* * IT KEEPS YOU . POSTED * * DECEMBER, 1945 VOL. IV No.7

To The Men and Women of Wollensak ... A Merry Christmas ... In a World of Peace

As we look forward to our first peacetime

Christmas in four years, we of W ollensak may well feel that we have earned a holiday of joy and good cheer.

We've worked hard during these wartime

years. Yes, and every W ollensak worker has played a vital role in the Victory that brought

those years of strife to an end.

Now, at last, we can again join in the old-

fashioned celebrations that have always meant

"Christmas." We can rejoice in the homecoming of our friends and relatives in uniform. And we can look forward to a New Year in which we

will turn our efforts to the peacetime activities which were put aside until Victory was won,

Already here at Wollensak, we have start to take up once more the work for which W ollensak

won a world-wide reputation before the war. The

demand for our lenses and shutters . . . our bin-oculars, telescopes and other optical instruments

... is more than we can fill at present. By keeping

up the same fine record that we have held for the

past several years, we will be able to meet this

demand ... to give America's photographers and sportsmen the fine equipment for which they look

to the men and women of W ollensak. But for now- let's all enjoy our holiday to the

full. To each and every one of you, my sincere

wishes for a Merry Xmas and a happy and pros-

perous New Year!

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WOLLENSAK Sentry

EDITOR: Miriam Seabry Sports Editor: Leo Heberger

Cartoonist: Raphael Hildebrand Photographer: John Pres-utti

William Stenzel Myron Scharr Dolores Keppler Edmund Schell Geraldine Bleier Don Brown Geraldine Merkel Ruth Fox

Reporters: Leo Heberger Daniel Stiehler Edward_B_ralski Valeria Hasenauer Eugene Leary Nicholas Toste Edward Fichtner Luella Case

New Appointments Announced

Heavy demands for our products, bringing a need for more production, have again made it necessary to appoint new supervisors. Accordingly, Ed Springer has announced the following: Eustace Sippel, foreman of Rapax Shut-ters; Herbert Hommel, assistant foreman of Speedex Shutters, and Clarence Gerst-ner, assistant foreman of Rapa,x Shutters. Here, too, the appointments were made because of the ability of these men, from the standpoint of knowl-edge of the product and its component parts, as well as their supervisory ability.

CORRECTION In the last issue of THE SENTRY

we erroneously announced the ap-pointment of Harold Bayles to assist-ant foreman of the Drill Press Depart-ment. This should have read assistant foreman of the lens assembly, barrel and shutter assembly section. Richard Hayes was made assistant foreman in the Drill Press Department.

Coach Elmer Burnham presents softball trophy to Champ Don Brown

Wollensak Recreation Association Judging from the favorable comments,

the Sports-Dinner and Dance at the Doud Post December 8 was a success. Nearly 400 members enjoyed a turkey dinner, an enlightening talk on indus-trial recreation by Coach Elmer Burn-ham of the University of Rochester and a splendid talk by Vice-President Ed Springer. Following these two speakers, Toastmaster Leo Heberger gave a recapitulation of team and indi-vidual champions of the Wollensak Rec-reation Association of the past year. Representing the winners in the girls' bowling league Dorothy Smith received the "Wollensak" trophy from Mr. Frank Wollensak. Captain Fred Horch of the Lens Division champions stepped to the speaker's table to accept the J. Magin Trophy from Mr. Tom Hawks. In absence of Captain Al Drews, Bill Stenzel, Jr., a member of the winning bowling team in the Mechanical Bldg., received the E. A. Springer cup from Mr. Springer. Next was the presenta-

tion of the golf cup for the golf cham-pionship, which Charley Shug received from Mr. McNall. Don Brown, man-ager of the Browns, the departmental champions in softball, received the congratulations and a huge trophy from Elmer Burnham.

The floor show, composed mostly of Wollensak employees, followed the din-ner. Introduced by Chuck Loveless, master of ceremonies, Miss Norma Lawson directed the Wollensak Recre-ation Association choral singing soci-ety before their fellow workers.

Suggestion Winners Named

For his suggestion that a lamp holder socket be soldered by placing about 200 on a rack and heated in the Lacquer Room ovens approximately 8 to 10 min-utes, Vernon VanDorn was awarded a $75 Victory Bond. The former method used was to hold each one individually by pliers over a flame. The suggestion committee, upon investigation, learned that considerable time had been saved by this suggestion which has been in use for some time.

W ollensak Choral Society, Miss Norma Lawson directing

A $25 Victory Bond was awarded to Emil Nowak of the Lens Division for his suggestion for using a putty filler for filling the holes in castings. His sugges-tion was that the filler be made up of white lead and lacquer and be applied by hand using a steel spring blade. This forces the filler deep into the holes and after applying filler, parts are baked to insure hardness. This method proved bet-ter and faster than the old way of apply-ing a lacquer using a bmsh.

RAMBLERS SHOW WAY IN GIRLS' LEAGUE

Back in September the outlook for a girls' bowling league was any color but that of a rose; this year, however, after some adjustments regarding the place to roll, the league is now func-tioning smoothly every Friday on the Holy Redeemer slides. Posting the first recap of the team standings in the girls' circuit would show the Ramblers heading the pack with 15 victories and 12 short-ends; knotted in a dead heat for second place are the three other teams, Microscopes, Telescopes,, and Allscopes, with 13 and 14 record. Go-ing from the group to the individual column, the list is topped by "Sis" Hasenauer with a fine 138 average, fol -lowed closely by Millie Biller, Jane Hannah, Rosemary Shadle, and Doro - thy W oiciechoski. Millie Biller has high single-game with 183 and high three-game total with 447. Dorothy Woiciechoski has second money so far in the above departments with a 167, and 437. High three-games total of 1662 by the Telescopes and 1650 by the Allscopes hold the laurels in this department.

RAMBLERS HOLD SLIGHT EDGE IN MEN'S DIVISION

No, this is no typographical error; it is true the Ramblers are leading the 16-team men's bowling league, too. The Ramblers, composed of Captain Emil Nowak, Bob Bryson, Charley Shug, Joe Nowak and Gus Kimmel are at this writing fighting desperately to hold a one-game advantage over Jake Funk's Readers. The Ramblers jumped off to a fast start, but because of the good balance of the teams now, notably the Readers, Achromats, and

Shutter Makers Wanted

We are still in need of a few ex-perienced shutter assemblers (male). If you know of any with experience, kindly refer them to our Employment Office.

LEO by

HEBERGER

Betax, their lead is gradually being sliced. The remaining positions are well jumbled and any good evening's shelling by one of these middle and lower teams would put them up near the top. So we look for an exciting race in the men's quest for honors on 'the Sammy Mink's alleys on ,Fridays. Despite his long stay over in the ETO battle chasing the Jerries across the

Rhine until their hats floated , veteran Wally Liese is winging the maples with repeated consistency to hold a solid 187 average to lead the way in the individual column. Moving my optics down the list I find Eddie Bra!; ski posted a 636 total to edge Elmer Ward's 629, but Ward crayoned a high single-game of 267 which over-shadowed Jake Funk's fine game of 245. The Lenscotes piled the wood for a 2563 aggregate to put their bid in for that money, and the leading Ram-blers scorched the wood in one of their games for 956 for high single-team game. COMMERCIAL CONTROLS SPOIL COMPANY QUINT'S DEBUT 38-24

Although he is alleged to have the strongest basketball team W ollensaks have ever floored, Coach Paprocki had to settle for a fourteen-point loss to

W ollensak Girls' Bowling League

Personals The follow-ing newcomers to the Shutter Depart-ment are welcomed: Leonard Kaufman, Jesse Fox, Arthur Morsch, Harold Lu-bach, Elwood Mosele, Arnold Shapiro, Walter Letky, Edward Denk, Harold Williams, Rico Ferrari, Charles War-inga, Raymond Janiszewski, Charles Zimmer, Joseph Betkowski, Frederick Conge, Raymond Cridizilo, Robert Behner, Herman Hughes, Robert Henry, Leo J. Fox, Clifford Culver, Frederick Myers, James Champaigne, Edward- Kurmis, Elmer Schum, Ray-mond Kucuwicz, Leslie Bailey. To the Inspection Department, Josephine Gugosky, Dorothy Ellwanger.

the strong Commercial Controls five in their opening encounter in the Higbie Independent basketball league. Ragged defensive play in this fray was their downfall. However, energetic Coach Paprocki has his squad working out the flaws in their defense. Employees are invited to attend these league games at Edison Tech on Tuesday and Thursday evenings.

The Leaders- The Ramblers

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Personals and Personalities . THIS AN' THAT: "Bud" Meyer has returned to his old job in the Punch Press Department after 3½ years with the 8th Air Force ... Tommy O'Brien, Lens Building, is stationed in Ne-braska, waiting to be shipped. Good luck, Tom; we hope you stay in the U. S. A .... The :first floor also wel-comes back Eddie Chizuk who has re-turned to the plating room after serv-ing a few years with the Armed Forces ... What is there about a steam shovel down in Pennsylvania that- makes Leo Kosmicki blush every time you talk about it? . . . We are sorry to report the death of Earl Munkes' mother No-vember 11. Earl is a new member of the Automatic Screw Machine Depart-ment ... Joe Haag is in the real estate business now, and claims he can put money in your pocket if you are buy-ing or selling a piece of property. See Joe for further details ... We all won-der why George Uthe couldn't hear the voice on the telephone. Could it be that he had the telephone reversed-the mouthpiece by his ear, and vice-versa? ... Hank Kehrig was somewhat reheved when he found out that it was only a wild rumor that Bill Smith and Clete Schneider were going to start a duck farm to compete against him ... And speaking of ducks, when it comes to buying ducks John Krombach is no judge. It was noised around that re-cently John bought one, but it looked more like a seagull. Not being able to tell the difference, John was afraid to take it home, so the last report is that it found 1ts way to the boiler room . gang ... Martha Dziuba is confined to her home due to injuries received in an automobile accident. cHere's hoping you ll be back with us, soon, Martha ... Florence Lord spent a weekend in New York to see the Army-Navy game, but we're wondering if it wasn't a certain Frank who made New York so inviting ... If you see a car commg towards you on the sidewalk, don't be afraid; it's only Myrtle Gos-nell learning to drive . .. Reason for Helen Harmon's big smile these days is her boyfriend's two-week furlough

Betty Beckwith is back after hav-ing her tonsils removed . . . Dotty G1baud spent a week in Pennsylvania visiting her future in-laws and her fu-ture home . . . Also in Pennsylvania was Nellie Daniels, who spent a week with her son, Vic . . . How long is three weeks, or just when is Betty Wheatley going to get her car out of the garage? ... There's a new attrac-tion on the second floor, Lens, and may we say the centerers have "blonde

fever"? ... Watch out, Howie Wie-gane, or Art Shank will outrun you in this wolf race . . . We're glad to see Luella Case back after being hospital-ized . . . What a commotion a poor little mouse can cause among the gals on the 2nd floor, Lens ... Must be he wasn't feeling good; he headed in the :first aid room, but Viola Wehner didn't . care much about helping him out with first aid ... Our sympathy is extended to John Jankowiak on the loss of his wife, to Viola Wehner on the loss of her mother, and to Donald and Mrs. Sandusky on the loss of their baby son . . . Both Cliff and Gene Brone, U. S. Navy, visited their friends in the Lens Building. They were cor-dially welcomed by everyone. We hope they are back with us very soon . . . We slipped, but we can't let this im-portant item go by-our congratula-tions to Mrs. and Mr. Bill Weiden-borner on their baby daughter, who arnved August 6, and is named Judy

Want Ads WANTED: Male long haired kitten

_. . . F . . Buck, Centering Department. WANTED TO BUY: Good,. used play pen . . . Herb Schwartz, Projec-tion Lens Dept.

Baby push sleigh . . . Louis Tim-mons, Projection Lens Dept. FOR SALE OR TRADE: P-38 Ger-man Pistol. Will sell or trade for en-larger . . . Jerry Lioy, third floor, Me-chanical. FOR SALE: Bridesmaid dresses, bro-caded-1 blue, size 12; 1 blue size 14 ; 1 pink, size 14 . .. Gordon Heberger' Projection Lens Department. '

Storm door, 7 feet long, 34 inches wide ... Mrs. Keppler.

Home raised turkeys, live or dressed . .. Henry Kehrig, Molding Room. . Combination gas range and stove, $40 . .. John Abel, Prism Grinding.

Anne If any one wants to argue politics, just contact Charles Rosen-green. He'll take either side ... An-other new arrival we' re a bit late in reporting-Gary Leon Ennis at the Bob Ennis', a 10-pounder who made his debut October 21 . . . A shower was held at Mary Schweitzer's for Louise Ongenaers, also a Department dinner at 844 Clinton Avenue North. Louise was married to Bob McDonald on December 1 . . . Mary Van Schoo-nacker changed her name on Novem-

ber 3 to Mrs. Ray Kockert. A dinner was given in her honor at Bill and Louise's and several showers ... Well, girls, Howard Weigand has done it. He gave his girl a diamond; lucky Vio-let : .. June Kowalski is waiting very patiently for the arrival of Bernie from Europe ... Sure hope he makes it for Christmas .. . Newcomers to the office are Rosemary Shadle, Jean Kee-gan, Marjorie Buechl, Florence Harter and Winona Erhlot . . . The girls of the office had a very nice Christmas. party at the Rochester Club Decem-ber 13 . . . A hearty "welcome home" is ·extended to Art Sullivan, who re-cently returned to Wollensak ... It was also nice to see Vito Zugnoni, who was home for 10 days, when he dropped in to say "hello" to the boys in the Screw Machine Department. Vito was lookmg :fine, and is as fit as a fiddle . . . Another comer-homer from the Screw Machine Department was George Janneck, recently returned from Germany and discharged from the Army. Welcome home, George, and congratulations and best wishes to you and' Betty Dickinson on vour com- ing marriage .. . 1945 BROUGHT TO WOLLENSAK: Second Production Star awarded January 25 ... Lens Building raffles bond each month for their men in service, followed by the :first floor, Me-chamcal ... New addition to Wollensak: Inspection Department and. Chemical Lab move into new quarters· ... Wollensak workers pledge over $4,000 to Red Cross ... Ed Springer elected Vice-President ... Engineering Department and Manufac-turing and Production Offices move to new and larger quarters ... Wollensak's record of blood donations shows 841 pints of blood given by W ollensak em-ployees-a record to be proud of . . . Wollensak is saluted on Bond Drive Pro-gram broadcast from Main Street ... Wollensak entertains Canadian G. I.'s in Canada Day celebration . . . W ollensak goes over the top in the 7th War Loan with $101,600 in bond purchases ... Third star is added to our "E" Flag Au-gust 28 ... W ollensak converts to peace-time production after V-J Day ... The close of 1945 shows the following re-turned veterans:

Thomas Sullivan, Gerald LeForce, Francis Wahl, Raymond Fackelman, Elmer Ward, Carl Bunde, Fred Elliott, Ellsworth Bauer Chester Klajbor, Edmund Lester, Oscar Lawless, Ar-thur Meyers, John Erion, Norman Klos, Irwin Phelps, Joseph Nowakowski, James Richards Walter O'Neill, James Brockler, Charles Cull : Edward Bamberski, James Champaigne, Don-ald Delles, Rtchard Gross, Walter Wiemer, Elmer Blum, . Roy Gresus, Gerard Lioy, May-nard Hoyt, Herbert Schicker, Elmer Schum Daniel Webb, Ray Wright, Philip Kondorf, Thaddeus Ptaszek, Arthur Schenk, Joseph Yanklowski, Dewey Baird, Joseph Meldrum, Victor Radtke, Clifford Brone Wallance Liese, Norman Morsch, Albert Melino, John Ktlchman.

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