mini reunion with Mr. Shiraishi and Mr. Hashimoto

Here is a photo from  the recent mini reunion with Mr. Shiraishi and Mr. Hashimoto. former DIC technical staff who stationed in US.     Mr. K. Hashimoto came right after DIC purchase of Polychrome in early 1980 to.work first in Clark and then in Yonkers for about 5 years working on UV curable resin system.     One of the sensitizers he worked on was successfully used for CD UV printing ink which DIC successfully marketed.     He was later sent to run a company in Holland which DIC acquired for UV ink components.      He is retired and well recovered from his illness/operation he had two years ago.     He enjoys consulting for a graphic arts

company and plays  game of Go.

This is the second time in a few years I meet Mr. M. Shiraishi who stationed at DIC HQ in Fort Lee for some time starting mid 80' as the technical liaison between DIC and various companies acquired by DIC.        He now volunteers to teach and organize Japanese language school for foreigners,   

Mr. Shiraishi, me, Mr. Hashimoto

Polyworld Vol.7 number 2 Fall 1988

The first page of this Polyworld reports "retirement" party for Joe Piot who served six years as the president and the comment by in coming new president Don Wheeler.       This also reports Stan Eysman's retirement after 50 years with the company.      As reported some time ago, thanks to Bernie Gold, Polychrome retirement plan was described in detail.     Read all about them HERE.

Thank you Vivian D. for your valuable contribution.

Quality Service Herald Vol.5, no. 1 Winter-Spring 1991

This is one of the contribution from Vivian Delia whom you know as the head of Human Resources while we were in Yonkers HQ.        I believe the "Quality" movement was initiated and promoted during Mr. Piot's time and was a company wide movement as seen in this 12 page newsletter.      Many familiar faces and activities listed brings back wonderful memories of that era.    Read the details HERE.

Annual Report listing

Here is the list of Polychrome Annual Reports you can find in this blog.   We can trace the growth of the company year by year through the pages of the annual reports.       My first copy of the Annual Report was from 1966.      There must have been several years' worth annual reports prior to this date since the company was listed on the American Stock Exchange.           Since the acquisition of the company by DIC in 1979, there were no requirements for publishing stand alone annual reports but the management kept publishing ones reportedly to be ready for an eventual re-listing on the stock market, which never happened and the publication stopped in 1987.      
The blue underlined year is linked to the corresponding blog page and you can access entire annual reports in PDF format.        Those not underlined are missing from this blog and if anyone can contribute a copy I would be much obliged.     (After writing this I found there are at least two libraries, Stanford University Library and Western University "Bud" Library have copies or in microfilm form.    I hope to get to them one of these days to get them scanned for uploading)

1987
1986
1985
1984
1983
1982
1981
1980
1979
1978
1977
1076
1975
1974
1973
1972
1971
1970
1969
1968
1967
1966
1965
1964
1963

More 1991 pictures from Al Wierling

Al Wierling of Florida continues to dig into his file and sent in valuable old pics.
These pics are from 1991 seminar organized in Ft Lauderdale for operations staff by Ralph Gigi and a very nice woman speaker who's name escapes Al.   (Ralph was a long time R&D member started as an analytical chemist and moved on to regulatory compliance manager position.     He would have easily recalled the speaker but unfortunately he passed away few years ago.)
Al believes the meeting was for implementation of new OSHA regs.       Also pictured are some of our branch staff.         THANKS! Al!

Ralph Gigi

Steve Rothenberg, office manager

Bonnie Gallagher, order desk and Nick Cristancho, sales

Ron Mangis, sales

Mr. Robert Gumbiner now 96, the architect of Polychrome Engineering

Mr. Guminner beams broadly in these pictures from his 95 years old birthday party held last year.      Although he now lives in an assisted living housing, his mind is still as sharp as he was during his Polychrome days.        Although he was my first contact at Polychrome, the one who offered me the job and met me and my wife at the JFK airport on Oct 25, 1965 with Mr. Halpern, I do not know much about his background.          He was one of the very early employees of Mr. Haplern but he kept his background rather vague to all of us perhaps because of his involvement with the Manhattan Project during the WWII on which he will not talk about long after the war perhaps still honoring the secrecy agreement he had .        One can only surmise that he was a brilliant engineer to be tapped for the job.         Walking around Yonkers plant one could see his fingerprint all over the production lines .         All automated one-of-a-kind stencil packaging line must have been his brainchild.       He was probably a one man engineering dept. for a long time during the formative Polychrome years and must have contributed a great deal starting from a scratch (batch process0 to completely automated line both in stencil and plate line (D line and on).            He was my boss for a long time and I was always amazed how quickly he reads my report which I labored to write.          He was a dedicated lieutenant for Mr. Halpern and he too resigned when Mr. Halpern resigned from his post and joined his new company called Universal High Technology.           He retired in Virginia and enjoys the company of his son Fred and his niece AnnJ.

With Fred

with AnnJ  and Fred

March 1991 Plate Training Session

Another contribution from Al Wierling... Thanks  Al

This was a plate training session in Ft Lauderdale which was conducted in two sessions.      I think this may have been an introduction to the Columbus made plates.     Not sure of the names of all the attendees but they came from Miami, Tampa, Charlotte and Atlanta branches.   In the first session, the trainers were Mike Yatsko and Mark Osier.   Second session trainers were Don Reilly and Sal Lombardo.

The office at Ft. Lauderdale was new at that time and was using the PC type logo which was later replaced by the newer version which was polychrome with the red underline.

Mike Yatsko,Mark Osier, Ed Fran , Al Wierling, Mike Moya, Jim Fidanza, Bert Luis

Ray Schotler, Sal Lombardo

Jack Caufield, Don Reilly, Chuck Bingham

Robert Hollis, John Ferraiuolo