POLYCHROME
People 5 as remembered by Mr. Bob Gumbinner
Of
course we did hire some very competent people. One person, Howard
Horton, was hired as sales manager. This was at the time we were
working with Kodak on plates for their Verifax copier. I was present
in Mr. Halpern’s house when he interviewed Howard Horton and told
him that he would have a free hand to run the sales department.
Since sales were Mr. Halpern’s forte, this did not happen. Mr.
Horton left after six months.
James
Graves, who started with Polychrome first as a salesman and then
the manager of our Baltimore Office, became the Vice-President for
sales. Frank Niemeyer and then Seth Cross were
competent Advertising Managers. Bernard Gold was hired as our
Chief Accountant and became a Vice President and Chief Financial
Officer. Simon Chu, who Mr. Halpern got in touch with from
Simon’s Uncle Bill Moran, was a excellent Chemist and became a Vice
President. I hired Dr. Delos Bown when the American Chemical
Society had their annual meeting in New York City. I had rented a
room to interview candidates in a hotel. I went home at night. When
I returned in the morning my papers were gone. Since I did not sleep
there, housekeeping threw them away. After much effort I was able to
retrieve them. We were fortunate in employing Leo Golusinsk, who
had been a General Foreman at Alexander Smith carpet Mills, as plant
manager. When they closed, we hired several other people including
Jack Roberts, who had run an offset duplicator there, to run
our duplicator and test plates as well as do printing.