Interview with Oscar Fick
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Date of Interview
2-21-2003
Duration of Audio File
Audio File 1 -- 01:14:56; Audio File 2 -- 0:15:13
Interviewee
Oscar Fick
Age
1913
Gender
Male
Description
Fick was son of Oscar Fick Senior. Oscar Fick Senior was part of a small cadre of professional managers that wrested full control of the company from Warren family descendants in the late 1910s; this group included John Hyde and George Olmsted. Fick Junior and sons or sons in law of this group still ran the mill when it was sold to Scott Paper Company in 1967. The interviewee assisted his father and then became the chief electrical engineer for the mill. S.D. Warren owned a series of hydroelectric dams that provided energy to the mill, the first being built in 1878. Fick’s observations include his impressions of shop-floor life when he first worked summers there while attending engineering school. He recalls strong prejudice against Franco-American workers, and also describes the strong culture of workers bringing personal problems to their supervisors.
Birth Place
Portland, Maine
Residence
Westbrook, Maine
Occupation/Work History
Electrical Engineer and senior manager from 1930s until 1970s.
Role
Management
Mill or Principal Employer
S.D. Warren Company
Mill Location
Westbrook, Maine
Keywords
Paper mills - Maine, Sappi Paper - History, S.D.Warren - Maine
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.
Recommended Citation
Hillard, Michael G. PhD, "Interview with Oscar Fick" (2003). S.D. Warren Company. 36.
https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/sd-warren/36
