Word: recruit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...realty and restaurant investor; and Lawyer Mark T. Gates, 30. "None of us knew what we were getting into," recalls Pereira. "At first, it didn't look too difficult. If we'd known, we probably would not have started." Sensibly, their first move was to recruit two veteran aviation consultants: Thomas Wolfe, 65, a onetime vice president of both Western and Pan American, who is now Air California's chairman, and Hull, 66, onetime president of Lockheed Aircraft Service. With their guidance, the group steered its way safely through the labyrinth of state and federal approvals...
Coop officials have denied any racial discrimination by their employment office. They say the only reason for the low number of Negro employees is a relative lack of Negro job applicants. They have recently begun a campaign--including advertising in Roxbury newspapers--to recruit more Negro job-seekers...
Large companies are recruiting on high school campuses as they once did only at colleges. Southern Bell Telephone sends crews to high schools to demonstrate telephone jobs, mails to graduating seniors congratulatory cards (with job interview proposed), and takes out advertisements in yearbooks. Eastern Airlines, which is trying to increase its work force from 26,000 to 33,000 people, has hired retired stewardesses in 30 cities, sends them out to recruit younger girls. In Boston, John Hancock Life Insurance Co. advertises for secretarial help on rock-'n'-roll radio stations, brags that its main office is near...
...Kodak has been under fire for months from a militant civil rights organization headed by Florence and bearing the acrimonious acronym FIGHT (for Freedom, Integration, God, Honor-Today). Founded after the city's Negro riots in 1964, FIGHT soon insisted that it be allowed to recruit 600 Negroes for training and employment by Kodak. Amid mounting pressure, a Kodak assistant vice president designated to hold talks with FIGHT signed a document last Dec. 20, bowing to its demands. No sooner was that agreement reached, however, than Kodak repudiated it as "unauthorized." The company explained that it could not commit...
...would be unlikely to improve in school... boys from low income families where higher education seems hardly a realistic possibility," says Thomas Dublin '68, co-chairman of the program. Challenge now screens teacher recommendations more carefully by visiting the homes of prospective students. The program has also started to recruit students from sources outside the school system--like settlement houses and present Challenge students. Satisfied with the new techniques, Challenge's directors will try to utilize non school sources even more next year...