Additional material on John D. Edmiston

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DENVER, Colo., June 19 -- John Do Edmiston, manager of the Greeley and Eaton, Coloo, factories of The Great Western Sugar

Com~ny, bas been appointed northern district manager. The company's northern district includes the North Platte Valley of Nebraska,

Wyaning and Montana.

President Frank A. Kemp e.nn unced today that Mr. Edmiston would· succeed Lyman H. AIJdrews who bas been appointed. mnager or the southern, or Colorado district.

Mr.

Edmiston was born in Pennsylvania and grew u.p in Pueblo, Colo. He entered company service in 1933 upon his graduation that year from Colorado A & M College., He spent three years in Mebmska working with the field forces e.t Gering, Scottsbluff', Be.yard and Mitchell, and became tiel.dma.n at Longmont, Colo., in 1936. In 1938

he went to Fort ?.!organ a..s fieldma.n and was appointed assistant manager a.t Brush in 1943~ He was made manager at Windsor in 1944 and manager of the Eaton-Greeley factories in

1948.

~ . Edmiston married Miss Ma.ry Louise Roe.ch in

1935

G They have one daughter, Katherine, 17.

Mr. Edmiston is a member

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Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Beta Beta Beta,

honorary botany f'raternity, the Rotary Club, the Episcopal church, and has taken an active pa.rt in conmunity activities.

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.·AI>Dr.r!ONAL MATERIAL ON JOD D .. 1IDMISTON

John 'D. E&liston, who suoce@ds R. L. Kimmons es manager

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tl:w Greel

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and Eaton tactories, is expected to finish hi,; duties at Wimsor about August

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oome to Greeley August 9 and 'tfork u1 th ~ o Kimmons th.?ough Au.gust 20, when 11$ will.

take over his new responsibilities.

Mr. Ed.mston 1e one o'f the outstanding younger euout1ves of the -somrans

and through hie work at W1ndsor has alread,1 bec011W knol·m.

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l!lanY !)$ople in thG GrGeley ...

Eaton territory.

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Mr .. idllliston vu om at !arzwebo?"O, Pa.,Atbe son of Robert A. and Viola

J. F.dmiston. The fam.17 lived 1n Pueblo, Colo., from 1910

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1929, cl.U!'ing ithich

pe?'iod Mr. Eclm1aton atte.ncled the ele•ntary schools an.Ii Pueblo Centennial B:tgt;. SChool.

lie entered Colorado State Coll.ego in 1929 and ·was ~ad"a.atsd in 1933, Bachelor of

So1enoe, maJor1ng 1n Botsny.

Following him graduation he wss appointed s.m,rant1ce i"ieldman of The G:esa.t

Western Sugar Coapar11 in 1933 1n the lfobrauka. dietr1oto He lived at Garing and during

·the next tln"ee yea:t'G worked 1n each of the six lobraeka. factory distriota~

In 1936

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vae traneferred

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Lon@nont as fieldwm and 1n 1938 want

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Fort,

Morgan as f1el4!.lt&n. He was ap1.)01nted seoiatant to thGi IUNle.ger at Brush in July,

19113,

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and manager at Winiieor in

1944.

Mr. Edmiston was· mai-ried in 1935 to Miss }P.ary Lou.1se oach and thGy ha: e e

da.ushter, ltatherinG Anne, eight yem-s old.

Bo is a ii.be?> of tho Presbyte:-s: .. ian Church.

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