All Polyclad employees knew the executive staff. Richard wanted it that way.
I think he may have gotten it from Mike. When Mike owned the company, and for the five year tenure that he led under Cookson, he would walk the Franklin plant about once a week and talk to everyone. Joe would hardly ever be seen. He would join the crews during holiday parties.
Even after taking the presidency, Joe was mostly seen during holiday parties; but by that time we had moved from the three small plants to international, so nobody really expected to see him as much as they had Mike; though most of the old timers would bring it up every so often.
Ostrow, I would see all the time... but that was mostly the interaction between engineering and quality control. Varnell only occasionally as I had to review the quality of some new processing changes that would come about under his tenure. He would usually come to me with Steve.
Not really sure who Dick M. is...
We had several Richard's that worked for us over the years... and I doubt it could be Dick McDonald. I don't remember him being with the company in 2002.
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