Elizabeth M. Manwell Cottage Dedication

Devin Hollands <devinhollands@gmail.com> Mon, Oct 21, 2019, 

to Camp, Elizabeth, <lauren.hunt@unirondack.org>

So Smith is real important as that was   Smitty  a woman who did a lot in the early years through the 60s with programming..  

   Dick Woodman was important director in wood days and he rallied the buys including Jon Guillaume to build that cabin after they got the $ from the woman's week, they ran to town and bought the wood and built it.

These are people that very few left standing have ever met.  But there was an important reason at the time for those names..  \

Crew building should be named for Marc Guilluame and Jon so I would hold that one for them.  Marc never believed in named recognition but I think we need to do it shortly..

    Before we do that we need to fix the red EYE OF THE LOON at the Peak of the shop roof.  It is supposed to glow red at night and was Marc's favorite part of the building.  Kellan Randall could fix it if he comes up to camp sometime.

  Chadwick was the dude in early days of getting camp off the ground and then he died early.

Frank Zigmund.. not sure what he did but he was an early guy.   these guys worked like 3 years plus...  not 10+ like you etc... so kinda funny.

    Sohia Fahs.. she was a Universalist educator and folks wanted a Woman to have a named building.. Manwell and Smith are both for woman...   

  Overlook I just learned was named by a camper  (that note was written on notes for 25th anniversary research)

     Sweet was named for $$ given in honor of a guy with no connection to camp.. ...we have paperwork on that deal.

   Lower Overlook on the right with sliding door could be good one...   this name changed from little girls room to Transylvania to Hollands  and part of it was the old Shop.

Pete made that real nice so it might be good spot for him?

    That might be best idea..  if you could do something to make it big enough of a deal to match him...   the Howlett Suite  sign out front by new arch entrance   East and West rooms with bath and deck.

 Randi Jennings and Randy McDonald laid in the plumbing and then built the wood structure.   Thus the name for the new bathroom was coined for their names.. Spell it as you wish.

Board member Ruth Stewart, Former Assistant Director Betsy Spaulding, Alan Anacheka-Nasemann  Sing during the dedication of the new Leining building around 2002.

One of the rooms is named for Reverand Ray Nasemann - who lead many family camps and resource weekends and helped the board work through issues of all types.

Stanley Charles Allyn, who retired at the end of 1961 as chairman of the board of the National Cash Register Com pany, died Saturday night in Greenwich (Conn.) Hospital at the age of 79. He lived in Day ton, Ohio, and also had a home in Greenwich.

Mr. Allyn was president of the concern from 1940 to 1957, when he became chairman of the board. He was credited with a key role in diversifying the company into accounting, book keeping, adding machines and the computer field.

He also led in expanding overseas operations from under $20‐million annual sales in 1940 to 20 times that in 1961.

Mr. Allyn, who was often described as “Mr. Energy Un limited,” was a model of the traveling capitalist who flew about the world, spreading American ideas and ideals. Un til his retirement, the ruddy, white‐haired businessman av eraged five trips abroad each year, traveling 100,000 miles.

Found Travel Essential

“You can't learn about world conditions sitting on the banks of the Miami River in Dayton,” he once said.

“We're not going to com pete with foreign producers just by yelling for tariffs,” he added. “It's going to take hard work. If we get fat and lazy, we'll wind up a second‐rate na tion.”

He believed in adapting his products to foreign tastes. N.C.R.'s bookkeeping machines for the Middle East, for in stance, made entries from right to left as the Arabs do. He believed also in hiring natives of each country to run his busi ness, and in extending to them many of the fringe benefits the American workers enjoy. To help teach United States cus toms and business practices, he invited thousands of foreign businessmen to the company's seminars at Dayton.

Not content with operating a world‐wide business, he took on a variety of public services that would have taxed the abil ity of several men.

Headed Charity Agencies

He served as president of the Community Chests and Coun cils of America in 1950. Later he was on an American advis ory committee for the econom ic rehabilitation of the Scottish Highlands and served as a trustee of the Institute of In ternational Education. In 1955 he was campaign chairman for the National Red Cross.

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In 1956 Mr. Allyn headed the United States delegation to the UNESCO Conference at New Delhi, where he declared: “The basic conflict in the world is not socialism versus capital ism. It is a conflict of free dom versus the lack of free dom.”

In the same year he was ad mitted to the French Legion of Honor “for promoting the ec onomic welfare of France.” In 1957 he was named to the Unit ed National Commission for UNESCO and represented the United States at the United Na tions Economic Committee for Europe in Geneva.

Wanted Ideas Pushed

In 1958, addressing the Na tional Foreign Trade Conven tion here, Mr. Allyn said:

“It is something of a para dox that while American pro ducts are universally popular, by no means the same thing can be said of American ideas. Per haps we should examine the methods we are using to sell freedom to the rest of the world. That is the most im portant sale we have to make.”

Mr. Allyn was trained by John H. Patterson, N.C.R.'s founder, an eccentric genius sometimes credited with being the father of modern salesman sh??p.

Mr. Allyn, who was born July 20, 1891, in Madison, Wis??, had just graduated from the University of Wisconsin when he went to Dayton to attend a wedding. He visited the plant of the National Cash Register Company and became so im pressed that he applied at once for a position.

He started clerking at $20 a week and his duties soon brought him into contact with Mr. Patterson. Mr. Allyn had been an unusually brisk walker. Peering out of his office, Mr. Patterson noticed this purpose ful stride and remarked to an associate:

“That young man has the most efficient walk I have ever seen. Let's keep our ‘eye on him.”

Mr. Allyn transferred to the sales department. He became Mr. Patterson's protégé and was sent on selling trips to New York and abroad. His rise was rapid. He became controller in 1917, a director in 1918, treasurer in 1926 and executive vice president and general manager in 1931.