| Melvin J. Hodgkinson graduated with a B.S. Degree in Marketing from Brigham Young University in June of 1951. He had worked for the J. C. Penney Company in Vernal, Murray and in Provo. I love the newspaper article above. Sounds just like my dad - he has always been a "real eager beaver". | | After graduation he applied and was hired on at the Telephone Company in Salt Lake City. He worked for them for 35 years. Assignments included moves from Salt Lake to Ogden in 1956, back to Salt Lake in 1957, to Denver in 1965 and back to Salt Lake City in 1976. Job duties were spread over several departments: Commercial, Accounting, Data Systems, Corporate Personnel and the Utah Business Staff. Here is a quote from Mel's history "All my jobs have been associated, basically with the billing and collecting aspects of services provided to customers." He never talked about work to me, never went to his office - NEVER. (With being so intimately acquainted with Cornwall Associates, being there so much, even before the last six years, it seems strange to not to have gone to my dad's work.) I know he worked hard, I know he excelled, but his passion was his family and church work. When someone asked Barb where her dad worked she said "THE CHURCH!" |
Did I say how cool this concept is for family history. So awesome learning about everyone.
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