FOR THE MEN COMPANY • Vol. 2. No. 28 Copyl'lght l!l-14 by Eastmnn J< od11k Com pnn y. flochcstc r. N. Y . July 12, 1944 l(odak Fifth War Loan George Eastman l-Ie wou]d have been Sales Over $ 3~000~000 90 years o]d today Park Total Hits Crash Kills Percentage Of 108 Park Flyer Over $3,000.000 in Wa r Bonds 2nd Lt. Merle Euge ne Reed , 21, were pu rchased by Kodak e m- Sundries Development employee ployees during t he Fifth War a t Kod ak Pa rk, was killed in a Loan. Fina l fi gu res show tha t sales Ip la ne cr ash in India June 27, ac- omou nted to $3. J.l 1,740. cording to o mes- This is the lnrgest a mount ever sage from the Wor reached a t Kodak in a bond drive Deportment. a nd represen ted 108 per cent of I He was a mem- the goa l of $2,900,000. ber of the newly F::tced with the biggest quota formed F irst Air ever assigned the m, e mployees put Comma nd. t he c::tm p::ti gn well over the top to A brother, S1:,'1 . maintain the ir excellent recor·d es- ~ Carl Reed, now in ta blished in previous drives in En g 1 a n d, was a w hich they exceeded their goals. former P a rk Me ta l T he conc luding week of the Fifth S h 0 p em ployee, Wor Lon n at Kodak P ark pushed and a nother b roth- the fina l Com pany percentage from Lt. Read e r, Lt. D o n a 1 d 102 to 108 per cent. When the Pa rk Reed , now in Ita ly, went over the lop with I 08 per left t he P a r k's E&M Dept. for the cent, every Rochester division of ser vice. t he Compa ny had gone over its --- goal in the cam pa ign. J Park sales tota led $1,46 8, 11 6, Office Flyer Missing which was $ 108,116 over the quota . .. · of S 1 360 000. C<J mer·a works em- Reported m rssmg rn act ron on a Bel/ Ringers- These Kodak p l oye~s bought $829,1 25 in bonds, mission over Germa ny J une 20, me n r ang the I 00.5 per cent of the $825,000 goal. is Lt. Nicholas Kehoe jr ., 26 , p ilot bell a t Liberty Bridge last week, Hawk-Eye had 11 7 per cent, with of a B-24. He was a part-time e m­ on behalf of a ll K od ak people pur- bond sales h itting $600,373. The ployee of the Kodak Offi ce Ship­ chasing bonds during the Fifth quota was $5 15,000. Kodak Offi ce ping Dept. Wa r Loan. From left they are J . D. sales were $22 1,7 12 for a percent- F ewster. Koda k Office: J . H. Bush- age of Ill. T he quota was $200,000. In the J ~l y 4 KO DAKE.R Y •. a field. Kodak P ark: Sid Hines. Cam- The '$3,1 41,740 in bonds pur- prctur·e of Lreutena nt Ke hoe s w rfe era Works: J . H. P arker, Kodak chased by Kodak people cont rib- a nd son, Mike, was run on t he Park: R. G. Fisher. Kodak Office: uted in a great measure toward military page. Mrs. Kehoe, the (Extracted from a story written by the late Lewis B. J ones, Kodak Don McConville. Industrial Rela- Monroe County's ind ividua l sa les former Mary Con ley, worked on vice· president. and published in the Rochester Democrat & Chroni­ cle on March IS, 1932. the day following Mr. Eastman's death. All tions. apdDickHowland,Hawk-Eye. of $20,000,000. the 17th Floor at t he Office. facts and figures ar e reproduced as written by Mr. Jones in 1932.) O the wor ld a t la rge, the sto ry of t h e life of G eorge Eastma n is the s tory o f photogra phy as it is k nown today . T h e w orld , CW Marine Bags lap Peeking from Foxhole T too, knows some thing of his bene factions ; but t h e world knows of t h ose b e n efaction s only on the ir mone tary side. T he By S / Sgt. Murray Le wis any pa in, and afte r the corpsmen inte rest t h at h e took in h is p hila nthropies, the time a nd t hought Marine Corps Comba t Corr esp onde nt. fixed me up, I fe lt like going back a nd e n e rgy t h a t h e d e vo ted to t h e m , is know n on ly to R ochester and d oing a little more shooting, Som ewh e r e in t he P acific- (De layed)- Marine Pvt. Frank A. but they put me on a ship, instead." - perha ps to o n ly a s mall pa r t o f Rochester. Marando, 20, of Kittle berger P ark , W ebster, N. Y., saw a J a p Now in a naval hospita l, Ma­ pop his head out of a foxhole, look rando has almost recovered from Gave Himself With Money around, and pop back down again. forward to get a better view. h is injuries. He recen tly was pre­ The wor ld a t la rge understands t ha t George Eastm a n h ad g iven Mara ndo reasoned tha t any m an It was a little better, but n ot too sented with t he P urple Heart away som e thing like $70 .000,000. T h ose who have been in tim ately fool enough to try a trick like that good . Never theless. Mara ndo killed Medal by Marine Lt. Gen. Hol­ a ssociated wit h h im in connectio n w it h h is be ne factions know tha t once would do it again , so he care­ t wo J aps. He couldn't get a t the land W. Smith, comma nding gen ­ fully set his sights a nd waited. others without shifting his position. era l of the F ifth A mphibious h e had g iven- not mer e m on ey, but ha d g ive n of himself in a vast A few m inutes later , the same As he ra n for ward a second time, Cor·ps in the P acific. m easure to t h ose ins titutions in w hich h e h ad in ter ested h im se lf. J a p popped his head out of the a bu lle t hit him in the leg and he Modestly h e h as said t hat w h e n a r ich m a n e ndows a college h e foxhole again , on ly to have it crawled into a shell hole while does not g ive away mon ey; h e s imply d is tributes m on ey tha t h e he patched up the wound. cannot p e rson a lly use. But w h e n G eorge Eastman " distributed " Pvt. Fra nk A. Ma rando h ad " It fe lt like a burn at fLrst­ m on ey, h e gave alon g with t h at m oney h is t ime , h is tho ught, his ju st started as a ha nd lathe op­ then my leg sti ffened u p on me," erator in Dept. 21 at Camera Mara ndo recall ed. "I didn't have effort- that it mig ht be w isel y used. The b e n e fi cia r y received Work s when he an swered Uncle som ething m ore tha n money. W h a te ve r the instit u tion migh t b e, Sam's call and e nlisted in the it profited n ot on ly fro m Geor ge Eastman's mon ey but profited --·-..-- ·- ··-, ! ' Ma r ine Corps. l . from his t h oroug h going in ter est , his v is io n , a nd h is resource­ fu ln ess. T he m on ey was n ot tossed asid e as a gift. The brain, blown off by Mara ndo's a utoma tic rifle. that t h roug h u sefu lness made the m oney, was a liv e to the n eces­ T h is is the only incident of t he li- sity of m a k i n g the m o n ey useful to t h e be neficiary. In his p h ila n­ Ma rsha ll Isla nds fighting that the thropies as in h is bus iness, Mr. Eas tma n r ealized the respon sibili­ Webster ma r ine can recall with a ny .) ties of leadership a nd accepted t he m . degree of humor. T he rest was a ll • grim . He was la ter wounded. Mar ando was part of a n assa ult .~: .~ Honest, Thorough team wh ich soon found itself up in a--- / D G e orge Eas tma n 's most outstan d ing c h a r acte ristic- n ext to the front lines, batter ing against h on esty- w as t h oroug hness.