Appointments and advancements, agriculture department

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WILLIAM C. McGUFFEY . . . new assistant director of grower and government relations

DA VIS L. SUNDERLAND

. . . new resident manager at Fremont

Agriculture Department

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• William C. McGuffey, manager of the Mitchell factory distri\:t for the past nine-years, was appointed assistant director-of grower and government relations at the General Office.

In the new position, McGuffey reports

to Robert

J.

Fisher, vice president in charge of those functions.

~ u f f e y was also appointed. vice pres-ident of agriculture and grower affairs for Northland Research Company of Minne~ sota, a firm recently aligned with Great W estem Sugar.

In this capacity, McGuffey will direct agricultural activities with the "sweet stalk" com crop to bet-isecjtfor extraction of sugar at Northland.l p ~ s at Waseca, Minn., and Fargo, N. D. Hi.s office lo-cation will remain in Denver.

(See opposite page for other Northland

appointments.) _ ~

Before he went to MitcneIT, McGuffey was .manager of the_ Ovid factory district from 1957 to 1959. He was first appointed to the agricultural management staff in 1955 as assistant manager at Scottsbluff and Gering.

Earlier McGuffey was a Fieldman at Lyman f~om 1951 to 1955. He began his career in 1950 as a!; apprentice Fieldman at Billings. "' 1

A graduate of Michigan State Univer-sity, McGuffey took both bachelor and master degrees in agriculture.

• Davis L. Sunderland, district manager for sugarbeet areas near Fremont, Findlay and Goodland, was appointed resident manager of the Northern Ohio Sugat .

!'.;ompany. _

- In the new position, Sunderland was 1ocated at Fremont to direct the expan-sion of beet acreatd i~ orthw;stem Ohio and southeastern JA.ricfogan.

Sunderland first came to Fremont as manager in 1955 when Great Western acquired the Northern Ohio subsidiary. He became district manager in 1957.

Earlier, Sunderland was assistant man-a~er. of the Scottsbluff! an,d Gering factory d1stncts from 1954 t?i.J95i9. He served as a Heldman at Lyman from 1951 to 1954 and in the Gering district from 1948 to 1951.

, Sunderland began his career in 1947 a,t Scottsbluff upon his graduation from the

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Unim,1'y of M•somi.

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• Gordo~ Rudolph, manager of the Fre-mont factory distr·

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f111& the past 11 years, was appointed

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ager of the· Mitchell factory district.

- A Great Westerner for 22 years, Ru-I dolph first went to-Ohio in -1956 -to be-.come assistant manager at Fremont. His ~ssignment to Mitchell will be a return

GORDON RUDOLPH

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. _ . new managgr at Mitchell _ J

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-to the area where he served as a Heldman

from 1948 to 1956.

-Rudolph began his career as an ap-prentice Fieldman at Wheatland in 19~6. He is an agronomy graduate of Colorado A & M College.

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• William Gray, agriculturist in 'the· Goodland area, was appointed assistant manager of the Kancol factory district along the Colorado-Kansas border.

Gray was the first Great Westerner to reside in Goodland. He ame there in 1961 from Eaton, w.n~re · e was a field• man for three years.

Gray began his career in 1956 in the Prospect Valley area of the Brighton dis-trict. He is an agronomy graduate of ·'Colorado State University. His brother, Robert V. Gray, serves as an agriculturist in the Sterling district.

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----Dr. Thomas

J.

Army, vice

president-research and development, joined the

staff in February with broad

back-ground in soil, water and plant

re-search.

He came from International

Minerals at Libertyville, Ill

., where he

was research director of plant and

soil sciences.

Earlier, he conducted

similar research for the U. S. Dept. of

Agriculture at Fort Collins, Amarillo

and Bozeman.

He earned his doctorate

in agronomy at North Carolina State

University and earlier degrees at

Massa-chusetts University.

Robert

J. Fisher was named vice

pres-ident-grower and government relations

in 1967. He first became a vice

presi-dent in 19 61 with the designation of

treasurer. He was treasurer and

assis-tant secretary from 1950 to 1961.

Fisher came to the staff in 1945 from

the Sugar Division of the U. S. Dept.

of Agriculture in Washington D. C.

He attended the USDA graduate school

and Southeastern University, both in

Washington.

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Robert A. Brenirner was advanced to

vke president-e!!!_Qloyee relations in

1968.

Earlier, he was manager of

labor relations and assistant director

of employee relations. He came to the

General Office in 19 54 from

Moun-tain States Employers Council in

Den-ver. He also served with government

agencies and the U. S. Marine Corps.

He was graduated from the University

of Denver with degrees in law and

business administration.

Fred G. Holmes became vice

president-agricultural administration in 1961.

His earlier positions included labor

commissioner and assistant labor

com-rruss1oner.

He came to the General

Office in 1942 from Brush, where he

began his career in 1939 as

timekeep-er. He is a graduate of the University

of Colorado. His father was Fred G.

Holmes, Sr., who opened the books

at the Loveland factory and became

the first cashier there.

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Norman R. Petitt became vice presi-dent-industrial products in 1969 with responsibility for the sale of sugar to commercial users. He joined the sales staff in 1968 with extensive experience -in the sugar brokerage business. For·

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ten

years, he represented the Meinrath , brokerage in Minneapolis. He began ~his career in New York brokerage houses and the Sugar Exchange upon graduation from the University of Colorado. He is the son of Claude W. Petitt, .senior vice president-sugar sales.

G. F. (Gus) Lachenauer joined the · . General Office staff in 19 69 as vice

president-consumer saies. His back-ground includes 13 years in various sales management positions with Proc-. tor & Gamble. In his last post, he was sales merchandising manager of the Clorox division. Earlier, he was west-ern division sales manager in Kansas city. He began his career with P&G's soap sales staff in New Jersey, where he earned master's and bachelor's de-grees in marketing at Rutgers ·

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Richard H. Schacht, vice president-marketing, came to the General Office in 1969 from the Great Western Foods Company in Knoxville, Tenn., now a division of _GW Sugar. He held the same position there. In his earlier career, he spent 11 years in the food marketing operations of Proctor & Gamble in Cincinnati. As a brand man-ager, he handled specialty mixes such · as the Duncan Hines line. He was

grad-uated from the University of Michigan with master's and bachelor's degrees

in

business administration.

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Murray R. Petersen was named vice · president-special products in 1968 wi~h

responsibility for the sale of livestock

feeds

made from beet by-products. He

came to GW Sugar from Colorado Milling.& Elevator Company in Denver, where he was vice president-operations. Earlier, he held executive positions with CM&E divisions in Omaha and St. Louis. Before entering the milling business, he was a high school athletic coach in Nebraska. He is a graduate of Dana College at Blair, Neb.

Roy E. Warren became vice presi-dent-finance in 1969 with the addi-tional post of treasurer. He came to the General Office staff in 1968 as financial planning manager from Seal-test Foods in Pittsburgh, where he was district comptroller. Earlier, he was on the finance staff at Pittsburgh Plate Glass. A native of the Sterling area, he was graduated from the Uni-versity of Colorado with a degree in accounting.

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Robert A. Wherry became corporate

secretary in 1958 with additional

dut-ies as insurance manager and safety

dir-ector. He also represents the company

in legislative matters and recently

be-came a member of the White House

Commission on Voluntary Action. He

served as assistant secretary from 1953

to 1958 and joined the General Office

staff in 19 51. A graduate of Ohio

State University, he also earned a law

degree at Westminster Law School in

Denver.

Clair H. Iverson, chief engineer, was

appointed

to that position in 1966. In

his

earlier career, he served as a district

engineer in charge of design and

con-struction at factories in Colorado, Ohio

and Nebraska. He was also a project

engineer.

He joined the engineering

staff in 1948 upon graduation with

honors from the University of

Colo-rado.

His father was the late C. M.

Iverson, ,vho retired a.s master

me-chanic at Loveland.

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• Reorganization and expansion of the Sales Department with three new division managers were announ~d by Claude W.

Petitt, vice president-sfiles.

The new managers include two second-generation Great Westerners, while a new assistant represents his family's third gen-erq.tion with the company.

• C. H. Criswell, Jr., a Great Westerner._

for 17 years, was appointed sales manager for grocery products. ljis father, who n~w. lives in ~stes Park,f as a long-t!me d1stnct superintendent ~ en he retired in 1952.

• Norman R. Petitt, a sugar broker's representative for ten years in Minne-apolis, was appointed sales manager for industrial products. He is the son of Claude Petitt, a Great Westerner for 44

years.

• Don Naeve, a marketiw pecialist from New York City who star~cl his career i11 Colorado, was appointed to the new posi-tion of product manager. He will be

"responsible for new products, new pack-~ges, and advertising.

• Sam McDowell, a member of the sales staff for 28 years, was named Rocky Mountain sales manager f he market-ing areas of Colorado, Wyommarket-ing, Mon-tana, New Mexico and Western Nebraska. • Harry L. Sykora, a nine-year member of the sales staff who works out of Find-lay, Ohio, was named district sales man, ager for the Northern Ohio Sugar market-ing area.

_. Jerry Hooper, a third-ge ration Great Westerner, was named 1stant to the sales manager for grocery products. He is the son of Sabin G. Hooper, superin-tendent at Scottsbluff, and grandson of the late Harry W. Hooper, who was as-sistant general superintend,e t at Scotts-bluff for many years.

• Robert Cass, a member of the sales staff for five years and formerly chief or<ler clerk, was named assistant to the sales manager for industrial products.

In the sales reorganization, three mem-·

hers of the staff continue in

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positions they have held for some time. They are:

• Robert T. Makie, ·merchandising man-ager.

• James L. Mark, office manager.

• John G. Wilson, sales engineer. • Jack Thompson was named chief order clerk for sales. He formerly was petty cashier in the Credit Department.

C. H. Criswell moves up to sales man-ager for grocery products with 15 years of experience in sugar sales and mer-chandising. For the past five years, he was assistant to the sales manager, super-vising sales in Northern Ohio and assist-ing in the expansion of j\ dustrial sales. In the previous five ye'a , he was a bulk sugar specialist for' the trade in Chicago and other manufacturing centers. From 1953 to 1958, Criswell worked on retail assignments in various cities in the midwest. He began his year-around career in the Traffic Department at the General Office in, 1951, but worked

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ier periods

·in Denver and at the Johnstown sugar

Jactory dating back to 1943_. _ __ _ ~

Norman Petitt becomes sales manager for industrial

pro<filts

with a background in the sugar ½okM ge business. For the past 10 years, he }epresented the Mein-rath brokerage in Minneapolis. He be-gan his sugar career in New York broker-age houses and on; e Sugar Exchange

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·upon 1s gra uaJJ.on rom t e mverslty of Colorado.

Don Naeve, the new product manager, comes from the New York advertising and marketing agency of Stecher-Traung-Schmidt Corp. A native of Erie, Colo~ he began his career in sales and market-ing in 1950 upon his graduation from the University of De11 er ~