John F. McMahon to Sumner Simpson on the Industrial Hygiene Foundation's Twelfth Annual Meeting (1947)

A one-page letter of October 14, 1947, from John F. McMahon, managing director of the Industrial Hygiene Foundation of America, to Sumner Simpson, president of Raybestos-Manhattan, inviting the company to the Foundation's 12th annual meeting of members at Mellon Institute, Pittsburgh, on November 20, 1947, with technical conferences on November 19 and 21. Enclosed are two copies of the preliminary program, on the theme "A Better Place to Work," and a blank form for naming the company's representatives. Speakers included William B. Given, Jr., of American Brake Shoe Company, T. F. Hatch of the Foundation and Dr. A. J. Lanza, chairman of its Medical Committee.

In Johns-Manville's index

Johns-Manville's attorneys indexed the Sumner Simpson Papers. Their index describes this document as follows:

Transmittal letter for Preliminary Program for the Twelfth Annual Meeting to be held on November 20, 1947. The theme for the meeting is "A Better Place to Work." Program gives summaries of the various legal, medical and engineering conferences which will take place (program attached).

About this copy

This is document 05777-05780 of the Sumner Simpson Papers, as numbered in the collection's index.