June 1950 The Sohio News Page 5

Western Reserve Awards Degree To Sohio Night-School Student

By VANESSA GRIFFIN

Unlike most of Cuyahoga County's 2,900 new college graduates, Govert Teerlink, class of '50 at Western Reserve University, doesn't have to worry about getting a job. He has one in Marketing Revenue and Expense, Sales Accounting—has had it, in fact, all the while he was working for that diploma in business administration, with a major in accounting.

All that concerns Govert now is 1) passing the rest of the C.P.A. exam and 2) catching up on all the good times he and Johanna, his wife, missed with his being in classes at Cleveland College, the university's downtown center, four nights a week for four and one-half years.

Govert shows how he and Johanna came to Cleveland from homes in Dordrecht, Holland.

Life was much less complicated for the Teerlinks eleven years ago when, as honeymoon-ers, they left their native Holland aboard the Nieuw Amsterdam en route to Cleveland, where relatives lived.

As a full-charge bookkeeper in Holland, Govert had had to put in overtime each day, without extra pay, to prove he was sincerely interested in his job.

In 1941, though, his bookkeeping experience came in handy when he applied for a job with Sohio's Accounts Receivable. A year later he was

hitting school texts under the company's educational plan, but after one semester, or nine credit hours, he entered the United States Army.

"While I was away, in 1943," Govert explains, "Johanna began working in Marketing Revenue and Expense. Later, when I came back, I was transferred into that department to maintain a complete set of books for the Fleet-Wing Corporation." Johanna was assisting him on that job when she left Sohio in 1948.

By that time, under the G. I. bill, Govert's textbook-toting days were again under way. So much so, in fact, he found time for only one Rec Club function during that period, and just barely managed a vacation trip to Quebec, through New England, and on to Washington, D. C.

"But," concludes Govert, "most of that hectic cramming's behind me now. Well, for a year at least—I've promised Johanna to take a breathing spell." With a gleam in his eye he added, "After that I want to get to work on my master's degree!"

In Govert's own words, "One has to be born outside the United States to fully realize and appreciate the many blessings native Americans have come to take for granted."

Quarterly Report Reveals Drop in Net Earnings

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Total income from sales and other revenues increased about 2 per cent to $63,544,654 for the first quarter of 1950 from $62,-357,054 for the similar period of 1949. Total costs and expenses were approximately 4 per cent above the 1949 period.

Reflecting the increased demands for all products, Sohio refineries processed an average of 102,912 barrels of crude oil a day during the first quarter of 1950. This was 6^!/2 per cent above the average of 96,648 barrels processed daily in the similar period of 1949.

Sohio's net production o f crude oil and other liquid hydrocarbons averaged 28,638 barrels daily during the first quarter of 1950 as compared with a daily average of 32,420 barrels for the same period last year. The report states that the decline in daily average production was due in part to flood conditions in certain areas and in part to reductions in the allowable production per well ordered by regulatory authorities in several states.

Student Stars

Janet, daughter of W. L. Pernber, general chief clerk at Sohio Petroleum, Oklahoma City, was elected president of Alpha Chi Omega at Oklahoma A. and M., where she's a junior, majoring in Spanish and physical education.

Theresa Blonchek, a June graduate of James Ford Rhodes High, Cleveland, was a student star in dressmaking and business administration. Her dad, Steve, storekeeper at No. One Refinery, has been a Sohioan for 21 years.

Trauger Exhibits Pix at May Show

"Focus on Expansion," a picture by Staff Photographer John Trauger of Sohio's new cat-cracker at Lima Refinery, is one of the six out of seven entries he had accepted and exhibited at the Cleveland Museum of Art's 32nd Annual May Show.

This is the third year that John Trauger's photographs have been displayed at the May Show, a headline event in Cleveland's art world.

Win Third Place In Ted Mack Show

By CAROLYN POLAKIEWICZ

CLEVELAND - Selected from 1,100 auditions as one of ten acts to appear here May 18 on Ted Mack's Original Amateur Hour, Dick Devries, Home Office General Engineering draftsman, and the Knickerbockers, a quartet he organized three months ago, won third place by audience vote.

Titling their act "The Old Songs," the Knickerbockers sang "When You Wore a Tulip," "Put on Your Old Gray Bonnet," and "Wait 'til the Sun Shines. Nellie."

Modify Sohio's Vacation Plan

CLEVELAND - President C. T. Foster has announced several modifications in Sohio's Vacation Plan, effective April 27.

Modified to meet administrative needs, the changes affect regulations related to new employees, employees released, and employees who resign, are laid off, or die.

These and other modifications are defined in a new Vacation Plan booklet published by the Industrial Relations Department, and forwarded to the various industrial relations sections for distribution to their personnel.

New Officers Head Two Sohio Rec Clubs

New officers head Sohio Rec Clubs at the Cincinnati Division and at the Sohio Petroleum Company, Oklahoma City.

The Cincinnati group, called the 930 Recreational Club, is presided over by President Edward McNay, First Vice President George Botkin, Second Vice President Jack Kugele, Secretary Dorothy Norris, and Treasurer John VanCamp.

A week-end outing at Lake Murray is being planned by the newly-elected officials at Oklahoma City: R. L. McCor-mick, president; Peggy Dutton, vice president in charge of Social Activities; James Donnelly, vice president in charge of Athletic Activities; Pauline Rackley, secretary; and Grace O'Briant, treasurer.

Annuitants

Elbert S. Mann Cincinnati to Retire July 1

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E. S. Mann

Elbert S. Mann, who is in the Bulk Station Department at Cincinnati Division, will retire July 1.

First employed by Sohio as a driver on August 1, 1912, Mr. Mann later became agent at the old Oakley Bulk Plant. Then, when the bulk stations in Cincinnati were centralized a t Tennessee Avenue, he transferred to that location.

At the time of his retirement he was a clerk in the Bulk Station Department.

When asked what he planned to do after retiring, Elbert quickly replied, "Fish!" Izaak Walton's sport has long been his favorite.

He and his wife, Ethel, live at 30 Orchard Street, Arlington Heights, in Lockland, Ohio. They have one daughter, Viola F. Thompson.

I. F. Farr

Irven F. Farr

Fishing is also the favorite sport of Irven F. Farr, who retired April 1. Mr. Farr was a resident pumper in the Gorham area of the Sohio Petroleum Company at Russell, Kansas. His best fishing partner, he says, is his wife, Go1die. She catches a11 the big ones!

Mr. Farr first became associated with Sohio on September 1, 1943, when the Sohio Petroleum Company purchased the Nate Appleman Company.

Prior to that time he was employed as a Standard Oil dealer at Natoma, Kansas, and by the Central Petroleum Company.

The Farrs, who live at 626 East Twelfth Street, Hays, Kansas, have been enjoying more visits with their friends since Irven's retirement.

They have one son, Gordon Dale.

John Soederstrom

John Soederstrom, who has been on sick leave since November 14, 1949, retired from the Lithograph Can Factory June 1 after 38 years' service.

Born in Kingston, New York, January 17, 1887, Mr. Soederstrom was hired by Standard Oil as a pressman June 7, 1912. His training in the lithograph trade had been acquired during a ten-year period of employment with the American Can Company.

John, who lives at 5936 Cable Avenue, Cleveland, with his wife, Liddie, and a daughter, Ruth, says his favorite hobby is walking. He also enjoys flower and vegetable gardening.

The Soederstroms have three other daughters and a son, John.

Glenn Draper

A member of the supervisory and management group at Toledo Refinery for more than 23 years when he went on sick leave December 28, 1943, Glenn Draper retired June 1.

Mr. Draper, now bedridden with multiple sclerosis, was first employed by Standard Oil as a painter January 6, 1921. He held the positions of painter, yard, and labor foreman until February 1, 1941, when he became mason and painter foreman, the job he had when he became ill.

Born 55 years ago in Wake-man, Ohio, Glenn enjoys listening to the radio and visiting with refinery Sohioans who come out to see him.

He and his wife, Blanche, live on R. D. No. 5, Lima, right across from their son, Willard, who is a head treater at Lima Refinery. A unique telephone and loudspeaker set-up permits constant communication between Glenn's bedroom and his son's home.

James and Sally Heard

Mr. & Mrs. Sohio

By VIRGINIA KELLEY

Meet the J. W. Heards of Dayton Division—Sally clerks at two stations, Main and Bruen and Far Hills and Schantz, and Bill is an operator at Main and Siebenthaler.

Like so many other couples working for Sohio, they see definite advantages in husband and wife being employed by the same company.

"For one thing," says Bill, "we're both interested in the same things and the same people, and have more to talk about."

"And," adds Sally, "we can go home together. Bill helps me with the dinner and dishes. We can take our vacations at the same time, too."

High school classmates, Sally and Bill married three years after graduation.

Bill had been a Sohioan for six months when Sally joined the company in April, 1947. They agree that the best part of their jobs is meeting customers.

After-hours finds the Heards whizzing through household tasks as quickly as possible to have more time for sports. Sally likes sewing and gardening, too.

Gas Price Rises

CLEVELAND - Reflecting a general rise in the wholesale gasoline market throughout the country, Sohio, on May 24, announced a state-wide increase of 1/2 cent per gallon on all grades of gasoline sold at company stations.

Excluding tax, the new price on Sohio X-Tane is 19 cents per gallon.