Title
Interview with Frank Jewitt
Streaming Media
Date of Interview
7-20-2001
Duration of Audio File
Audio File #1 1:04:50; Audio file 32 1:12:55
Interviewee
Frank Jewitt
Age
Born 1918, aged 83 at time of interview, died in 2011
Gender
Male
Birth Place
Danforth, Maine
Residence
Buxton, Maine
Occupation/ Work History
Research Chemist, Mill Manager
Role
Management
Mill or Principal Employer
S. D. Warren, St. Regis Paper
Mill Location
Westbrook, Maine 04092
Keywords
S.D. Warren Company, business history, research and development, management culture, paternalism
Abstract
Jewitt was a chemist in Warren's R&D laboratory from 1942 until the early 1950s. He provides a very detailed account of the technical work of improving the mill's high quality publication papers. Jewitt also lends a remarkable, rich depiction of three mill managers in the era, and the nepotism and politics of Warren's management.
Document Type
Interview
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0 License.
Recommended Citation
Frank Jewitt, interview by Michael Hillard, July 20, 2001, Stories of Maine's Paper Plantation, Digital Maine, Maine's Economic Improvement Fund, Digital Commons, University of Southern Maine
Comments
Important accounts of three mill managers: John Hyde, Everett Ingalls, and Rudy Greep. Differentiates between Hyde and other managers who understood the technical nature of paper production, and Greep and others who did not. Depiction of Hyde's successful paternalism in a mill of more than 2000 workers, and how Ingalls and Greep lacked Hyde's touch either in employee relations or production management. Left in early 1950s to become a mill manager of a St. Regis plant in Michigan.