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2 Flag Raised Plants No. 1 and No. 2 Safety Teams participated in a brief flag raising ceremony in which they raised a flag the Company received for improvement in safety performance. Following each recognition activity the flag flies over that location for several weeks to sym bolize the importance of achieving significant reduction in accidents. Clinton Chosen United Way Pacesetter Clinton Mills has been chosen by the United Way of Laurens County as its official pacesetter for the 1992/93 drive. As the pacesetter, Clinton will begin its campaign approximately two weeks earlier than others in the campaign and will attempt to ex ceed its previous levels of total campaign giving. Members of the respective plants’ United Way teams will select solicitors, carry out United Way promotion activities, and make the necessary reports. Plant No. 1 team members are Sammy Simpson, Carding; Martha Young, Spin ning; Kathy Croy and Pat Hill, Weaving; Wendy Croy, Cloth; Marshall Vaughan, Shop; Kim Bridges, Office; Phillip Owens, Warehouse; and Rufus Bluford, Outside. Plant No. 2 team members are Gary Kuykendall, Carding; Valerie Anderson, Spin ning; Bobby Quinn, Air Jet Weaving; Debbie Jones, Fly Shuttle Weaving; and Terry Chilton, Cloth. Lydia team members are Robert Smith, Carding; Mattie Grant, Spinning; Valerie Gregory, Weaving; Edna McGee, Cloth; and Mike McCall, Shop. Bailey Plant team members are Sonny King, Human Resources; Steve Floyd, Spin ning; Maxie Wallenzine and Ricky Warner, Shop; Joyce Sprouse, Spinning; Annie Foggie, Carding; Gene Floyd, Weaving; and Willie Greene, Cloth Room. ■ Quality First Health Care Benefit Plan Feedback Team The Health Care Benefit Plan Feedback Team for Clinton was formed in April, 1992. The fourteen (14) team members are representatives of our Clinton business unit. The purpose of this team is to provide sound feedback and recommendations from our Clinton Associates concerning our health care plan design. The objective of this project is to help identify methods to provide the best health coverage available at the most economical cost to the Company and our Associates. Quality First Health Care Benefit Plan Feedback Team is composed of: Seated (left to right) Isabell McGee - #2 Spinning; Harold Smith - Bailey Carding; Ida Tapp - #1 Spinning; Jim my Braswell - Clinton Shop; 1st Row Standing (left to right) Margaret Price - Purchasing; Nathlee Todd - Bailey Spinning; Mattie James - #1 Spinning; Jacques Gilliam - Lydia Human Resource; Back Row (left to right) Steve Wright - Lydia Cloth; John Walker - Lydia Weav ing; Joe Spillers - #2 Air Jet Weave; Steve Darbins - #2 Weaving; Willie Grant - Lydia Spin ning; Virgil Livingston - #1 Weaving. This team is studying ways to improve the Company’s medical care insurance program. Blood Drive Scheduled Clinton Mills Associates will participate in the Carolina-Georgia Blood Center Drive in the next few weeks. Associate support for the volunteer blood program is essential for the needs of the area’s 19 hospitals. Plant No. 2 Associates will participate in the once-a-year program, September 16th. Plant No. 1 and office donors will have a chance to give the gift of life on October 13th; and Lydia and Bailey Associates will roll up their sleeves for donating blood on October 23rd and November 24th, respectively. Cavanagh’s Daughter To Attend Yale Law School Elizabeth A. Cavanagh, the daughter of John and Maureen Cavanagh graduated with a B. A. in English with high honors from Dartmouth College in June. She was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, graduated Summa Cum Laude, was a Presiden tial Scholar, Rufus Choate Scholar and received the Arthur Feinstein Memorial Award for the Best Honors Thesis in the English Department. Elizabeth also received the Charles Howe Woodbury Law Scholarship. She ranked 5th in her class of 1,200 students with a final GPA of 3.94. Ms. Cavanagh was accepted at the Law Schools at Harvard, Stanford, New York University, The University of Chicago, Georgetown, Virginia, Columbia, and Yale. Elizabeth will attend Yale Law School in September. She is a former Bailey Foundation Scholarship winner, a Company sponsored scholarship. She has had two articles published in the “Suffolk Lawyer”, a New York legal publication. Congratulations to Elizabeth on her outstanding achievements and to her parents John and Maureen. Elizabeth A. Cavanagh Ambassador Sorini Visits Clinton Ambassador Ronald Sorini, President Bush’s Chief Textile Trade Negoti ator from Washington, D,C., visited Clinton in August to learn more about Clinton’s world class manufacturing operations and to discuss with Clinton Division Presi dent, Josh Hamilton, the status of international trade negotiations, stressing the contents of the North American Free Trade Agree ment which was recently concluded. Sorini was accompanied on tours of Plant #1, Plant #2 and Bailey by CEO, Thad Williams and Clinton Division President, Josh Hamilton. During his visit Sorini discussed the contents of the proposed North American Free Trade Agreement. “Clinton’s position is that we feel the agreement as explained to us is a fair deal to the textile industry and we support it,” stated Hamilton. Clinton has participated in trade discussions for many years. Robert Vance, Thad Williams and Josh Hamilton have served on industry groups advising the U.S. Trade Representative on matters affecting the textile industry. Williams currently serves on the Industry Policy Advisory Committee and Hamilton on the Textile Industry Sector Advisory Committee. Quality First Udates From Geneva 1st Shift Safety Team: This team’s mission is to develop and implement a Disaster Preparedness Plan. Their first project was to prepare for tornadoes. This team researched OSHA directives, developed a plan and received approval from the Steering Committee. This has left the team to complete plan implementation and train all CM personnel. As part of the Disaster Preparedness Plan, the 1st Shift Safety Team is shown the weather scanner and storm safety area. Team members are (left to right): Myra Thames, Donnie DeRouen, Joan Daum, Carl Holloway, Johnny Mathis, Earl Mims, Bobby Hall and Brad Hendrix. (Continued on page 3)