Industrial Health Foundation to Isaac H. Weaver on Raybestos-Manhattan's Membership (1977)

A one-page letter of April 13, 1977, from Mrs. S. J. Carlysle, director of office services of the Industrial Health Foundation in Pittsburgh, to Isaac H. Weaver, director of environmental control at R/M Friction Materials Company in Manheim, Pennsylvania. She reported that the Foundation's records showed Raybestos-Manhattan joined in 1937, dropped its corporate membership in 1957, and was a member again through its General Asbestos and Rubber Division from 1968 until mid-1975, when corporate membership was reinstated.

What it shows

The Industrial Health Foundation (earlier the Industrial Hygiene Foundation) was an industry-supported group that studied workplace health. The letter dates Raybestos-Manhattan's membership to 1937. It was written in the same month that R-M's John H. Marsh was writing about what the industry had known of asbestos hazards (Motley #325).

In Johns-Manville's index

Johns-Manville's legal department indexed the Motley 1,000 in 1984. Its index describes this document as follows:

S.J. Carlysle (Director of Office Services, IHF) letter to I. H. Weaver, 4/13/77, indicating that a review of the IHF records indicates that R-M joined IHF in 1937. The corporate membership was dropped in 1957 but the General Asbestos and Rubber Division belonged to the IHF from 1968 until mid 1975 when corporate membership was once again reinstated.

Related documents

• John H. Marsh to Guy Gabrielson on the History of Asbestos Exposure Limits (1977)

About this copy

This is document 324 of the Motley 1,000, from the set the Manville Personal Injury Settlement Trust's records facility certified as true copies, pages CRMC-Motley1000-Subj-001604 to CRMC-Motley1000-Subj-001604.