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New Associate Orientation
New Signs
In recent weeks, Associates began
noticing the Clinton identifier appear
ing on plant signs, as the Company
replaced those bearing the familiar CM
which had previously served as the
Company’s logo.
The signs, most with blue back
grounds with contrasting aluminum let
tering, bear the Clinton identifier which
is also appearing in newspaper and
trade publication ads, letterheads, and
other visual forms.
Clinton in its stylized form serves as
an umbrella name for Clinton Mills, Inc. and Clinton Mills Sales Company. In this
capacity, Clinton is the corporate identifier. Secondly, the name functions as the iden
tifying symbol for the products produced by the Companies under the Clinton umbrella.
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Clinton Mills Does More Than “Talk”
About The Importance Of Education
In recent weeks Clinton people have been out in the community working as volunteers
and doing their part as evidence of the company’s long held commitment to education
and community involvement. Education, like the weather, is a topic that everybody
talks about and nowadays more than ever before — but very few people do anything
about. Clinton people are different, they get out, participate and make a contribution.
Paul Fallaw, Management Information Systems, contributes his Wednesday lunch
hour weekly to teach computer technology to students at Martha Dendy Middle School.
Focusing on computer operation, programming, problem solving, Fallaw is able to
share his expertise with an average of five students each Wednesday. He says he hopes
“to broaden each student’s creative abilities through the use of computer technology.”
Clinton’s Quality First Director, George M. Grant, presented a Total Quality Manage
ment overview to some sixty economics students at Presbyterian College. Grant shared
Clinton’s Quality First Mission Statement with the students and detailed its meaning
and purpose. TQM (Total Quality Management) is the most popular abbreviation since
TGIF. TQM is an umbrella term for the Quality programs that have spread through
U.S. business in the past dozen years. Nation’s Business (May ’92) called TQM “critical
to survival.” George Grant’s presentation gave these P.C. students a unique opportuni
ty to get a real life view of TQM in action.
James Buchanan, Human Resources Director and Mack Parsons, Communications
Manager, represented Clinton Mills during Career Day at Laurens District 56 High
School this Spring. Information on the company was shared with students attending
the Career Day function which included plant operation and products produced as
well as Clinton’s expectations from potential Associates and the opportunities for careers.
Clinton Mills and the Laurens County Literacy Association work as partners in pro
viding educational opportunities for those who need help with such basic skills as
reading, writing and math.
As evidence of that partnership, Clinton sponsored a spelling team in the annual
Laurens County Literacy Association Spelling Bee. Participants from Clinton in the
’92 event were Mack Parsons, Bluford Vaughan and Bill Hill, with Kim Bridges serving
as alternate speller.
James Buchanan, Human Resources Director, Bill Hill represent Clinton in the ’92
presents the Clinton Mills story at Laurens District Laurens County Literacy Association
56 High School’s Career Day. Annual Spelling Bee.
Paul Fallaw, Management In
formation Systems, shares his
lunch hour and computer ex
pertise each Wednesday with
Martha Dendy Middle School
students.
Bailey Plant Human Resource
Manager Sonny King, center, ex
plains Associate benefits, policies,'
and the Company’s expectation of
new Associates in one of three
Associate orientation sessions. The
classroom instruction is conducted
each week in the education center
and gives new Associates a com
plete understanding of their job, the
Company, and the rules they are
expected to observe.
Included is an explanation of group insurance benefits, retirement plan, safety, hours
of work, pay policy, procedures and regulations, and other benefits.
Clinton Mills Basketball Team Wins Trophy
William Mims holds the Consolation Trophy which the Clin
ton Mills basketball team won in the ’92 Southern Textile Basket
ball Tournament. Winning five out of six, Clinton’s team lost
the tournament 67-43 to Westinghouse. Team members include:
Olan Robinson, Kenyon Robinson, Willard Hester and Thomas
Gary, all of Lydia Weave along with George McMorris, Tony
Mobley and Steve Coleman from No. 2 Weave, as well as
William Mims, Lydia Maintenance, pictured here.
Gary D. Smith Joins Clinton
Gary D. Smith has joined Clinton Plant No. 1 as
Superintendent of Carding and Spinning. Smith, a native
of Cherokee, North Carolina, is a graduate of Clemson
University and was previously associated with Milliken
and Company.
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James Williams Promoted
James Williams has been promoted from first shift
Winder Technician to Assistant Spinning Superintendent
third shift, according to Baily Plant Manager Joe Aiton.
James succeeds Ken Oles who transferred to the first
shift.
Quality First In Geneva
The Quality First effort in Geneva is maturing into its second stage of development.
In the first stage teams were formed to solve specific problems. This is the way most
companies begin, but Total Quality Management (TQM) involves much more — the
identification of systems and processes and the continuous development and improve
ment of these systems and processes.
Beginning the second stage, the Geneva Steering Committee has charged each depart
ment manager to identify, study and improve all of the systems and processes in their
respective departments emphasizing the philosophies, concepts and tools of TQM and
the Clinton Mills Mission Statement.
To accomplish this, each department is developing a Quality First Action Plan (QFAP)
which will provide goals and timetables for implementation. Some of the concepts
being addressed are culture and environment, systems thinking, leverage, continuous
improvement, customer/supplier relationships, paradigms, key measures, operational
definitions, design of experiments, the Deming Philosophy, Statistical Process Con
trol (SPC), and team work.
In the 4th Quarter of 1992 we will be introducing the concept of Cost of Quality
in a meaningful way that can be integrated into our QFAP. This will include prevention
costs, appraisal costs and failure costs.
The Geneva Steering Committee will synthesize the departmental QFAP’s into a
complete system. Here, we will be working to: eliminate anything in the organization
that creates or maintains divisiveness and barriers; promote activities that create a
climate of collaboration and communication; use themes to draw people together; plan
processes at a macro and micro level; establish a team effort that involves working
together on a win-win basis with all those who influence the work of the enterprise.
The accompanying graphs may be helpful in understanding the power of the TQM
effort in Geneva.
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