232 variety of projects and tasks for many smart and professional men. It was never boring and I learned so much along the way. We were so involved with our customers and developing business all over the world. It made it very exciting and interesting. — Ellen Campbell WITH FAMILY I started to work on October 22, 1951. I was in the shop. Did just about everything – welding, operating machines, milling machines, grinder, boring mills. Then I became a Foreman in 1973. That’s 41 years, two months and nine days, and I never regretted a day. This place was like a family. We used to go out either golfing, bowling, playing baseball, dirt bike riding, roller skating, or anything; and it would be a ‘family’ thing. — John Halcomb INTERTWINED WITH WESTERN STATES Parker, as a young man, worked for a company in Denver – Stearns-Rogers, who manufactured and sold equipment to factories in the sugar industry. Somehow, T. B. Stearns, president of Stearns- Rogers, got involved with Roberts at Western States. Dudley Parker came to Western States as a Stearns representative. My grandfather, Oscar Wood Moyle, was an attorney in Salt Lake City. How he got involved with Western States, I don’t know. Dudley Parker used to come to Salt Lake to spend time with my grandfather. I presume they were mapping out what they were going to do with WSMC for the distant future. I did a lot of chauffeuring for my grandfather who had bad eye sight, and his children did not want him to be driving a car because he was dangerous on the road. As a result, I got to know Parker because of that experience and I knew him before I ever started working at Western States. Another twist to the story; in 1945, I was stationed in the New London, Connecticut on a destroyer escort. Western States had their board of directors meeting in New York. My grandfather and grandmother were there. My Uncle Oscar who was Oscar Wood Moyle Jr., (a future board member) also a legal man, was there. I met Roberts with his wife, too. Dean Dove and his wife were there. I met them all. And Farrell Roberts (another future board member) was also there. At the time, Farrell was a lieutenant in the Navy. Later on in the evening, Dean Dove, my uncle Oscar, his wife Cheryl, and I went out on the town in New York for a night. Then I was “dumped” on a train at about three o’clock in the morning. It took two hours to get back to New London. When I got off the train, there were no taxis. It was five o’clock in the morning so I walked to the city pier which was about a mile and a half away. I got on board the ship. I’d just laid my head on the pillow, when all of the bells and whistles sounded and we were underway. Fate intervened again. The way I got involved at Western States was happenstance too. I belonged to the Phi Delta Theta Fraternity. Our chapter in Utah was in trouble for bad scholastic endeavors. I was secretary at the time. The other officers of the CHAPTER 15