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Box 2

 Container

Contains 74 Results:

"Pigments Department Activities," speech by Dawson, Design Division meeting, 1947 May 25

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 2
Accession: 2817Identifier: 2817-III.
Scope and Contents:

Revised for Chicago DuPont Circle meeting, February 2, 1948.

Dates: 1947 May 25

Staff meeting notes, 1948-1950, 1954

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 3
Accession: 2817Identifier: 2817-III.
Scope and Contents:

Includes Baltimore staff meeting, Research Division Heads meeting, and Waynesboro staff meeting.

Dates: 1948-1950; 1954

Pigments Department speech and outline, 1950

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 5
Accession: 2817Identifier: 2817-III.
Scope and Contents:

On plant safety and Newport Chemical Division update.

Dates: 1950

Sales meeting talks (outlines), 1950, 1954-1960, 1962, 1964-1966

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 6
Accession: 2817Identifier: 2817-III.
Scope and Contents:

Includes general sales, freon, trade, refinish, industrial and biochemical, x-ray, plastics (resins), and elastomers.

Dates: 1950; 1954-1960; 1962; 1964-1966

Speeches by other DuPont executives, 1951, 1961, 1975

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 9
Accession: 2817Identifier: 2817-III.
Scope and Contents:

Includes: "Research - the Great Reformer," by Crawford H. Greenewalt and "Scientists, Inventors and Executives," by James B. Conart at DuPont Company's Experimental Station dedication; transcript New York Society of Financial Analysts Meeting with representatives of Management of DuPont Company: Thomas Lenagh, Donald Macurda, Crawford H. Greenewalt, R. Russell Pippin, and Samuel Lenher; and "DuPont in a New Business Environment," remarks by Edward G. Jefferson, Chemical Engineering Seminar, The Playhouse.

Dates: 1951; 1961; 1975

Outlines for talks at employee meetings, 1952-1954

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 11
Accession: 2817Identifier: 2817-III.
Scope and Contents:

Includes Chemical Division, DuPont engineering recruitment, "The Conflict and Balance Between 'Quality Maintenance' and 'New Product or Process' Research," "Operating Department's Responsibility for Technical Program," "Upstream Management," and "The Manufacturing Division's Job."

Dates: 1952-1954

"Safety Begins Here" booklet, 1956

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 13
Accession: 2817Identifier: 2817-III.
Scope and Contents:

E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company, Employee Relations Department, Safety and Fire Protection Division, Wilmington, Delaware.

Dates: 1956

Remarks by Dawson, Directors' Safety Award, 1958-1959, 1969-1972

 File — Box: 2, Box: 16
Accession: 2817Identifier: 2817-III.
Scope and Contents:

Includes notes, a program, and memoranda.

Dates: 1958-1959; 1969-1972

Memorials and instructions regarding Dawson's death , 1964, 1977-1978

 File — Box: 2, Box: 19
Accession: 2817Identifier: 2817-III.
Scope and Contents:

Includes a letter to Dawson's children outlining his and his wife's wishes upon their deaths, letters from the DuPont Company to Dawson's widow bestowing various honors and condolences, and a memorial concert program and invitation.

Dates: 1964; 1977-1978

DuPont Veterans' Association talk by Dawson, outline, 1965 October 5

 File — Box: 2, Box: 20
Accession: 2817Identifier: 2817-III.
Scope and Contents:

Pennsgrove, New Jersey.

Dates: 1965 October 5

Public Relations Department staff meeting talks by Dawson, 1967 January 30, 1969 May 12, 1972, 1975

 File — Box: 2, Box: 21
Accession: 2817Identifier: 2817-III.
Scope and Contents:

Includes a memorandum with attachment of graduate student engineering enrollment data for the years 1967 through 1971 and a memorandum about a CBS interview with Richard Heckert.

Dates: 1967 January 30; 1969 May 12; 1972; 1975

"Venture Development Management: Lessons from the Past," speech by Dawson, Development Managers meeting, Hotel du Pont, 1973 January 12

 File — Box: 2, Box: 26
Accession: 2817Identifier: 2817-III.
Scope and Contents:

Includes annotated draft, official transcript, notes, and memoranda.

Dates: 1973 January 12

Talk by Dawson, Louisville Paint, Varnish, and Lacquer Association, 1948 February 10

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 28
Accession: 2817Identifier: 2817-IV.
Scope and Contents:

Untitled. Regarding the supply of titanium pigments.

Dates: 1948 February 10

Speech by Dawson, Professional Association and Foreman's Club, Niagara Falls Plant, 1958 October 9

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 36
Accession: 2817Identifier: 2817-IV.
Scope and Contents:

Untitled. Regarding the status of the DuPont Company, including the General Motors-DuPont suit.

Dates: 1958 October 9

"The Scientist's Place in Industry," Amhurst College, Sigma Xi Society, 1958 November 6

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 38
Accession: 2817Identifier: 2817-IV.
Scope and Contents:

Includes a newspaper clipping about the speech from the student newspaper.

Dates: 1958 November 6

Talk outline by Dawson, Ceramics Industry Conference, 1959 June 18

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 39
Accession: 2817Identifier: 2817-IV.
Scope and Contents:

Untitled. Provides an overview of the organization of the DuPont Company.

Dates: 1959 June 18

"Industry's Changing Needs for People and Skills," address by Dawson for publication by the Council for Basic Education, 1959

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 40
Accession: 2817Identifier: 2817-IV.
Scope and Contents:

Based on the speech before the National Congress of Parents and Teachers. Includes correspondence regarding a published version by "The Education Digest," printed without Dawson's permission.

Dates: 1959

"Contributions of Science Supplying Food for a Changing World: Solutions to Problems from the Chemical Industry Viewpoint," speech by Dawson, Symposium on "Science and Food--Today and Tomorrow" by the Food Protection Committee, National Academy of Sciences, National Research Council, 1960 December 8, 1960 July-1961 July

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 46-49
Accession: 2817Identifier: 2817-IV.
Scope and Contents:

Includes drafts, notes, final version, program, correspondence regarding symposium planning, felicitations on Dawson's speech, and follow-up comments or questions. There is a set of correspondence related to a woman named Bertha Zembrod who writes him concerning his stance on food additives and additional public health tests for safety. Copies her letter to other leaders in the industry are present. Dawson sends a concerned response to her and copies the same recipients.

Dates: 1960 December 8; 1960 July-1961 July

Speech by Dawson, New Jersey Chemical Industry Council, Trenton, New Jersey, 1962 January 22

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 51
Accession: 2817Identifier: 2817-IV.
Scope and Contents:

Untitled. Regarding the relationship between the chemical industry and the state of New Jersey. Includes seminar program and DuPont News article about Dawson's speech.

Dates: 1962 January 22