Simpson Announces Major Management Promotions

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l\{ajor management promotions in the 56-year-old Simpson Logging Company, a leading Pacific Northwest wood products manufacturing firm, have been announced by W. G. Reed, board chairman.

Thomas F. Gleed, former president of the Seattle-First National Bank, was named president of Simpson. Gleecl relieves Reed, rvho having servecl as both president and chairman, will in the future devote his full time to board duties. Gleed has been a director of Simpson the past nine years.

Charles E. Devlin, general sales manag'er, was name<l vice president-sales, and C. Henry Bacon, Jr., general manager of Simpson's Shelton Working Circle operations in Mason and eastern Grays Harbor counties of Washington State, was promoted to vice president-operations.

tor; C. E. Runacres; Sr., of Shelton, Washington, vice president and comptroller; Geo. L. Drake, of Shelton, vice president; J. A. Priest, Seattle, secretary; and A. R. Green, Seattle, assistant secretary and assistant treasurer.

The Simpson Logging Company maintains executive and general sales offices in Seattle. Lumber, plywood, doors, insulation board products and acoustical products are manufactured at the company's Shelton and McCleary, Washington plants, and redwood lumtrer is produced at Simpson plants in Klamath and Arcata, California.

Changes in the Simpson sales organization were also made known by Devlin as becoming effective July 1.

C. L. "Les" Emery, for the past five years manager of Simpson's New York sales office, becomes assistant general sales manager at the general office in Seattle. Emery was WPB Administrator of the Plywood Limitation Order during the late years of World War II and previous to the war was a partner in the Renn-Emery Companv, a ply_ wood sales organization.

J. A. Werle, in plywood and lumber sales in the general office for the past six years, has been promoted to regional sales manager of the Northwest region rvith offices in Seattle, and in charge of the sales of all company products for Washington, Oregon, fdaho, rvestern Montana, British Columbia and Alaska.

W. W. Forrest has been named regional sales manager of the Central region in Chicago, opening a new office there. Previously, he was assistant district sales manager in San Francisco.

P. D. Kelly, territory salesman in Amarillo, Texas, has been transferred to New York City as salesman for in_ sulating board products, doors and plywood.

H. O. "Bud" Puhn, logging manag.er, was promoted to the post of general manager of the Shelton Working Circle, which comprises all the logging and manufacturing opera- tions in the Pacific Northwest. Puhn, a native of Elma, Washington, has been logging since he was seventeen. Other members of Simp.son's top management are C. H. Kreienbaum, of San Francisco, vice chairman and direc_

Don J. Mescher, territory salesman in Kansas City, has been promoted to senior salesman for the new Southwest regional sales office with headquarters in the same city. He will now be responsible for the sale of all company products for the area immediately adjacent to Kansas City.

R. H. Fletcher has moved to the general sales office in Seattle as an assistant in plywood and door sales. previ-

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Larcy Hansen, of the Arcata sales office is transferred to San Francisco as salesman for redwood lumber.

Regional sales offices of the company are located in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Fargo, Kansas City, St. Louis, Shreveport, Chicago and New York as well as Seattle.