Monday, Mar. 12, 1956
Changes of the Week
P: William Bynum, 53, moved up from executive vice president to president of Carrier Corp., maker of air-conditioning and refrigerating equipment. He succeeds Cloud Wampler, 60, who becomes board chairman and continues as chief executive officer. Bynum, an engineer from Alabama Polytechnic, joined Carrier in 1930, drifted from engineering to sales, was made general sales manager in 1948, executive vice president three years later.
P: Alexander ("Sox") Calder Jr., 39, stepped into his father's shoes as president of Union Bag & Paper Corp., biggest U.S. maker of paper bags (1955 sales: a record $123 million). The elder Calder, 70, stays on as chairman of the board. After graduating from Dartmouth and Harvard Business School, young Calder started as a sales trainee in 1940, was made a director in 1948 and executive vice president in 1952. Like his father, he is a champion golfer.
P: General Anthony Clement McAuliffe, 57, retiring commander in chief of the U.S. Army in Europe, onetime (1949-51) commander of the Army Chemical Corps, famed for answering a Nazi surrender ultimatum at Bastogne with "Nuts," was recruited by American Cyanamid Co. as chief of its new Engineering & Construction Division and president of its engineering subsidiary, the Chemical Construction Corp.
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