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News Flash from Ken-ichi Shimazu
Hello Polychrome friends! Following up last year's successful reunion, I would like to propose a repeat reunion this year again. I have polled those who could not attend last year due to personal emergency and overseas trip. I am happy to find out that Ron Muzillo, Barbara Lent and Ajay Shah are among those who would likely to show up. I spoke to Analise von Grunberg who will consider coming up once the date is set. Ron wrote to me that Paul Nemoda is also interested in joining us. So I went to the Briar Restaurant, last year's venue and found the last Saturday of September ( 28th) is open. I tentatively booked the room for the reunion. You may recall Briar is easy to access, have a private room for us, plenty of free parking and generally not too far from you. ( unless you are coming from Europe, Japan, Columbus, etc.!) I will keep you posted on further detail and who might show up. Please let me know whether you could join us. I would also be happy to hear from you as to what we could do at the meeting in addition to the individual's update (which is always interesting to know). So please keep the date open and hope to see you all then. Ken

Poly World Announcements - Just In Case You Missed Them

Many thanks to Al Wierling, who uncovered these recently and sent them in. There are some valuable bits of information for those who may have missed them the first time around. By the way, Al sent these in with a note that they may not be in order, and that he wasn't that good at imposition. Al has probably forgotten that I am even worse at stripping. I used to spend a lot of time watching the art of stripping and always marveled at how artful that skill can be. Oh, well...here goes:

Are You Ready For The 90's?Service Herald - 1989

Polychrome Service Herald - 1989

Click on to enlarge...and remember...clicking on it doesn't make it better...only bigger.

Are You Ready For The 80's? 1979 Sales Meeting

The 1979 Polychrome National Sales Meeting at the Innnisbruck Resort in Florida set the stage for Sales Power in the 80's.

The lunches were superb!

(Click on image to enlarge)

PolyWorld 1984

Many thanks to Brian Wittlin, who sent in this 1984 issue of Polyworld.

Brian has now earned a spot on the Gazpacho Soup line, but, due to the poor quality of the scan, he must go to the back of the line.

You may notice that the menu poll has closed, and today is April 1, 2009.

A recount now underway in our Chicago branch, will be made public after we make sure Gazpacho wins.

If you find any pictures or volumes from the past, send them here and become famous.

I will now attempt to place screen shots below of the PDF Brian was kind enough to send. Brian forgot that I read from right to left.

Apologies to Dominic for cutting off his mustache below...
You can click on the images to enlarge them.
That won't make them look better...just larger.

Harvey Hillock

Many thanks to Gina Brokaw, who sent in the pictures of
Harvey Hillock. As Gina wrote, “Everyone loved Harvey”,
and she could not be more right about that. Harvey was the
first TSR in the West to win the TSR of The Year Award
when I had the pleasure to present it to him. He will always
be remembered and loved by everyone.

That reminds me of a story Ray Bender told me about the
first sales person he ever encountered from Polychrome, when
Harvey called on him and said, “Why don’t you apply for the
Open Branch Manager’s job?”

Ray immediately applied for and got the job of Branch Manager
for Polychrome and never saw Harvey again. That is because
nobody ever saw Harvey in the office. Harvey was always making
sales calls. He just wanted to make sure he wouldn’t have to call on
Ray again.

Polychrome News has dug these pictures up, which Gina was kind
enough to provide, which shows Harvey at the office. He knew how
to work hard, as well as play hard. He also knew how to find those
free lunches, which is, after all, the purpose of this blog.

Thank you, Harvey. We will always love you!