Bios for Claude W. Petitt, Robert A. Wherry, Fred G. Holmes, Robert J. Fisher, Whitney Newton, II, Lloyd T. Jensen, and Richard Von Kaenel

Claude W. Petitt, vice president-sales, was appointed to t a t position in February,

1968

.

He was sales manager from

1957

to

1968

.

and district sales manager from

1951

to

1957.

Petitt came to the sales department in

1950

from the purchasing

department, where he was an expediter and buyer. tle joined the company in

1924

as an office boy.

Robert A. vherry, corporate secretary, was elected to that position in 1958. He is also insurance manager of the company.

~herry was assistant secretary from 195J to 1958. He came to the company as insurance manager in 1951 from the General Adjustment Bureau in Denver.

fherry is a graduate of Ohio State University and Westminster

Law School in Denver.

Fred G. Holmes, vice president-agricultural administration, was elected to tl~t position in 1961.

Holmes joined Great Western in 19J9 with a family background in the beet sugar industry. ilis father , Fred, Sr., was a pioneer

Great iesterner who opened the books at the Loveland factory in 1901 and later became the first cashier there. The younger Holmes

began his Great estern career as timekeeper at the Brush factory in 1939. He was transferred to the General Office in 1942. He moved to the recruitment of field labor in 1945 as assistant labor commissioner and in 1948 became labor commissioner.

Robert J. Fisher, vice president-grower and government relations, was elected to that position in 1967. He first became a vice president in 1961 with the designation of treasurer. He was treasurer and assistant secretary from 1950 to 1961.

Fisher joined Great Western in 1945 with extensive background in the sugar division of the U.S. Department of A riculture in ~ashington, D. C. Previously , he was a sports

(Y'

writer for the Buffalo Courier-Express, in New York, where he

was raised. He attended Southeastern University and the Department of Agriculture's graduate scnool, both in Washington, D. C.

'1hitney Newton,II, vice president-research, was elected to

that position in February,

1968.

Previously, he was director

of research and chemical control from

1964

to

1968,

and assistant

director from

195J

to

1964.

Earlier, he was superintendent of

t e Process Development Laboratory at Loveland from

1949

to

195J.

He began his career in

1946

in the factory laboratories at Fort

Collins and Loveland.

Newton took his bachelor's degree in chemical engineering

in

1942

at Massac~usetts Institute of Technology and, is master's

Lloyd T. Jensen, senior vice president-operations, was

elected to that position in February,

1968.

Previously, from

1957

to

196

8

,

he was vice president-operations. From

1951

to

1957,

he was district superintendent of factory operations in

Colorado. Earlier, he held staff positions in the operating and engineering departments and was superintendent at the

Gering factory from

1946

to

1947.

He was also an assistant

superintendent at the ~ix1i«~sx~w~ Lovell and Gering factories.

Jensen began his career in

19JJ

gpon is graduation from

the University of Colorado with a degree in chemical engineering.

vhile attending high school, he worked summers at several sugar

factories, His father, villiam Jensen, was a long-time master

,

~

I

Richard Von Kaenel, vice president-finance and director

of Great Western United, is also treasurer of the subsidiary

Great Western Sugar. From

1967

to

1968,

he was vice president

and treasu~er of Great Western Sugar. He came to the sugar

company from the Ford Motor Company in Detroit , where he was

service planning manager, marketing staff. He is a graduate