, one ofwhich was an old German storebuilding, restored and used forproduct demonstration.

There was later that day, a din-ner of recognition for the Snydersheld at Hugenpoet Castle on theoutskirts of Dtisseldorf. OtherHenkel officials and wives werepresent at what Gene described asa ``magnificent occasion" in a"very beautiful spot."

Back in Ambler in late July,Gene mused on these events in hisoffice and indicated that he and

Norma "were utterly delightedand appreciative of the warm andsensitive treatment" by theirHenkel hosts. "We will rememberit always," he said. And he wasequally appreciative of the earlieropportunity to observe the occa-sion of his anniversary with hisAmchem associates of so manyyears.

The occasion was more for-mally observed in an article in theJuly Henkel Blick, the companynewspaper, which is reprintedbelow.

EUGENE A. SNYDER40 YEARS WITH AMCHEM

Diisseldorf -Eugene A. Sny-der (63), President and Chiof Ex-eoutive Oifftcer. cctebrated his40th anniversary with AmchemProducts, Inc. , Ambler/ Penrsyl-vania. After a long period offriendly contacts, Amchem Prod-ucts joined Henkel as a relatedcompany in the beginning of1980.

The current President Of thiscompany, Eugene A. Snyder,joined Amchem 40 years ago asChemical Engineer. He started inResearch Division in the area Ofproducts for the metal treatingindustry. During this time, 8patents were issued to him. OneOf his filrst irrventious was theproduct DURIDINE, the fiirstone-step iron phosphating prod-uct. It is still sold almost world-wide today. A second pioneeringinvention by Eugene A. Snyderwas PEROLINE, a temporarycorrosion inhibitor with an oilbase, which could be removedthrough steam degreasing andwhich loft a phosphate coatingbehind.

Towards the end Of the (19)40's, Eugene A. Snyder trarrs-ferred at Amchem from the Re-search Department to the Pur-chasing Department. 1965 he wasnamed Director Of Purchasingand Vice President. 1969 he wasnamed Executive Vice Presidentand a year later President and in1971 President and Chiof Exeou-tive Officer of the company.

Eugene A. Snyder is married toa successful painter and has threechildren.

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RETIREMENTS AND RETIREES

Mql. Delc®nleThe fellow sitting on the front

porch on a summer morninglooked tan and fit and content.He was Matt Del Conte who re-tired from Amchem back in 1979after about 131/2 years of servicehere. At the time the alerting net-work on potential retirees mal-functioned and we never reportedMatt's leaving in the Amchem

Matt Del Conte

News so we do it now.He was born, raised, and edu-

cated in Ambler and, after highschool, went to work at Keasbyand Mattison. He worked therefor 31 years, finishing up asforeman. When the companywent under, Matt came to Am-chem. He says he got some`sever-ance pay but no pension for allhis years at K & M. At Amchem,he worked in the receiving de-partment where he says he wasalways well treated.

Matt has a part time job atGermantown Academy but hispride is in the part time job he hasin his own garden. He proudlyshows the corn, peppers, toma-toes, basel, and sunflowers hegrows in the 600 odd square footplot. The sunflowers are at the re-quest of his 17 grandchildren andthis year he put in some corn forpopping at the insistance of oneof his six children.

Six months ago, one of hisgrandchildren and spouse pre-sented him with his first greatgrandchild, a boy.

Matt pronounces retired life"good" but says winter can drag a

little more than summer. The parttime job has helped that problemand he also reports enjoying anoccasional outing to the AtlanticCity casinos with others in theLRB Club in Ambler. He winsoccasionally but loses moreoften, an experience shared bymost frequenters of the casinos.

Andy M-yerskyPleasant, mild mannered Andy

Mayersky retired in late Sep-

Andy ¥ayer_sky (I) r.eceives the pewter bowl Of retirement from hissupervisor, Bob Applegate.

tember after 22 years with thecompany and he seemed over-joyed with the prospect of return-ing to the area of his early life. Hewas born in Shenandoah, Pa.,and is retiring to BeaverMeadows, a couple of miles fromHazelton.

Andy's working career beganat age 17 when he had to leaveschool for work in the coalmines. He was the youngest of 8children, 5 boys and 3 girls, andwhen times got tough in the de-pression years of the 1930's, thefamily needed all the workinghands it could get. After about 5years, he went into the U.S.Army Engineers during WorldWar 11. He went to Europe,specifically France, Belgium, andGermany and recalls buildingbridges for troops and the ex-treme frustration of seeing someof them blown up by enemy artil-lery fire, sometimes withinminutes.

After the war he came back tothe coal mines but after a coupleof years the job picture becamebad and he migrated to the Lans-dale area where he worked in afoundry as a precision grinder onmetal parts for radar equipment.From there he came to Amchem,where he has worked in smallpackaging but mostly in manu-facturing as a chemical mixer.

Andy and his wife, Lillian,have three daughters and a totalof 14 grandchildren, 2 of whomthey are raising themselves.

Andy says he doesn't have anyparticular plans for retirement-"just relax, maybe sleep later and

do some gardening. It's going toseem a little strange, not going towork.„

To catch a ride to work, he hasfor years been getting up at aquarter to five every morning andthe habit is so strong he awakensthen even on Saturdays and Sun-days. But he says it was always a"pleasure for him to come to

work-the best place I ever

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worked." Based on his talesabout working in the coal mines 8hours a day on hands and kneeswith a pick and shovel, one canunderstand Andy's feelings.

Met Pd..ers®nMel Patterson, former sales-

man in the Midwest Region, re-tired from Amchem in August.He had been on long term disabil-ity for about two years, havingsuffered from a heart disorder,compounded by a stroke whichoccurred in the hospital during aby-pass operation. After his re-c`overy, he moved to Clearwater,

Mel Patterson

Florida and lives there now withhis wife.

Mel was 28 years with the com-pany, all of it in the Pittsburghand western Pennsylvania sectionof the country. He knew the in-dustry there well, particularlysteel manufacturing and metalfabrication. His slow drawl andmild manner masked a deep in-terest in the technical aspects ofAmchem's Chemicals in a varietyof industries.

He and his wife now reside in alarge condominium complex inClearwater called Top-of-the-World. More than 70cO peoplelive there and Mel reports it is a

veritable city, with its own shops,recreation, and entertainment.He says he has played golf on thelocal course, though not recently,and does a lot of reading andwalking for exercise.

Yirginid CheqtierThe letter, excerpts of which

are printed below, is from theformer office manager of Am-chem's St. Joseph, Mo. plantwho recently retired.

Dear John (Millard) andfeuow employees:

I received the beautiful serviceaward, pewter bowl, yesterday. Iwish to convey my sincere thanksand to say how nice it was to bethought of in a very special way.

When something like thisaward is presented, I can't helpbut reminisce and think of theday Mr. Ray Naylor flew out toSt. Joseph in 1956 to finalize theinterviews for an office managerfor the new plant that AmericanChemical Paint Company wasopening in St. Joseph . . . I hap-pened to be the lucky one!

After the plant was in opera-tioh about six months, Mr. LeonCherksey came out for a visit. Hetold Mr. Abrams, plant manager,he wanted to have a personal get-acquainted talk with me-andnaturally I was petrified; but itworked out very well. I have twohand-written personal lettersfrom Mr. Cherksey that Itreasure.

I miss the friends at St. Josephand Ambler but I do appreciategetting the "Amchem News." Iwas glad to see that there werefive I knew received the award ofthe "Honor Club" and was espe-cially glad it was awarded toother departments and that Ger-trude Scheetz was the firstwoman to be honored.

Sincerely,

Virginia Chequer

Ednd Gduss

Edna Gauss, seated, up from Florida where she lives in retire-ment, poses with old friends Mildred Piersbn and Lyle Slingluff.Edna was visiting Lois Johanson for a few days.

Wdll MdcL.vghlin

Walt MacLaughlin recently came into help straighten out some Of themess he left when he retired. Look-ing filt and dapper, he posed with anold friend and associate, JeanGiampa.

Ed- LI®yd

Edna Lloyd, retired now for a fewyears, visited her old friends at Am-chem and brought her granddaugh-ter, Katie, a first grader, along.Scene was in Jean Wilkiuson's ofr„ce.

Gory Fuess leans on some Of the packing boxes to be carried out by themovers the next day.

Tony Varsaci and Patty Delp help clean out the files.

The truck, partially loaded.

END OF AH ERA

Amchem passed something of a milestone one day in August whenthe belongings of Union Carbide were moved out and the office peopleclosed up. It represented the largest evacuation to date of Carbide andthe remainder will be completed by the end of 1981.

After a nostalgic and somewhat teary last lunch, the whole groupposed bofore parting.

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After the move.

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PHOTOGENICAMCHEM

In early September Henkel setabout revising and up-dating itscorporate information film by in-cluding Amchem's operations. Acamera crew visited Ambler,

G.ere Sn_y_der g_ets wired f or sound by the vi-siting Henkel crew while John-Millardwatches.

A R®se ls A R®se ls A R®se

Warren, Michigan, Bonewitz inBurlington, Iowa and a couple ofAmchem customers. Explanatoryremarks by Gene Snyder werefilmed and included with leading

Lou Sabatini (L) and Ed Murt demonstrateanalytical wizzardry for the camera.

G_eorge Derderian, Engineering, stands besidethe framed photograph Of a red rose nowhanging 9n a wall ln the engineering depart-ment. The photograph is Of a 35 mm slideqforge entered in a contest conducted by theNgrristgwn_Camera Club about a year ago.M_ore than 350 camera bugs from various ldcalPfrotggraphic clubs entered and George wonthe first prizle Of $100.

questions asked by John Millard.The accompanying pictures showsome of the scenes as they weretaken by the Henkel movie team.

T.h? comer.a_ crey chief (L) tells CharleyJ.ohysf)n, Manufacturing, how to pose [olook best.

THE WILD LIFE AROUND AMCHEMThis photographer has leaned that when Bob Murray, Mainte-

nance, suggests getting a camera, there are some unusual aninaldoings around the premises. That was the case last summer when amother duck and her brood of six (see pictures) spent about threequarters of an hour around the Amchem parking lot, entrance gate

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area, and driveway back to the plant. They were looking for waterand food and Murray and other Amchemers were greatly relievedwhen they made their way off Amchem's property to the streamtowards the back of the plant. The runt of the litter just aboutmade it.

NOTES FROM ALL OVER

Burlingl®h, I®wdBob Kahn, Employee Rela-

tions, passed along an articlefrom a Burlington newspaper,The Hawk Eye, about Mike andTony Proctor (see picture) sonsof Delbert Proctor, Bonewitzpurchasing, and his wife, Janet.The boys have been competing inNational Championships forboth track and road cycle racingand have done well. Tony theyounger, placed second in themidget boys (8-11) division andMike, the older, got fifth in theintermediate (12-14) class in roadracing. Tony also got a fifth in aNational Track Championship

and last year Mike was 14th in thenational road racing.

According to the article, cycl-ing has engulfed the whole familywho all go to races on weekendsand practice on week nights. Thesport entails travel, too, since thechampionship races have been inNew York State, Pennsylvania,and Arizona. Both boys willmove up in age groups next year,Tony to intermediate, and Miketo Junior. Amchem News readerswill recall the item in the last issueabout Tony Proctor winning anIowa state mathematics bee.

Tony and Mike Proctor

Cincihndtli, Ohio

Another of our midwestern spies sent in the above picture which showsPete Callahan, left, Mid-West Regional Sales Manager, just afterreceiving a new golf club and handshake from John Haas, Vice Presi-dent Of Manufacturing Of the Heekin Can Division Of Diamond Inter-national Corporation. Pete won the award for the longest drive at theHeekin golf outing at Royal Oak Country Club,Cincinnati, -"almost100 yards; pretty good for Pete," according to our informant.

Warren, MichigqhWe are indebted to Mary

Nizol, of the Warren, Michiganoffice for the short account andpictures of the Arbor Day activ-ities there this spring.

Arbor Day,1981, was still a lit-tle chilly in Warren, Michigan,but many of the plant and officeemployees volunteered to plant100 Austrian pine seedlings alongAmchem's northern fence line.Mary Nizol, who is an amateurhorticulturist, took hold of a

suggestion and organized andsupervised the project.

The seedlings were purchasedthrough the Country Conserva-tion Department and the City ofWarren Parks and RecreationDepartment provided wood chipsfor the 350 foot bed. MotherNature has been cooperative inproviding enough rain whenneeded and several inches ofgrowth can be seen.

tJ,The pictures show the crew at work (top), the area Of the plantings,(center), and the composite view Of the group (bottom). Front row,loft to right, Lester Hinch, Roger Hakeem. Peggy Marlowe, CarolClark, Darryl Mitchell, Bill Dalton (kneeling), and Jim Holdsworth.Back row, left to right, John Williarns, Vertis Zeigler, Oscar Harris,and Decondi Banks.

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SAFETY CORNER

The collage below shows pictures of the audience, recipients andpresenters of safety awards made earlier this year (see Amchem News,July-August-September 1981 issue). By mid September the total hours

worked without a time losing injury or illness exceeded one milliori andfree coffee, sodas, and doughnuts were provided for employees on Fri-day, September l8th.

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REPORT ON GOLFSdfely Sc®reb®qrd

Type Injury1st 2nd 3rd 4th

YearQuarter Quarter Quarter Quarter

Lost Time 0 0 0 0

Minor 8 0 2 10

8 0 2 10

Wdl.s Currenl

The Philadelphia Electric Company came to the Amchem theater andst_aged an electrical sofety show that was highly popular with its au-dience_. Pictured are two views, one of assembled Amchemers (on top),and the other Of the speaker and his props which include a small TVscreen, lots of equipment for producing electrical phenomena of thespectacular kind and billboards and signs with safety advice.

In September the Amchem golfers wound up another season withtheir annual outing, complete with golf rounds, prizes (both leagueand outing), and a buffet supper, all at the Oak Terrace Country Clubnear Ambler. There were 29 golfers that day and Merv Iiubbard,league recorder, reported that there were only 8 rounds below 100 dueto exceptionally fast greens.

In the outing tournament, Stan Mayew had the low gross score andMax Zebich the low net. There were various other winners in differentscoring categories such as the Callaway, Buckley, and a blind partnerpairing. Lyn Chadbourne at 146 nosed out Timm Kelly with 137 forthe high gross. Due to a mixup, there was no photographer present torecord the wonders and miracles of tournament play. Maybe next year.

Competitive play Winners

Tony SerratoreWally DraganiAndy DucsikHarry LeisterDick NorthDon Lawrence

Low Gross Scores

Flight 1 Merv HubbardFlight 2 Kent Bonney

Chris SiebensonJohn Zollo

Flight 3 Dick North

Four golfers, John Zollo, Tony Serratore, Don Lawrence, and AIZimmermann tied for low net score.

New officers for 1982 elected at the buffet were as follows:President - Chris siebensonSecretary - J eff FrelinTreasurer - GaryshelbyRecorder - Chuck Haldeman

ENGINEERING MILESTONEThe newest additions to the

corps of Pennsylvania RegisteredProfessional Engineers are Am-chem's Jim Carroll, Manager ofEngineering Services, and GaryShelby, Environmental Control

and Process Improvement, whopassed the exams this summer.They join George Russell andMike Marino as Amchem mem-bers of this special category ofengineers.

lN MEMORIAMIn early August Okie Stecki died in Windsor, Ontario. She

had been office manager of Amchem's Windsor operations formany years and numbers of Amchemers in Ambler, Windsor,and Detroit were moved to comment on her life and service tothe company. Mike Murphy, Dick Rockstroh, Blanche VanBuren, and Michael Broadbent all contributed to a portrait ofOkie as a very pleasant, intensely loyal, somewhat cantanker-ous, proud, and private person. She had problems with herhealth for a considerable period and they worsened in the lastyear of her life. She died at age 58, having begun at Amchem in1960 as a bookkeeper and having become office manager in1968.

Okie loved to travel and, as reported in a previous AmchemNews article, had visited many parts of the world, includingmuch of the United States. Unfortunately, she won't be able tofulfill her dream of going around the 'world on a ``deluxe"freighter. She liked to garden and made numerous plantingsaround the Amchem offices and factory in Windsor. She hadnot, for health reasons, made any such plantings this spring but,perhaps symbolically, some of her previous ones reappeared.She enjoyed dancing and was often, according to those whowere there, the ``life of the party." She was one of those few Am-chemers whose personal and company lives seemed intertwinedin a special way. In the words of Michael Broadbent, "I couldwrite a book on her. She was an incredible lady."

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Boll Wrlgtit (a) r®coivos 30 y®ar award from Ray Collmor (L)and John Piacdell]. Manufacfurlng

Howard Schrood®r (2Iid lrom loft), rocolv®8 25 year awardfrom Grog Glbson (3rd tram toff) Ed Kruog®r (L), and Tony

Macrl. Sales

Frank Pr®coplo (R) and G®n® Snyllor at 15 yoar award

preseutatlon , Resea rch

CONGl]ATULATIONS

These are the men and women ofAmchem who have received ServiceAwards from July I, 1981 through

September 30,1981.

* -40 YEARS *Eug®no A. Snyd®r

* 30 YEARS +Josoiih FBI:kno Sllas st.wart

nob®rt Wright

+ 25 YEARSHoward schrood®r Karl wolgand

+ 15 YEARS *Frank precoplo Ed wItchey

* 10 YEARS *James Hall Elwood Johnson

Stanley Micsion

5 YEARSFrank Fr®llli

Carl Glllman

Marllyn Lauclim®n

Jean MccannMichael Nathan

Ftobert R]ce

Bob Stewart (C) accepts 30 year award from Bob Couch (L) andBill Darton.

Mlch3el Nathan5 years Accounting

Jean Mccann5 years Manufactlirlng

Jlm Hall (C) accepts 10 yl]ar award tram Janis upacis (n)and Ray€ollmer. Packaging 5years

Bob Rlce

Marilyn Lauchmon

5 yrs Employee Relations

Frank Frolin5 years Research

Carl Gillman

Sales 5years Research

Karl W®igand (C) accopl®d 25 yoar award from G®n®

Snydor (L) and I)lck Rockstroh. Manufacturing

Ed Wftch®y (R) rocoiving 15 yoar award lrom Dick Mungor.

Receiving

Etwood Johnson (L) receiving 10 year award from JimHall. Packaglno

Children recently born to Amchem employeeswhose names were not previously published in the N EWS.

PRISCILLA JEANETTE ANDERSON EMILY FILLIPOSeptember 30,198l September l3,198lFather: Jim Anderson Father: Bruce Fillipo

Research Research

MICHAEL JOHN KACHMAR KRISTIN MARIE SCHOENEROctober 4, 1981Father: John Kachmar

Sales

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July 3, 1981Father: Glenn Schoener

Research

DANA LEE GUNAGANAugust 12, 1981Father: Barry Gunagan

Research

KEVIN ROBERT YUHASZJune 30,1981Father: Robert Yuhasz

Sales

MICHAEL STEVEN HOWARDNovember 30, 1978

JEFFREY ROBERT HOWARDAugust 12, 1981Father: Gary Howard

Manufacturing