Page 4 | CHEM-TEXTS | Vol. 7, 1973
Six Employees Retire Recently
[PHOTO 1]
Harold Piascik, center, a Foreman in the Reclaim Mill Rooms, retired after 30 years of service. Wishing him well are Bert Scullin, left, and Robert Foltz, right.
[PHOTO 2]
Henry Quigley, right, retired after 34 years service. From left in photo are Bronislaus Taranovich, Robert Anderson, Charles Roland, Arthur Calder, Joseph Rotella, and Quigley.
[PHOTO 3]
Congratulating Samuel Tummarello on his retirement after 42 years service are John Flickinger, John Shepard, John Titley, Tummarello, Paul Tortorici and James Parechanian.
[PHOTO 4]
Edward M. Urashka—the fifth member of the family to work for Uniroyal—retired from Reclaim Shipping after 36 years service. From left in photo are William Leary, Huldah Flammia, Urashka, and Bryant Kirkendall.
[PHOTO 5]
Raymond Grele, Reclaim Production, center, retired after 42 years of service. At left is James Cronin, Factory Manager, and Bert Scullin, Superintendent of Reclaim Production.
[PHOTO 6]
Andrew Patskan, center, retired after 32 years of service in Reclaim Production. Congratulating him from left are Antonio Amador, and Paul Kazimir, right.
Plant…
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6 Drawings Held
As a result of the record, 6 drawings were held for 25-inch Sylvania color TV consoles—each with a value of $500—as part of the plantwide Safety Incentive Awards Program.
Two months previous 6 employees received B & W portable TV sets for the plants’ having attained 500,000 manhours without a Lost Time Accident.
Accidents Frequency—8.934;
Goals Are 12.0 And 9.0
From January 1 to June 30 employees worked 1,789,821 manhours with only 16 accidents during the 6 months compared to 33 for the same period in 1972.
The present accident frequency rate is 8.934 (the number of accidents per million manhours worked). If this frequency can be maintained for the rest of the year, two drawings for “2 Trips for 2” to Bermuda or Las Vegas; plus $500 in expense money; and one week’s pay will be held.
If the rate stays below 9.0, eligible employees will receive a 15 lb. turkey for Christmas.
Most of the accidents that did occur during the year were person-caused and could have been avoided by proper safety practices.
The present achievement indicates that Uniroyal Chemical people can be No. 1 in safety among Uniroyal plants. That’s where it belongs.
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“How The AA Works”
This story was written by an employee who had a drinking problem and joined the AA. Since it is the policy of AA to remain anonymous he requested that his name be withheld from the article, the second in a series.
Alcoholics Anonymous is a fellowship of men and women who share their experience, strength and hope with each other that they may solve their common problem and help others to recover from alcoholism. The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop drinking.
The key words in the above portion of AA’s well known preamble are desire, fellowship and share. Some alcoholics would rather die than stop drinking. Many do just that, although it is often a very slow agonizing death. For some, however, a time comes in their drinking career when they have “had” it with booze. They hit a “bottom” and do genuinely have a desire to stop drinking.
Such a person will find a big surprise in AA. The room at an AA meeting is filled with people who used to be unable to control their drinking, but who now don’t drink at all. They all seem to be in a good mood. Downright happy. They welcome a newcomer without question. I have never felt more welcome anywhere than I feel when I walk into an AA meeting. It is the best experience of fellowship I have ever had.
AA members help themselves and others to stay sober happily by sharing. There is a high level of honesty in AA. This is an unusual experience for the new member after years of being a real con artist that most wet alcoholics become. The sharing is made easy because of the high level of trust you automatically feel toward the members who have welcomed you with such unquestioning acceptance. By sharing each other’s experiences while drinking and experiences while gaining sobriety in AA, the members are able to identify with each other. They can see themselves more clearly when they recognize their own experience in someone else.
Seeing ourselves more clearly is the beginning of a process of change and growth. Old resentments begin to seem less important. We come to see that what other people do to us does not have to “drive us to drink.” We can live our own lives, one day at a time, without the crutch of booze. The crutch is replaced by a new source of strength. Gradually it dawns on us that AA is a spiritual program and that the members are turning their lives and their will over to the care of God, as they understand Him, rather than to booze.
The reliance on a higher power, or God, does not come easy for the newcomer bedeviled with pride and very often resentful toward his church or religious background. For those who maintain their sobriety in AA, this higher power ultimately wins out over such pride and resentment.
This leads to a series of steps toward self improvement which builds inner strength and makes staying sober easy and a pleasure.
Sobriety is not achieved through will power but through this higher power which operates through the fellowship.
This is the power that has kept me sober for the last ten years. In another issue I will share what AA has done for me.
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