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Last week at a breakfast in Manhattan, ten members of the Financial Women's Association, a group of successful managers, introduced themselves as qualified candidates for board membership to the heads of 30 major corporations, including General Motors, Pfizer, Kennecott Copper, Uniroyal and Mobil. Said one of the aspirants, Paula Hughes, 47, a vice president and director of Thomson McKinnon Securities: "Being on a board is the Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval. Women get on boards because they have already been on boards." Added another candidate, Ellen Berland Sachar, 37, a vice president and security analyst with Paine Webber...
None of the F.W.A. women, as Ellen Sachar put it, was "so naive as to think if she sat next to [Mobil Chairman] Rawleigh Warner at breakfast, he would invite her on the Mobil board at lunch." But what these women are telling corporate executives is that it is no longer valid to contend that there are not many qualified women for boards...
...Jersey were asking 71.9? per gal. for unleaded, and in New York City 88.9? per gal. for unleaded was posted on at least one pump. In Chicago a gallon of Amoco premium unleaded has been going for 96.9? per gal., up 5? in a month. Says a philosophical Mobil station manager in Manhattan: "Customers get upset, but they pay anyway. They grumble, but what can they...
Schmertz discussed Mobil's efforts to establish its "corporate personality" through informative advertisements and through the sponsoring of artistic and other "quality projects...
...accusations just don't apply to us." Schmertz said, adding "It's a disservice to the process of trying to recruit Jewish students into our corporation. It gives them the feeling that Mobil might not be a good place for them to work...