Farewell Ron Mara

Ronald Marra, 63, a longtime resident of Pompton Plains, passed away peacefully at home on August 28, 2012.

Ron was born in the Bronx, NY to Joseph and Anna Marra.  He married Valerie Piano in 1973 and together the couple raised two children.  While living in Pompton Plains, Ron was a parishioner of Holy Spirit RC Church and a Pequannock Little League coach for over 15 years.  A devoted family man, Ron was a loving husband, an adoring father and a dedicated friend.

Ron is survived by his father, Joseph; his wife, Valerie; his daughter, Jill; his son, Nicholas and daughter-in-law Denise; and his brothers, Arthur and Joseph.

A funeral Mass will be held at 10 am Saturday, September 1 at Holy Spirit RC Church in Pequannock.  Entombment will follow at Ferncliff Cemetery in Hartsdale, NY.  Visiting hours will be held from 2 to 4 pm and 7 to 9 pm Friday at the M. John Scanlan Funeral Home in Pompton Plains.

Donations in loving memory of Ron will be graciously accepted in support of The Ron Marra Scholarship fund by Holy Spirit School, 330 Newark Pompton Tpke, Pequannock, NJ 07440.

1967 promotional tour in Japan

Japanese printers were accustomed to using so called "deep etch" plate reusing aluminum plate numbers of times, thus  the  newly introduced "one time use"presnsitized plate was accepted slowly.       In order to promote the use of PS (term coined  by Fuji for presensitized printing plate and later used widely worldwide), Mr. Haplern and Simon Chu toured Japan in the spring of 1967 and updated US printing technology for them in Tokyo, Osaka and Nagoya and attracted large numbers of Japanese printers..      Ken Shimazu accompanied them as an interpreter and also spoke on the off press color proofing technology.   (Japanese had extensive use of press proof and off press proof was never widely accepted!)

Simon Chu, Mrs. Halpern, Mr. Halpern, Carol Chu, Ken Shimazu

Mr. Halpern

Mr. Halpern, Prof. Inoue, Ken Shimazu

Ken Shimazu, Dr. Sofue, Simon Chu, Mr. Halpern

Mr. Halpern, Simon Chu

Ken Shimazu, Mr. Halpern

Simon Chu, Mr. Teruhiko Yonezawa

Simon Chu, Mr. Halperm, Dr. Seiichi Ooba

Field of Dream Luncheon Briar's in Briarcliff Manor, NY on Sept 29, 2012

Ken Watterson, Bill Palafox,  Nick Rella

Mario Rufino, Ralph Maschio, Jay Patel, Jenchi Huang

Simon Chu, Maria Sibio

Phile Yamin, Pauline Barootjan

Bob Hallman, Jack Wiethoff, Nick Godano

Hui Zhu, Thi Do, Richard Goodman, Tore Harms

Tore Harms, Marge McGill, Sydney Fowlds

Erica Bonime, Jiwan Ghandi, Peggi Otis

Marge McGill, Sydney Fowlds, JB Huang

Elizabeth Zielinsky,Victor Lopez

Len Bacharach, Bill Parafox,、Nick Rella, Victor Lopez

Pauline Barootjyan, Jeniffer Lin, Maria Sibio, Bob Hallman

Sentimental Journey to Yonkers-on-Hudson

Seen on Sept. 29, 2012.         The building is vacant and locked.

Field of Dream dinner Sept. 28, 2012

Front Row   Simon Chu, Bob Hallman, Thomas Bittner

Back Row   Ken Shimazu, Victor Lopez, Paul Reily, Jack Wiethoff

Polychrome Personnel Directory 1971, 1973, 1978, 1979,1984 and 1990

Only the covers are shown but of course all the personnel list, address and telephone number of the period  are inside.

Annual Report 1966

I was happy to find a copy of the 1966 annual report while cleaning my garage.      In 1996 Mr. Ibert Mellan retired and Dr. Delos Bown came in to direct the R&D group.      The 1966 annual report shows the pictures of 4 R&D chemists; Sidney Augartin, Gene Golda, Al Taudien and me (Ken Shimazu)