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War Production ...... l 'K o d a k flv1fles. . . I '"• p·JCtures ......
Suggestion System ...... l Future Outlook ...... 6
V 1s1flng Nurses ...... 2 Retirement Annuities ...... 6
Life Insurance ...... 2 Cafeterias ...... 6
Vacations ...... 2 Disability Payments ...... 6
Payments to Servicemen ...... 2 Camera Clubs ...... 6
Kodakers in Service ...... 2 Legal Advice ...... 6
Income and FOAB Taxes ...... 2 George Eastman ...... 7
Rochester Hospital Service ...... 2 Medical Departments ...... 8
Kodak Income and Expenses, 1944 ...... 3 Eastman Savings & Loan ...... 8
Wage Dividends ...... 3 Sickness Allowance ...... 8 Company's Plants ...... 3 Safety ...... 9 Employees' Guidebook ...... 3 War Bonds, Red Cross, Community Kodak Spirit ...... 4 Chest, Blood Bank ...... 9
Camera Quiz ...... 4 Recreation Clubs ...... 9
Servjce Flag ...... 4 Sports Act1v1fles ...... l 0
This special issue of KODAKERY was prepared for people newly associated with the Company to acquaint them with Kodak ... its people .. . its production .. . its policies. It is distributed to all in the Company in the belief that it will prove of interest to them and their families. Kodak Code of Industrial Relations The Code of Industrial Relations, reprinted here from the about the Company which may be of particular interest to Employees' Guidebook, is not new. It is a summary. ar them. The Code represents the aims and purposes of Com ranged in somewhat formal manner, of long-established pany management, their fulfillment being constantly worked Company policies. It seems appropriate to include the Code for. At the present time. various governmental controla in this special ediJion of KODAKERY published to give the prevent the application of some of these policies to as full men and women. newly associated wiJh Kodak, information an extent as would otherwise be possible.
The following policies and principles recognition of the contribution made by effort to provide and maintain sanitary governing the relationship between the the loyal, steady, and effective efforts of working conditions. Protective clothing is Company and its employees comprise the Kodak people to the Company's success. supplied by the Company whe11ever it is Code of Industrial Relations of the East Payment of the wage dividend in any deemed necessary for safety or health man Kodak Company. year is dependent upon the dividends de reasons. clared on the Company's common stock 1. Wages and upon special action by the d irectors. 12. Hiring Ages Wage rates are established on the basis The Company has not established, and of fairness to the individua l for the work 6. Retirement Annuities, Life Insur has no intention of establishing, any arbi he is doing. It is the Company's intention ance. and Benefits for Total and trary age limit beyond which applicants (within governmenta l wage and salar y Permanent Disability will not be hired, provided they are phys stabilization limits): The Company assists employees in pro ically and mentally able to perform the 1. To maintain uniform wage stand viding for themselves and for their fami work. ards which will insure equitable wage lies against old age, disability, and death. No one below the age of 16 is hired in payments throughout all divisions of For this purpose, a program of payments, any department. the Company and, consistent with this, based upon length o! service and amount 13. Promotion 2. To pay wages equal to or above o! earnings, has been established through The Company aims to provide channels those generally prevailing in the com a group contract between the Company of promotion and to advance employees munity for similar work performed un and the Metropoli tah Life Insurance Com to more responsible work on the basis of der comparable conditions and requir pany. While sharing the cost o! the li!e their record of workmanship, competence, ing like r esponsibility, experience, ef insurance with those who are insured, and general ability. Insofar as practicable, fort, and skill. the Company pays the Cull cost of the re promotions will be made from within the Constant attention is required, and is tirement annuities. It also pays the full organization. cost of disability benefits after the indi being given, to developing and maintain 14. Layoffs and Re-employment ing this policy. vidual has had 15 years of service, having shared the cost of these benefits with him In the event of business conditions re 2. Hours of Work up to that point. quir ing reduction in the force, considera tion will be given to individual ability, The hours of work on which overtime 7. Sickness Allowance pay is based are eight hours per day and workmanship, length of service, general 40 hours per week. Time worked in excess Under an established plan, employees record, and financial and family circum of eight hours per d ay or 40 hours per absent on account of illness are paid defi stances. T he same factors will determine week is paid for at time and a half, except nite allowances based on their length of the rehiring of any who may have been in the case o! certain classifications o! staff service and their earnings. laid off. and supervisory people. Overtime pay 8. Freedom of Discussion with Man 15. Medical Service ments for any particular week are based agement Adequate medical personnel and equip either on the amount of daily overtime or The Company can not emphasize too ment are available in case of accident or the amount of weekly overtime, whichever strongly its desire that all employees shall illness at work. Special attention is given will give the greater amount. feel free to seek information or advice to the avoidance of health hazards and to Work on a seventh consecutive day of from the management on any matter the placement of employees in work for work is considered over time but is paid which is troubling them, or to call at which they are physically adapted. Cor at the rate of double time. tention to any condition which may appear 16. Savings and Home-Financing Hours worked on any day w hich have to them to be operating to their d isad been ca lculated at overtime rates will not vantage. No employee need hesitate to A plan for systematic saving and for fi again be included when arriving at over do this, and his standing with the Com nancing the purchase of homes is avail time hours over 40 for the week. pany will not thereby be prejudiced in able through the Eastman Savings & Loan Work on the six holidays observed by any way. He will find his foreman or su Association, a corporation organized in the Company- namely, New Year's Day, per visor or the plant employment depart dependently of the Eastman Kodak Com Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor ment ready to talk over any of these mat pany and operated under the Banking Day, Thanksgiving, and Christmas- is ters and to give any assistance they can. Law of the State of New York. paid for at the rate of time and a half. The Company believes that most diffi 17. Educational Assistance When work is done on a holiday which culties will be satisfactorily adjusted be The Company encourages employees to happens also to be the employee's seventh tween the employee and the foreman or pursue suitable courses of study which consecutive day of work, it will be paid supervisor ; but, if for any reason an em will help them in their work, and re for as a seventh day and not as a holiday. ployee is not satisfied with such adjust funds part of the tuition when the re 3. Stability of Employment ment, he is and should feel completely quirements of the course have been met at liberty to bring the matter to the at satisfactorily. There are wide seasonal variations in tention of anyone in the management. the demand for many of the Company's 18. Apprentice Training products. In order to avoid, so far as pos 9. Improveme nts in Methods and A systematic plan ·or apprentice training sible, the effect of these seasonal varia Processes is in operation. It gives opportunity for the tions upon stability of employment, the The continual development and intro training of young men in various trades. Company for many years has given con duction of new and improved methods and 19. Suggestion System stant attention to the planning of its pro processes are necessary to the success duction schedules. As a result, a marked ful conduct of the business; and only by The Company welcomes constructive stability of employment has been achieved. utilizing such improvements can the Com suggestions from employees on all mat This planning program can not, of pany continue to provide stable employ ters in connection with the business. All course, prevent lessened employment ment at ad equate wages. Nevertheless, be suggestions are impartially considered and when business in general is bad and the fore such improvements are made, care cash awards are made for original ideas demand for the products of the Company ful attention is given to any possible effect adopted and put into operation. is greatly reduced. upon the individuals concerned. This pol 20. Employee Co-operation 4. Vacations with Pay icy makes it possible to adopt improved Since the success of any company de Annual vacations with pay, to provide methods essential to the growth of the pends very lar gely on the ability fairly a period of rest and relaxation, are al Company and at the same time to avoid to satisfy the interests of customers, em any considerable hardship to the indi ployees, and stockholders, and since this lowed all those hired on a regular full vidual. time basis. Subject to the rules of eligibil responsibility can be met only with the ity, those who have completed one year 10. Safety wholehearted co-operation of all the em of continuous service in general factory The Company has endeavored for years ployees, the management anticipates such employment receive one week of vacation to lessen the accident hazards in its plants co-operation on the part of everyone in which is increased to two weeks after five by the installation of safety devices, and the organization. years of continuous ser vice. Those em by systematic safety instruction and su • • • ployed on a " no lost or overtime" basis are pervision. Constant study is carried on to The foregoing statement of principles allowed two weeks' vacation after one discover possible sources of accidents and will remain in effect unless changes are year of continuous ser vice. to plan means of avoiding them. As a re considered necessary because of general sult of this intensive work and the co-op economic conditions or because of condi 5. Wage Dividend tions pertaining particularly to the indus For many years, employees have re eration of Kodak people, both the n um ber and severity of accidents in the Com try. No such change will be made except ceived an annual lump-sum payment in after due consideration of the mutual ad addition to their wages, which is called pany's plan ts have been kept at a very low rate. vantages, benefits, and responsibilities of the wage dividend. The wage dividend is the Company and its employees. In some not taken into account by the Company 11. Working Conditions cases, application of these principles may in establishing wage rates. It is paid in The Company makes every reasonable be affected by government regulations.
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May 1945 Copyright 1945 by Eastman Koda k Company, Rochester. N . Y. l(odak's Production Goes to War Company's Output Wins 5 Army-Navy E Awards K odak 's war-production record is one of which the Company a nd em p loyees alike may justly feel proud-a r ecord which has won five Army -Navy .. E " awards to date and the plaudits of ranking officials of both branches -- of our m ilitary services. better and faster-which has aided With t he advent of war, K odak immeasurably in turning the tide went all-out in its production for of victory. In some departments the United States a nd United Na- film a nd kindred lines, especially lions, turning out hundreds of -it mea nt chiefly stepping up pro items, some of them old-line prod- duction a nd pyra miding upon that ucts, yet ma ny entirely foreign to increased production the special the Company's previous output. requirements of our fighting forces. Kodak converted practically 100 In other de partments it meant l'e per cent to the war effort at a ll tooling . and the development of its plants, and K odak products, new sktlls. T~e response of Kodak ra nging from photographic and op- people to thts program shattered tical items to height finders, pon- record after record on production. toons, bombsight parts! subma rine Many Methods Change cameras, and other devtces, are do War Goods_ Photography and optics are playing a vital role in the war. ing much to speed victory. Many revisions of previously and Kodak is in the forefront of production in these lines. accepted met hods were necessi Millions of feet of film have been turned out for aerial reconnaissance. Kodak Better P roducts Result tated. In the field of packaging cameras are recording the war's dramatic action and EK optics have given Allied Not only have many of these a lone, for instance, new methods guns deadly accuracy. At left. tubes for new high-precision telescopes are being pr oducts been turned out in greater were developed to meet the pro!:> turned out at Hawk-Eye. Most of the fi lm, paper and other photographic goods quantity each year as the tempo lems posed by shipments to steamy, used by the armed forces are produced at Kodak Park. At right is a typical aerial of the war increases, but K odak tropical jungles and the fri gid "shot" as bombs hurtle earthward. Films spot the targets and follow up to record workmanship, ingenuity a nd re cold of the Arctic regions. T hese damage. Inset is an aerial camera from Camera Works where many precision search have reduced costs to the issues, too, were met. instruments are produced for war in great quantities. including several types of lire-control equipment. armed forces a nd su!(gested refine Kodak servicemen and many ments promoting the efficiency a nd others using Kodak war prod effectiveness of the equipment. ucts have written proved-in-com Time and again Kodak people bat praise of a wide variety of 1944 Ideas Bring $46,423 in Awards have drawn commendation from items bea ring the Kodak label on Army a nd Navy officials. Typical the world's battlefronts. Guns arc 3845 Suggestion Approvals Set New Record is a letter received from Col. F. J . firing more accurately with K odak a mounts he m ay receive in a year. Atwood, chief of the Rochester optics, Kodak height finders are The submission of ideas is sim Ordna nce District, shortly before enabling ack-ack crews to knock Each year, K odak people r eceive thousands of dollars for ideas plified by suggestion blanks a nd the e nd of 1944: down more enemy planes. Antitank on a varie t y of subjects, chiefly d ealin g with r eduction of pro envelopes which are available in "It is with great satisfaction guns are mercilessly smashing duction costs, b ettermen t of product quality, or improved safety conveniently located suggestion that I congratulate you a nd all of enemy a rmored strength, thanks and fire-prevention methods and ------ boxes in departments throughout Kodak's Army of Production me n to Kodak telescopes and other fire appli a nces. Im ated value. In some instances an the plants. and women upon being awarded control instruments. In 1944 an all-time sugaestion origina l award is suppleme nted by Making of suggestions is a sim that much deserved F ourth Star Kodak Takes Lead record was ~e t at Kodak wh:n 3845 additional a mounts when it is ple procedure. Explanatory draw for your Army-Navy Production approved ideas, most of w hich found later that the suggestion ings, blue prints and photographs A ward Banners at Kodak Office. This is a photographic war, and were concerned with the Com- has prov~d more valuable tha n at may be tu rned in to ill ustrate ideas Camera Works. Kodak Park. and perhaps most important of all is pany's war production, brought first believed. Amounts o~ the a lt hough t his is not necessary. The Hawk-Eye Plant. your Company's position in W3r $46,423.50 to their contr ibutors. aw<:t rds range upward, acco 1· ~mg to employee need only write out his time photography for which thou . . . the1r worth. Awards as htgh as idea in simple terms. If further "Your organization's outstanding sands, yes m illions, of feet of Any mdtvtdual . at a ny of the $1000 have been given for war explanation is needed before grant contribution to the war effort is in Kodak fi lm have been used in ~od~k. plants, sto1 es,. or. bra n ~ hes production ideas. ing the award, he will be contacted. this way again recognized by your aeria l reconna issance, bringing IS e hgtble to turn hts 1deas mto . Army and Navy. Kodak has an en- back vital data without which at cash, with the exception of super- Some ef!lployees. hand tn sco ~·es . Kodak's sugges ti ~ n system .was via_ble war record. Its service deco.: tacks could not be planned and visory and technical employees o~ suggesttons durmg a Y.ear, :vtr~ maugurated back m 1898. Stnce I rahons have been truly earned. invasions could not be launched whose duties regula rly involve the n~ng many awards whtch mdt- that time 164 ,439 ideas have been Kodak's shift from peacetime to successfully. Millions of pictures submission of new ideas. vtd~a ll y m ~y n o~ be la.rge, yet . whtch comptle an tmpresstve total. subm itted. Both the number of sug- wartime products was accom- of the French coast were ta ken be Suggestions are approved at There is no limit to the number gestions and amounts received each 1 plished in a n amazingly short time. fore D-Day a nd photography and regula r intervals throughout the of sugaestions which may be sub year have shown ma rked increases The Company converted its vast Koda k products were credited with year, a nd the size of the individual mitted., by an e mployee, nor any in recent yea rs as employees have facilities and manpower to the task I ~oing a vital job well. In the P acif award is determined by its esti- limitation on accumu lative become more suggestion-conscious. of producina materiel of war- •c, too, pla nes swo?ped over long- " secret Jap-held tslands, photo- .------. g1·aphing installations for follow up bombers to blast. Others, with Kodacolor Aero Reversal F ilm, Kodak Men and Women Hit fJackpot' with Suggestions cha rted the islands for shoals and sandbars so that assaults could be successfully achieved. All Over World T his unusual production record was not achieved in R ochestc•· a lone, but a broad as well-at the Company's p la nts in England, Can ada, and Ausll·alia. And soon, un doubtedly, at Kodak's li be1·ated fac tories in France. In addition, Ten nessee Eastma n and other plants it ope1·ates in Te nnessee, such as Hol ston Ordnance Works where a new explosive is being produced in large quantities, all have done a marvelous job. Everywhere the name Kodak, so famous in peace, has become equal KennethMc Repeat _ For his suggestion Anne Does It- Anne Ridley. Clicks _ William Spross, of the ly famous in war. When the an M Gowan, left. KP Camera Works Shut· 'dea an- on Matte Transfer H-E Dept. 11. na ls of World War II a•·e chron Paper Mill. receives a $1000 check Paper, Victor Gioseffi, KO Sales talks over her idea for a suggestion ter Dept.. suggested a modification from C. K. Flint, general manager Dept. photographer, received $500. about the K-24 Aircraft Camera in the design of the Medalist shut icled, the cha pter on fi ne K odak of Kodak Park, for an idea which Later he received a $500 supple· lens cap with Henry Freitag, as ter to assure more dependable op products and determined K odak prevented the loss of gelatin. mental award for the idea. sistant foreman. She received $120. eration. He received $100 for it. people is sure to be a brilliant one. 2 KODAKERY May 1945 Over ll,770KodakMenandWomen I Nurses Visit Sick EK Folks Serving Uncle Sam; 193 Give Lives ..______..
A tota l of 11 770 men a nd w omen from Koda k's Rochester plants and subsidiaries in North Amer ica have a~ s w ere d their na tion's call to arm s, a nd already 193 of these have g iven their Jives. Severa l arc listed as m issing in action and ma ny scores have been w ounded . Kodak service people arc ser v ing with distinction all over the States have added 445 stars to the Air Fo1·ces knocking Nazi and J ap face of the globe, many winning Company's service fl ag and Cana planes from the air. Thousands the highest decorations their coun dian stores have contl'ibuted 26. have seen acti on on land with the try bestows for va lor and per form Kodak men and women hold a infantry, armored d ivisions and ar ance ''above and beyond the call wide variety of ranks in all tillery or participated in some of of duty." branches of the service. There are the great naval battles of the war. Kodak P <~ rk is the greatest con t wo brigadi e r ge ne ra ls f r om In every theater of operations, tributor of men and women to the Kodak's four Rochester divisions from the frigid Aleutians to the armed forces, of all Kodak. From Ted Curtis and Oscar Solbert, both steaming jungles of the South P a there 408 I men and women are in on overseas duty. There are many cific, Kodak men and women are uniform, and 71 have given their other Kodak men in the nati on's ably serving their country. Ji ves. From Camera Works, 1744 peo ple have gone into service and 26 have been killed. More Than $1,000,000 Paid 1229 from Hawk-Eye Hawk-Eye men and women in To J(odakers in Uniform the servi ce number 1229, with 16 giving their Ji ves. Over $1 ,000,000 has been paid b y the Company to Koda k serv Kodak Office people in service icemen and servicewomen in bonuses under the Military Service Nurse Visits_ Harri.et KramJ?f. of Came~a Works' Bldg. z. l~id up w1th a leg InJUry, rece1ves a call from Pauhne number 442, with two militar y Bonus Pla n. If continuous ly employed for a year or more b y the deaths and several missing. Nack, Kodak visiting nurse, who delivered Bertha's payment. This makes a total of 7496 Kodak Company prior to entering the .------ men and women from Rochester service, a man or woman who dons Many more thousands of d ollars Uncle Sam's uniiorm is paid a have been paid to K odak service serving their country. bonus of fo ur weeks' pay. Those men and women in lieu of vaca 52,000 Calls Made in Year Kodak d ivisions and subsidiaries whose employment by the Com tions to which they were entitled throughout the United States have pany prior to induction has been at the time of enter ing service. seen 3491 answer Uncle Sam's call, more than six months but less than The $1 ,000,000 is exclusive of By J(odak Visiting Nurses including 2354 from Tennessee a year are given two weeks' pay. wage dividends paid to employees Enstman. A totn l of 283 have en More than $1,000,000 has been re in the year following entry into Kodak's vis iting nurses ar e b usy people. In 1944, they made a tered servicC! from Canadian ceived in bonuses by Kodak men the service if they qualified at the total of 52,000 calls at homes of employees, performing m a ny and Kodak. and women in uniform since the in time they left. Kodak Sto1·es in the United w idely varied services for Company m en and women . auguration of Selective Service. Each Kodaker in uniform from The Com pany's visiting nurse ,------ the Company's plants, offices, ser vice was started in 1918 with r ies Metropolitan Group Life In stores and branches throughout one nurse. There are now eight surance, the visiting nurse who Pay-Roll Check Stubs Show the Western Hemisphere was sent nurses on the staff, under the d i has been calling on the employee a $50 War Bond last Christmas. rection of Mrs. Corrine W. Wa1- d ur ing his illness ex plains how dert. The nurses have their head total d isability benefits can be ob Tax, Authorized Deductions quarters at Kodak Offi ce. tained and assists in completing Visiting nurses call on all em the necessary form. Your pay-roll check stub lis ts the vario us d eductions fr om y our Employees Get ployees reported ill, on the third If an employee r etires while ill, pay as authorized by y ou or as r equired b y g overnmental regu day of their absence. The purpose after having r eached normal re la ti ons. F irs t on you r check s tub is g iven your gross wage. Fol of their call is to be of w hatever tirement age and having the length lowing this amount, the Federal,------ Insurance Plan help possible and to find out for of service required under the Com Old Age Bene(J t Tax is shown. fact that he has received full credit the department head the probable pany's Retirement Annuity Plan, on the books of the Government. period of absence. In planning the details are explained and taken This amount is fi xed by the Gov-In the case of Social Security, At Low Cost departmental work, it is necessary ca1·e of b y the nurse. to have this information. If the ernment at present at I per cent of cards are available in the plant em Aid in Home Problems your pay and has been deducted ploymen t offices for use in writ Life ·insurance, costing the indi employee is seriously ill and needs since 1937 by employers of the ing to the Baltimore office. In the vidual but six cents a month for nursing care, his gr oup life insur In all cases of illness, the visit nnti on under the Social Security case of the U.S. Wi thholding Tax, each $100 carried, is available to ance policy entitles him to Metro ing nurse endeavors to help in the Act. The amount deducted is paid the Company at the end of each Kodak people after they have com politan Life Insurance Company solution of any home or family by the Company to the Govern- year gives each employee a with- pleted six months of service. The bedside nursing service if he lives problems arising therefrom. She men t a long with a matching 1 ld ' · 1 · h 1 remainder of the net cost of the in within the area served by the in can furnish information r egarding amount. A record of each indi- 10 mg receipt w 11C not on Y surance is pa id by the Compan y. serves as a check on U.S. tax de surance company. When needed, hospitali zation, sanitarium care, vidual's cam ings and payments is ductions for the year but may also Employees may subscr ibe to an the visiting nurse can make ar clinics, social agencies, specialists, kept at the Social Security Offices be used to fi le income tax returns. amount approximating llh times rangements for the Metropolitan convalescent homes, under takers, in Baltimore. These Social Secur- Employees should bear in mind that of their year's normal wages. nurse to call. K odak nurses do not and approximate fees for each. She ity paymen ts are entirely apar t that the tax deduction is not ex Changes in amounts of life insur give such bedside car e. aids in securing sick room supplies from the Company's r etir ement an- actly the amount of tax but is ance and in employees' monthly Make Periodic Visits and equipment, and deli vers nuities for which Kodak bears the merely a means of collecting the contributions, due to changes in crutches and canes which are entire cost. tax and subsequent adjustments normal annual wages, are made Since Kodak's Sickness Allow loaned through the Company Med T he second deduction shown is may be necessary. annually on J an. 1. ance Plan, established in 1920, pro ical Departments. She can help your U.S. Withholdi ng Tax, de-For your con venience, in connec Insurance is paid to the bene vides payments without any con w ith the problems pertaining to ducted by the Company and paid tion with various savings plans of fi ciary named in the policy in the tribution by the employee, it is care of the family dur ing hospitali to the Government, the amount the Eastman Savings & Loan As zvent of death from any cause necessary to make period ic visits zation or need for fin ancial assist being fi xed by law depending on sociation, Wa1· Bond purchases, while the policyholder is insured in order to authorize cont inued ance because of illness. The nurse your salary and dependent exemp- group life insurance, etc., you may under the plan. The beneficiary payments. As in any such plan, also arranges for dental care for lions. authorize other ded uctions to be may be changed at any time upon proof of sickness is required before children of employees at the East Each person, if he desires, may made f1·om your check. These also request. such authorization can be made. man Dental Dispensary. The nurse then makes arrange check the correctness of the above are noted on your check stub which No Medical Examination In case of the death of an em two tux deductions and verify the you retain. ments for the employee to receive ployee, the visiting nurse takes No medical examination for in the allowance to which he is en care of obtaining the insurance surance coverage is required if an titled while ill. ' and any othe1· benefits due to the employee applies for the insurance A person out because of illness family of the deceased. I Many Kodak People Belong to RHSC I within 31 days after becoming is urged to notify the Employment In any case of sickness of an em eligible. Department of the plant at which ployee, emergency or otherwise, Appr oximately 22,000 m en and w om en of K odak's four Roch Cost of continued life insurance he is employed, giving his correct the nurse, with her knowledge of ester divis ions a nd some 26,000 d ependen ts wer e m ember s of is paid by the Company after the address, so that the n urse will be and experience with those prob able to locate the employee and the Rocheste1· H ospital Service Corpo ra tion as of 1944, most of policyholder retires. This amount lems which may result from illness is reduced each month as annuity thus authorize payments promptly. 01· accident, is prepared to advise whom subscl'i bed to the hospital .------ is paid until it r eaches a minimum In cases of permanent and total and assist the employee and his lnsunmce ro1· both themselves and laboratory and pathological exam the il· families. inations, physiotherapy, drugs and of $500 which is kept in force for d isabili ty where the individual car- family. Between the lnuuguration of this d ressings, use of oper<.~ lin g room, life. type of hospita l se1·vice in Roch- blood chemistry tests, serums, an The policy may be converted to ester in August \935, and up to esthesia, am bulance service, oxy any of the usual types of insurance Company's Vacation Plan Sept. I, 1944 , Kodal< folk realized gen, basal metabolism tests, e lec except term, at the rate applicable $ 1,174,04 0 in hospita l benefits for trocardiograms and delivery room to the atta ined age and class of the 21,622 pn ti ents admitted for and ordinary 1111 rsery care. risk without medica l examination Provides for Relaxation treatment. or these, 7221 were em- More complete details about the within 31 days in the event the em ployecs o f the Eastman Kodak benefits of RHSC membership may ployee leaves the service of the Since everybody benefits fr om a period of complete rela xat ion, Company, the rema ining 14,401 be obtained from Kodak employ Company. Kodak has p rovided for s uch a per iod throug h its general vaca being members of their families. ment or personnel departments . The policy also includes total tion pla n . P ersons w orking on an hou r ly basis get a week 's vaca In 19'14 ulone Kodak members and permanent disability benefits tion after a year's service and two I of the RHSC received $238,939 in Park Has Scouts for employees before the age of weeks after five years. Employees uled yaca t 10~ does not reduce the hospitnl cr ed it. A total of 4409 60 and before 15 years of service, assigned to the no-lost-or-overtime vacatiOn per1od. . clnims wus n ted unci Kodak folks Kodak Park's Troop SO. Boy the amount of life insurance car pay roll get a two-week vacation .E.mployees. who r et1:e, enter und members of their families were Scouts, open to sons of Park em ried by the insured being paid in annually a fter the first year. mll1 ~ary serv1 ce or are la1d ~tf n:ay hospitn Ii zcd 3 I ,228 clnys. ployees and others. has a mem 54 equal monthly installments. At least six months must elapse r~ce~v~ pa ym ~nt o.f wages m li.eu A community-spon s o r e d non bership of 74. of which a dozen Life insurance, however, is not re between yearly vacations, and va- l? t e 1~· v a,c a h ~n s 1f they ~ re ehg profi t hospital ser vice plan, with 11 or more are in the armed forces. d uced by d isability payments for cations cannot be accumulated 1ble f01 a.' acah on at .the t1me they member hospitals serving Monroe, Lester "Buck" Brown of Bldg. 34 those with over 15 years of service from one year to another. l l eav~ . Th1s also app~1 es t? won:en Ontar io, Livingston and Wayne is scoutmaster. His assistant is Al prior to reaching normal retire leavmg to be marned, mcludmg counties, the RHSC pr ovides mem bert Leusch, Bldg. 18. Head of ment age. Proudly They Wave! e~2uVJ What Decided You to Take a Job with the Eastman Kodak Company? T . M . Reg. U S . Pat. Off. Lester Foley, Kodak Office Shipping Dept.: Published weekly at Roches ler. N.Y.. wllh offices "First, several of my pals at West High al 343 S tat.c Street and printed a t K od ak Park EDITOR Phone took after-school jobs at Kodak, and liked FRANK R . KNlGHT JR. - 4100 it fine. My best friend, MANAGING EDITOR Bill Licata, followed ROBERT LAWRENCE - suit. Two days later ASSOCIATE EDITORS I filled out an appli PB1LIP H. REED - ART WOOD cation blank and we DIVISION EDITORS started to work to LEON D. WHJTE. Kodak Park - - - gether on Dec. 27, WILLIAM 0 . HA CKMA~J Camera Work s - ROS E MARTE PESCHAN, Hawk-Eye - - 1943, just a few days KAYE M. LECHLETTNER, Kodak Office - after my 16th birth KODAK OUT-OF-ROCHESTER day. My twin brother HORACE S. THOMAS, Koda k Office - got the bug after he STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERS TEP WRIGHT - 3107 PETE CULROSS - 3 107 heard m e t a lking KODAKERY Corre1pondonll are loc:aied 1n about the Company ovory 1hop, department, branch and 1tore and the importance of getting mat e rial packed and off to the The Kodak Spirit armed forces, so last People, buildings a nd machinery. March he moved into a place just a short Do these make up the formula ways down the bench· from me. Now we work daily from three to six, and six hours Kodak's success? every Saturday. The only thing that will No. It has taken more than these to break that schedule is when I'm able to make Kodak great. The remammg get in the Air Forces. They'll call me factor in the formula almost d efies defi l hope-after I've finished high school." nition. It's something you can' t put your Helen Eike. Camera Works Dept. 91: fi nger on, but it's there. It's not on the "It's partly a family matter and partly Company's books, yet it's one of Kodak's the importance of making war materials. Either would be ex- most valued assets. We at Kodak like to cuse enough for my refer to it as the "Kodak Spirit" . .. that taking a job in the certain something that makes Kodak a plant. George, my hus better place to work, that extra some band, and his brother, Dick, both worked at thing that m akes for progress and turns Camera Works before out increasingly better products. they joined the Air This Kodak Spirit is a heritage. Forces. Their father, created by Mr. Eastman himself by Derwood Eike, is a process engineer at his deeds and his policies. It has been the plant. I naturally carried on at Kodak down through the wanted to do all I years. New people soon acquire it to could to help those Kodak President Writes to Servicemen two bomber pilots ... assure its perpetuation. now more than ever, In speakin g last fall before the as since both are miss semblage of 25-year folks, Albert K . December 22, 1944 der the usual rules, result from their ab ing on missions over Europe. Their father "We think often of you K odak people Chapm an, Company vice-presid ent and sence for military service. Therefore, in and I feel that they'd want us to cany on who have left your work here to enter calculating your wage dividend and retire at our Camera Works war jobs-and we geneJ·alllla nager, gave an excelle:ot defi the service of uu•· country. We wan t you ment ann uit:r· payments, the Company w ill will." nition of the Kodak Spirit. He called it to know that we are deeply conscious of assume (upon your re-employment and re " that intangible something that trans your achievemen ts and your sacrifices. instatement, as provided below) that dur Theodore Knickerbocker. Kodak P ark Can Every Kodak man and woman back home ing your absence you will have continued Manufacturing: forms mediocrity into quality." is very proud of you. to receive your regular rate of pay. In "That's easy. I'd heard a lot about Kodak " Without it we are just another in "Busy as you are with your job, I am other words, an actual amount will be when I used to li ve in Pittsford as a boy. dustrial organization," he declared. sure that you like to hear about our work entered in the record which will be used When we moved to " With it we a re Kodak. and our future plans. Through the columns for calculating your wage dividend and re Montana I worked on of KODAKERY, we have tried to keep you ti rement annuity payments. Consequently, a ranch until I was "The Kodak Spirit is one of the fully informed about our war work, which upon re-employment and reinstatement, inducted- and when Company's vital assets, relatively more has been recognized five times with Army your checks for any wage dividend pay I joine d the para important in the long run tha.n bricks Navy production awards. I scarcely need ments which are declared after your re troopers and met a and mortar or production equipment. tell you how pleased we have been to r e turn will be about the same as if you had lot of the boys in the Army, I began to hear We can build new buildings to replace ceive these Government approvals of remained with the Company. This applies Kodak's performance on the home front. equally to those of you who have received a lot m ore a bout the old. Nothing takes the place of the Although our part in this world conflict, wage dividends in the past and those who Kodak. Some of it Kodak Spirit. of course, cannot be measured in terms of have not. In the same way, your annuity from Kodak men, and " With it- a nd it includes among its yours, I still feel that you would be proud payments after retirement under the Com some of it· from other fighting men using ingredients courage, knowled ge, faith, of the contribution your former associates pany plan will be about the same as they have made and are making to help you would have been if you had remained con Kodak products. After foresight and hard work-with it we toward your victory goal. Today, our war tinuously with the Company during the I was w ounded and have built our great Company. With it p1·oduction is greater than it ever has been. period when you were in military service. discharged I came to we are doing the impossible in our war "After your discharge, we hope you will visit relatives here Plans for Return Set and decided to try to get a Kodak job. I e ffort. With it we can face the future make application for re-employment just "Despite our preoccupation wi th war as soon as you conveniently can. We realize, guess my luck still holds good. The Com with confidence." work, we are giving much thought to the of course, that some of you will be unavoid pany is just as fine to work for as I'd been time when our servicemen and women will ably delayed in doing so. All servicemen told, and my hunch is that this will hold be coming back. Even now, preparations and women who make application within true just as much after the war as it does for their return are under way. Every su three months after discharge and are re now." pervisor and department head is planning employed will be fully reinstated for a ll now for that event. Each is looking ahead, Anna DeHond. Hawk-Eye Dept. 50: Company benefit plans. In addition, special "It was the obvious move to make in surveying future prospects, and arranging consideration will be given to the re-em in every way he can for the placement of ployment and reinstatement of all those who days like these, although producing mate his men and women now in military service. rials of war is some- are delayed in returning to em ployment be thing new for me as ''Several important considerations are cause of service-connected disabilities. * entering into our plans for returning serv it is for many w omen 11,770 ice people. Busy Future Foreseen my age. In my case, " We realize, for instance, that some of " Even more important to you than these however, I felt I knew EMPLOYEES IN SERVICE Company plans, I feel sure, is the ques where help was most you will receive your discharges later than urgently needed, and (Including all Kodak Subaldlarlea others. By careful planning, we shall do tion of job opportunities. Will business con also that I would en In North America) everything possible to give the same consid ditions make possible a high level of em eration and opportunity to each of you re ployment after the war? Will there be jobs joy my work and my for every Kodak serviceman and woman companions. You see, ************** gardless of whether you return early or late. I have two sons, Gor " We also want to take account of the who reapplies for work? I could not fairly ************** varied tra ining and experience you have make an out-and-out prediction, because I don and Allan De ************** do not know, and doubt if anyone knows, Hond, both of Hawk had while away. We realize, too, that some Eye's Production Of ************** or you will suffer injury. We have pledged the answers to these questions. But I ************** ourselves to help those who may be in can tell you we are looking forward to fice, who had told me ************** jured to qualify for a job and resume a the postwar period with optimism . Mr. much about the plant ************** norma l productive lile. Chapman, our general manager, summed up and its importance to ************** our feeUngs very well in a talk to the our armed forces. It is a fine thing for the ************** Dividend Payments Continue supervisory people earlier this year. He grandmother of 11 children to feel that she, "I believe that those of you who have said: 'Company-wide, we have in front of as well as people years younger, can do her ************** received wage dividends in the past will us a tremendous development program part to help win this war." ************** be pa1·ticularly interested to know that which should be translated in the postwar ************** certain adjustments have been made in the period into many new and improved prod postwar period, but it does touch upon cer ************** wage dividend and retirement annuity ucts and, by the same token, into a rela ta in of them which I think will be of *********** plans for the benefit or our returning serv tively high volume of sales. We of Kodak special interest to you. In closing, may I 193 icemen and women. As you know, payments are fortunate in being in an industry with extend to each one of you my best w ishes under these plans are based on the individ and express the fervent hope of all Kodak HAVE GIVEN THEIR LIVES such horizons.' ual's earnings with the Company. We feel "It is, of course, difficult in a letter to people that you will return safely home." that our service people should not sustain tell you of all our future plans. What has Sincerely yours, the reduction in the amount of future pay been said here is only a fragmentary sketch T. J . HARGRAVE, President, men ts after their return which would, un- of the preparations we are making for the Eastman Kodak Company. May 1945 KODAKERY s Training_ ~bove is one of many optical train- T 't • R f d Hundreds of Kodak people mg courses held each year at Hawk Ul 10n e un - each year take advantage of Eye. The instructor is Rhea Van Brocklin. and the the Company's Tuition Refund Plan. receiving re girls are being taught the operations in turning out funds up to SO per cent of the cost of approved optical instruments and about the tools used. Such courses. with a maximum of SSO. upon satisfactory training courses throughout the Company have completion. Above. Willis Teall, Cine Processing K d k 1 h · th d f · t proved most valuable ia that they give the employee Dept.. and Doris Bond. Emulsion Coating, receive 0 a peop e ave glven ousan s 0 pm s expert basic instruction before he takes over his J'ob. Blood Donors- of blood to the Red Cross for plasma to save their tuition refund checks at the Park from Eleanor the lives of our fighting men. The mobile unit makes periodic visits to Safety is also taught in simila! classes. Hammell, Industrial Relations. the plants. which. time and again, have shattered Rochester industrial .---~..,..,.--,_ plant blood-donor records. Among Kodak's leading donors are Frank Noce. leU. Cine Slitting Dept.. Kodak Park, with 20 pints and Mrs. Homer Kenyon. Kodacolor Dept.. with 19 donations, who were singled out for their high patriotism to launch a tanker at a local shipbuilding yard. Mrs. Kenyon's husband, of the Park's Silver Nitrate Dept.• is a 19-time donor and he and his wife are the Rochester couple with the most donations. S F f Kodak girls have done a swell job as USO hostesses. ong es - serving meals and entertaining at the Servicemen's Center. helping out at the Red Cross and in hospitals, putting many off-time hours into war work. Above are some Kodak girls joining in · Fighting Hogans_ The Hogans are a typical Kodak family. going all-out for the war effort in community singing with servicemen at the USO. war plants and in uniform. At leU is Mom, Mrs. Tom Hogan sr.. who keeps things humming at home, proudly holding the pictures of her two soldier sons, Corporal Bud, leU, and Sergeant Francis. At right is Pa. of Bldg. SO. Kodak Park. head of the family. Bottom row, from leU. are: Mike, Sensitized Paper Packing, KP; his wife, Gertrude. Roll Coating Dept., KP; Ruth of Camera Works, now in the WAC. wife of Francis; June. Color Print Service. KP. now in WAVES; another June, Bud's wife, in Kodacolor Paper Print Dept.. KP; and Tom jr.. a high school senior who worked part time in the Paper Mill, Bldg. SO, last summer. Honored _ Blindn~ss is no hand1cap for Francis Affleck. shown on the job at Kodak Park. turning out sight T r· With the advent of war in Europe. Kodak homes in mounts for Flying Fortress guns ea 1me- Rochester were opened to children of the people of under the watchful eye of his dog, Kodak Ltd., England. Many have since returned to their homeland. Ch T • Just before the Community Chest campaign for '44, 'Imp.' Francis was selected as one some to enter the armed forces, but others will remain until the clouds est "P- Kodak people went on a tour of Chest agencies to of the nation's 10 "Heroes of the of war are entirely gone. A tea was given for the " Kodakids" and their see at first hand the work being carried on. and came back enthu Home Front" for 1943 by the Na foster parents on the occasion of the visit of Donald McMaster, right. siastic Chest supporters. Above, John Vass, Hawk-Eye; Esther Horn tional Association of Manufactur Director of Kodak Ltd. and Manager of Harrow Works. He told the and Barney Pilot. Kodak Office. stop at Rochester Children's Nursery. ers and was honored at a lunch children of their native land and brought many personal messages • In characteristic Kodak fashion, the campaign went "over the top.'' eon in New York City. from their fathers and mothers. May 1945 6 KODAKERY Kodak, Busy at War Job," Long, Faithful Service Rewarded Lool{s to Peacetime Era With Pensions; $3,750,000 Paid Approx imately 1200 Kodak Through Confident Eyes -- men and women have shared over $3,750,000 in be nefits un The: postwar future: looms bright on Kodak's peace time horizon. der Kodak's Retirement Annuity Although still bus ily en gaged in the task of turning out vital Plan, cost of which is borne entire war iU:mR, m<.tny in ever-increasing quantities, the Compan y is ly by the Company, as a bonus for J!kcwlw: l.{lvlnu careful thought to --. . - the years in which their thought 1 l•tivltles Jn the yeors utter the war. duc t1 on has gone on dunng the and energies contributed to the ~ The prospecl.ll huve been well war at an even accelerated pace, progress of the organization. •·atlmot.r;d Jn :J ialk given by Albert he.. d e~ J ar e d . Under Koda k's retirement pro K. Chupml.ln, Kodak vice-president It JS to ~e expected, theref_ore, gram, monthly paym ents are con ond w:nerol ma nager . He expressed that n:any lmportan_t new thmgs tinued for life. c CJnlldcn•~c: thot "we are going to ore gomg to flow du·ectly out of Yearly retiremeni payments are em,..rgc from the war era wi th a our war work._In some cases they determined by salary received and wcrJtly strcM~ then ed organlwtion," ca ~ _ma ke ~h e 1r a ppeara .n c~ at a length of service, being based on r•ot only augmented in numbers, r~latJve ly e L~rly date. This Js par a percentage of total earnings but 0 8 he added the Company, l1cu larly true of the process plants, throughout the individual's period under the prcl!sure'or necessity, has such as Kodak Pa rk, where our of employment The rate applied "rJcqulrcd knowledge George Eastman .. • • Great Industrialist artd Philartthropist George Eastman would have been 90 years old on July 12, 1944. Eastman or ganization. str u gglin~ His most outstanding characteristic, next to honesty, was thor to free itself from depe n denr~· u p oughness. He was born in Waterville, Oneida County, N.Y., July on othe rs for b:lsic ma teriaL. Ni 1854. He died on Mar. 14, 1932. trate of silver wns ont' example- The Eastman fa mily moved from him in his factory. With one helper Kodak becoming the lnr~es t con Waterville to Rochester in 1860, he started the business in a rented sume r of s i l \'i~ r bullion in the world where the father died within a room on the third fl oor of a build excepting only the U.S. 1\Jlnt. year. Ge 01·ge Eastman, at the age ing which still sta nds at 73 State St. Raw photographic pnp ~ r wns an of 14, went to work in a real estate The plates they made were ex other problem. Just us t he German office as e rra nd boy for $3 a week. cellent; the ma rket was greater armies were invading Belgium in About a year later he transferred than his li ttle factory could supply. 19J.l, upon the eve of the cu tti n~ to an insurance firm, and, in 1874, He told his close friend, Col. H enry of\' of the Europenn paper su pp l ~· . secured a position as a bookkeeper A. Strong, of his prospects and his the Kodnk Pnrk paper m ill be in the Rochester Savings Bank. need for more capital, and when gan to de liver thi, essen tial to the It was a long in the late 70's Colonel Strong became a partne r paper-coating depar tment. With that the young bank clerk was in the business, he left his job at the end o i the wnr . Enstm:H\ lens plann ing a vacation trip and the the ba nk and the Eastman Dry ma kers produced Kodak Annstig suggestion was made to him that Plate Company appeared in 1881. mats, combining speed with sluwp he _ta ke some photographs of . h is To keep the factory producing ness nt prices far below those outrng. In those days negatrves teadily, the Company had con which previously prevniled. An were made on w hat a re known as tracted with a few big jobbers to other Eastma n drenm was t'e:tlizcd. wet pl~t !'!s w~tc h had to be fresh- take a certain supply of plates Gave Away Millions ly sensrttzed, 111 the dark of ~ourse , each month. During the winter, the a nd the expos ~re made whtle the jobbers' stocks accumulated. With But these nnd many other pro plates were sttll. wet: The photog- spring came the crash-the plates duc tion miracles we re n eve r rapher lugged wtth hrm n?t m erely in the jobbers' hands had so de e nough to keep this one m:m 's a bulky camet:a and tnpo_d_ ~nd teriorated that t hey were almost brain and henri busy. The ol'igi nn glass an.d chemr c a l ~ for senstttzmg, worthless. Though it was a stag. tion of wage dividends in 1!)1 2 a nd developmg and fixrng, but a lso the gering blow the youthful com other· pla ns in la ter years th rough dark _tent in wh!ch to per~orm ~he pany took th'ose plates back. which ma ny millions hnve been chemrcal operatrons a nd m whtch Then George Eastman's formula pnid to the members o( K odak ; the to load the plate holders. refused to work. He could no longer libemlity and foresight of the One of First Amateurs make good plates, work and ex- "mysterious 1\lfr. Smith" w ho did The young bank clerk paid a periment as he would. The factory so much for the development a nd photographer $5 to initiate him was shut down, but George East usefulness oC the 1\l nssachllsetls In into the m ysteries of photography, ma n was not idle. He went to Eng stitute of Technology; the Eastmnn a nd made pictures-good pictures land, where he bought the formula Thentre, Enslmnn School o( M u - on his holiday, t hen and there of the best English dry plate then sic, Kilboum Hall - nnmed in becoming one of the first amateur made and worked in the factor y honor oC his mother ; the Roches photographers. until he was sure he could make te r Philharmonic Or chestra; the Others had dabbled with the the same high type of plates a t George Eastman University oC R ocheste r a nd its hobby, of course. But young East- home. Upon his return the com fa med medical school; the East man never dabbled with anything. pany resumed operations. gelatin, on top of which the sensi a long with that slogan-" Kodak ," ma n Denta l Dispensnries in this One of the things he learned was Following the manufacture of tized emulsion was coated. After George Eastman's persona l and and othe r cities throughout the of a new process that was being the dry plate came the m aking of exposure and development, the universally known contribution to world- these are perha ps the m ost experimented w ith in England- bromide paper w hich survives to negative was soaked in wa ter and the world of trade-marks. important recipients of his wealth, the so-called dry plate process, this day as a standard product in t he negative image contained in T he n George Eastman tackled his thought, a nd his ene rgy. wherein the sensitive silver salts this line. Then the first germ of the emulsion w as tr ansferred to a the proble m of supplying film on When , in 1925, George Eastman were suspended in an emulsion of present-day photography was born gelatin "skin." When these two a thin, flexible, transpa rent base resigned as preside nt of the Enst gelatin and spread thinly on glass, in George Eastman's brain. Why gelatinous substances were dried, having a ll the advantages of glass man K odak Company and became dried and preserved for future use. not coat a negative emulsion on a they became as one - an easily without its weight and fragi li ty. It cha irman of the board, he found His m other's kitchen became the thin rollable paper base? A r oll usable and reliable negative. was produced in 1889-the fore himselC with more hours for the first Kodak Research Labora tory h older was designed as an a ttach During these years, the middle runner not only of the great busi ou tdoor activity he loved. Being dur ing George Eastman's hours ment to plate came1·as. Paper nega 1\0's. the Company was steadily ness i cartridge fdm today, but camp cook was for h im o sheer away from t he bank. When at last tives, however, had one serious ob prosperous, with its pla tes a nd a lso of film packs, p ortrait film, de li ght. He was a patie nt fi she r he was able to m ake good pic- jection. The grain of the paper paper and paper negatives. Roll X-ray film- and motion-picture ma n a nd a n expert shol. H e gol tures on his plates he decided to would show on the finished print, holders a nd cameras a nd their ac film. For while Eastma n, the pho fun out of it w he ther it was shoot enter upon the m anufacture of dry though this was greatly lessen ed cessories beca me a pa rt of the line. togra phic wizard , was perfecti ng ing pheasa nts in the Town of plates commercially, financing the by anointing the back of the nega A branch was opened in London. his film, Edison, the electrical wiz Greece, ot· li ons in Africn. venture with $5000 he had ma n- tive with glycerine. Kodak Idea Born ard, was experime nting with his There was one thing he could aged to save in his previous 12 T he next step was the stripping motion-picture came ra. not do throughout the fu ll a nd years of work. He continued his film. It consisted of coating the Then ca me the big idea. Why not It was a period of what a t the fruitfu l years o f his life. H e could job in the bank, but night found paper first with an easily soluble ma ke a whole outfit, camera a nd time seemed gr·eat growth for the not id le. film-a compact unit with which anybody could take pictures? In 1888, only 10 year s !rom the time he had swea ted in a dark tent on his vacation, George Eastman's most famous product, the Kodak, was born. It was a small, ob long box ; it made a round picture 2lh inches in diamete r; it was sold ready loaded for I 00 exposures. The price, loaded, was $25. When the hundredt h e xposure was made, the a mateur sent his K oda k back to the factory, a long with his check for $10. The ca mera was re loaded , the negatives developed, prints made, and a ll were returned to the expecta nt Koda ke r in a neat pack age. He nce the words that became famous the world over-"You press the button; we do the rest." Another word became fa mous Early Days_ This is the .original building of . the Eastman Dry Birthplace _ George. Eastman was born in this little home in Plate and F1lm Company, located on Kodak Street Watervllle, N.Y., on July 12. 1854. Inset is a baby where Kodak Tower now stands. picture. taken at the age of three. " X" marks where Sf art - George Eastman began I Friends _ George Eastman and Thomas Edison were fast friends, his dry plate business on the third Office _ Here's a viow of the Company'a officea In 1898, located for many of their interests were parallel. floor at 73 Sta te St. in 1880. whore the State Street Dlaplay Room Ia now 11tuatod. i 8 KODAKERY May 1945 J(odak Medical Departments J(eep Eye on Your Health Dr. Benjamin Slater, Kodak 's associa te med- X ray I F' t A 1'd _Dr. Gordon Hemmeu. head of the Hawk- , Eyes_ Dr. E. J . ~ ve ry . ophlh.almologist. ~:~ ses one of t he -- ical director and head of the Park Medical ITS Eye Medical Dept.. watches as Nurse Ruth Company s modern p1eces of equ1pment lo test Dept., discusses a chest X·ra y with a P ark man. Anlhonsen bandages a minor arm injury a l H-E Works. a per son's eyes at the Sla te Street Medical Dept. YOUR SAVINGS & LOAN Medical Service Given EJ( Folks on Job • • • • • • • • • Its Many Services Open to All Employees By Efficient Staff of Doctors and Nurses One doctor a nd two nurses served t he 6000 employees o f Koda k when the Company's Medical Kodnk people of long standing profitable means for Kodak people De pt. w as organ ized back in 1914. Today, a total of 22 doctors and 42 nurses, under the direction l B • 1 More than 600 Camera Works Happy Kids _ Here are just a few of 1ngo · - people attended this games the youngster• o f party held in the fifth floor cafeteria. one KORC people who attended tho annual of several such events staged during the Christmas P arty in the State Street audi winter. The eve ning of fun is generally torium. Mov.ios, candy and oranges, and topped off with a refreshments period. Old Sa nta with his gifts for a ll, kept the kids ta lking for weeks. Outdoor Fun_ One of the highlights Heave-Ho _ This "shot" was taken at of the KP AA program one of the HEAA annual each year is its outdoor program. staged picnics which always draw huge crowds on the Lake Avenue Field. SRO is the rule to e njoy various events. such as the tug becau se the KP AA spares no expense to of-war shown above, as well as heaps of get the cream of entertainers for the event. food to make the day long remembered. 10 KODAKERY May 1945 Over Thousand l(eglers Bowl Each Season in Leagues at Plants, Office When the m aples start clattering on city alleys every fall, more than 1000 Kodak people turn out for bowling, the most popular sport of all from the standpoint of participation. Each of Kodak's four local divisions has several leagues, and interest and enthu a 10-team circuit for the men and siasm mount during the winter sea an eight-teamer for the women. son as teams battle for top honors. There are some 60 men and 50 The plant recreation directors are women bowlers. in charge of getting the leagues Besides the regular league play, under way before turning over the generally followed by banquets affairs to league officers. at the close, at which prize money Kodak Pal'k, for the 1944-45 sea is distributed, most of the leagues son, has an estimated 500 bowlers stage special tournaments and rolling in six leagues. Of these 150 plant-wide bowling events. Safe 1 _ At left a tally crosses ------are women. Annually, too, r epresentative • the plate as Kodak girls 11~ Hawk-Eye has six leagues with bowlers from each of the plants s~ow t~eir skill at softball. At right d k R · p • k s ifl b ll some 275 bowlers, 100 of whom roll for the Lovejoy and Sulzer S1d Dllworth of the P ark trots 0 a ans lC 0 t a are women. trophies for the men and women across the plate after smacking out Camera Works put nine leagues respectively. a home run in a league contest at , A s • R • in the field this season with some Many of Rochester's best bowl the Lake Ave. field as Camera 540 bowlers participating. CW ers are Kodakers who sport some Works' Catcher Cropsey looks on. S ummertlme avorlte women bowlers riumber 60. of the best averages in any league These games always draw large Kodak Office has two leagues- in the city. crowds of enthusiastic supporters. Softball, without a doubt, is Kodak's Number 1 sport. The plants are represented by some of the best teams in the city, season in and season out, and the Kodak Park club is far-famed in the sport, having won the world .------ title in 1936 and again in 1940. city title last season, with Hawk Mention of softball around Eye and Camera Works likewise Kodak immediately brings up the fielding strong feminine tens. name of Mr. Softball himself in Departmental and plant leagues the person of the perennial m ound always draw a lot of interest and wizard, "Shifty" Gears. Gears is teams cavort after work or at noon one of softball's pitching greats of at all the plants. Interest is espe all time and still can show the cially high at the Park where the youngster s a few tricks in softball Lake A venue and Ridge Road subterfuge. No-hit, no-run games Noon-Hour Leagues create a lot of are "Shifty's" dish and he's always enthusiasm and draw large crowds. at his best when the chips are down. Competition is keen at Camera Gears, however, is just one of Works and Hawk-Eye where de the stars representing Kodak plants partmental leagues battled down to on the softball field. There are the final game last season for top others-many others. honors, cheered on by supporters The Park copped the Industrial from their departments. League title last season as well as winning its way to its ninth world championship tourney. Hawk-Eye and Camera Wbrks Kids Gofor always have classy teams in the field that can hold their own with KPAA 'sProgram the best of 'em. The league plays on the P ark's During the summer of 1944 T Each year interplant bowling matches are staged in addi- the Kodak Park Athletic Asso Gl ops - lion to plant league and tourney play. At left are the KO night-lighted Lake A venue field Ol > where the stands are usually filled ciation sponsored a softball pro ..0 keglers. winners of the Sulzer trophy in 1944-Virginia Blakeslee and .."' ~ ;i to capacity for almost every con gram for boys of Rochester in ...i .,., c Dorothy Kiske, seated, and standing. Sophie Bukowski. Thelma Turner• which over 1000 youths. 11 to ..: 0 - .. Celia Corkery and Kay Skelly. At right are the KO 1944 champs, test, such is the interest of both A. - ·e ! 15 years of age, enrolled. The ..... c:a: .. Al Wallack holding the Lovejoy trophy given him by Frank Lovejoy• Kodak and city fans in the game. A. Gl .1:• KPAA obtained the services of vi A. Kodak girls also excel at soft u"' 0" its sponsor, chairman of the Kodak board. Standing are Carl Mattern. "Spike" Garnish of the U. of R. .,.,... ot: ball, the P ark lassies winning the ::) Baldy Knapp, Chubby Collins and Harold Jensen • to direct the program. assisted by local high school coaches. The boys were divided into 10 Miscellaneous eight-team leagues. according to J(odak Plants Represented age, and a full schedule was played on the Lake A venue Sports Draw and Ridge Road diamonds at the By Classy Hardwood Teams Park, and DPI and John Mar B asketball is one of the favorite winter sports at Kodak w hich Although softball, bowling and shall fields. The regular season basketball hold the spotlight at was preceded by a softball is represented on the local hardwoods each year by speedy ag Kodak, miscellaneous sport activi school and some classy young gregations of both men and women. Kodak Park has two teams ties draw their share of partici softb!lll players were developed. a men's outfit in the Rochester In pants and spectators, too. . It is expected that a similar large following. dustrial League and another able P erhaps the most popular of plan will be inaugurated during club in the gir).s' league. Veteran The smaller proportion of Kodak these, gasoline and golf ball short the 1945 season. J ack Brightman, who has been con Office personnel and the drain of ages permitting, are the frequent nected with Park basketball for m ilitary demands upon its mem seasonal golf tournaments spon 30 years, is coach of the men's bership have eliminated basket sored by employee· associations team. Jim Curtin and Harold Lind ball at Kodak Office since the ad each summer. Tennis, also, never say directed the girls' quint. In vent of the war. f~ils to bring out a large number of 1945, the Park men and girls were "racqueteers," among them out league winners. standing local players such as P I'>Jl HawkeUes Best in '44 Michlin of Hawk-Eye, one-time city champ. During the past season, Hawk-Eye had the best girls' the Park team won the city war team in the league for 1944 with plant title. a record of eight wins and no de Badminton experienced a de feats. Gene Malinowski, former cided revival in 1944,drawing play coach, back from the Navy, has ers from the' Park, Hawk-Eye and again taken over the direction of Office to play on t he State Street the Hawkettes. The men's team auditorium courts. Michlin and boasted a somewhat less enviable Herb Fehrenbach of Hawk-Eye, record but the quint, directed by Cliff Schmidt of the P ark and Tom Player-Coach John Nolan, pressed Miller of Kodak Office are out the leaders hard throughout season standing Kodakers at this sport play. just to mention a few. Camera Works, under Coach Good old horseshoes can't be Frank Wood, had a good record for ignored and the sport provides 1945 and was in the league play plenty of off-hour participants on offs. The Camera girls finished the convenient clay courts at the third in league play in 1944, follow plants as do table tennis, shuffle ing the Hawkettes and Kaypee las board, and the several horseback sies, with six wins and two losses. riding, gym and swimming clubs The girls, however, were not in the organized by Kodak folk in co Fore 1 Golf is a popular sport league last season. operation with local organizations. • - at Kodak with numer Besides the league activities, the Information about these and sim ous plant meets sponsored by the P ark h as an interdepartmental Shoot 1 _ Here's a typical bit ilar activities m ay be obtained at recreation clubs each year. Above, basketball loop, playing in the • of action when Kodak plant athletic association or recre- Milt Richardson, H-E. gets off a . Bldg. 28 auditorium, which has a hardwood artists cavort. . ational club offices . nice drive.