New plant manager named at Kimble

Name New Manager for Kimble

Plant Here; Bauer to Toledo

Effective Thursday, John Bauer, manager of the Muncie Kimble Glass Company plant, and Edward P. Spence, manager of the Kimble Plant at Sayreville, N.J., will assume new duties, according to an an­nouncement by S. A. Kenworthy, vice president of Kimble Glass. The Kimble Glass Company is a subsidiary of Owens-Illinois.

Mr. Bauer’s immediate assignment will be on the staff of the Special Industries Division of Kimble, Toledo, O., where he will assume responsibility for the sale of communications insulators.

Mr. Spence will become manager of the Muncie plant. Additional responsibilities in the Kimble Divi­sion will be assigned Mr. Bauer, according to the announcement.

Mr. Spence joined Kimble Glass Company at Vineland, N.J., in 1933 and advanced through the positions of clerk, time study man, indus­trial engineer and assistant plant service manager.

Having received his high school education at Millville, N.J., he at­tended the Wharton Evening School of the University of Penn­sylvania, graduating in 1940 with honors in industrial engineering and accounting. He later took an extension course at Rutgers Uni­versity in shop engineering.

His first position in the middle-west was as plant manager at the Kimble Plant in Warsaw, Ind., a position he took over in 1947.

His next asignment [sic] assignment was cost and budget supervisor at the Toledo Kimble Plant. He has been plant manager at Sayerville for a year.

Mr. Spence is married and is 39 years old.

Mr. Bauer joined the Muncie plant in 1923 as the plant’s first personnel director, later serving in shipping and then sales. He sold glass block for small installations in 32 states and Mexico from 1935 to 1938, when experimenting with glass block manufacture started.

Mr. Bauer was named manager of Columbus plant in 1947 and the Berlin, N.J., plant in 1948.