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0007-SWP-000005059 C.D. HOLLEY: PAINT PIONEER EABLER this year. oam otw* really great men of Sherwte-wOBams Ml his desk ior the last time. The fact that this desk stood in ths center of the Chicago laboratories. squally accsssibls to tns Chairman of ths Board and ths youngest research cub. is one cf the reasons for the man's greatness. For Clifford Dyer Holley wanted to be available to all without the restrictions of a private office. For one thing, it kept his mind open, and that open mind prevented him from becoming bound to any set theory--the first requisite of a successful research man. And no one will dispute that Dr. Holley was a highly successful researcher. . Many of Dr. Holley's innovations will live long after him. out the two most fa* mous are the test ience and the weather- ometer, both now accepted by the paint industry as standard lest equipment. But in the days before Clifford Holley was a national figure, paint was made by hit-or- miss methods and chemists played a smaller part than the rule-otabumn pro dee and methods of ccmtrolliag their uniiormlty. he, if any. can be called the leading spirit in modem house paint formulation. duction man. Author of two books on paints and var Because Dr. Holley was a leading ex ponent of continuous testing, his pioneer nishes and scores of technical articles on similar subjects. Dr. Holley was such an ing of the test fence and the Weatherometer was quite logical The first, a simple device far exposing painted samples to excellent teacher of men that the industry Is liberally sprinkled with scientists who will continue to carry the Holley torch. direct sun rays and vrsathsr was used Asked one time why he was so quiet and by him in conjunction with the Weather- retiring, he replied that as a tod in the ometer--an accelerated testing device Maine backwoods he was left alone so which combines ultra-violet light and salt much that he grew up to rely upon him spray and duplicates a year's exposure in self. He asked the world for nothing yet a day or two. The Holley technique, now gave his cooperation freely. universally adopted, was to try formulas ' His earlier laboratory training was re first far the Weatherometer to cull out poorer formulations, and then check hie findings on the more leisurely but almost fool-prcof tost fence. ceived at Acme White Lead and Color Works in Detroit and prior to that he was with the Lead Products Company and ths Gould Storags Battery Company. For a Despite Dr. Holley's bread Interest in lime he was professor of Industrial Chem the pcdnt field, same of his beet work was istry at North Dakota Agricultural Col done In developing modem exterior house lege and for many yean was professor paint*. Because hie made himself an au of Chemical Engineering at the Univer thority on lead and sine ptgm--te and sity of Mlchlqan. He was Sherwin-WIl- pioneered many new pigments and vehi- BamsResearch Director from 1935 to 1942. THIS KOKH'S CSTEK--Flograisingatthe Newark plant is not just a Fourth of July observance. It has hern a "y-n'-j ana evening ritual far many months and is supervised with careful observance of flag-etiquette by George E. Smith, who thus wins the honor of being the first S-W man on this new publication's cover. George Smith is. among othar aeeom- flishments. captain of the Newark Plant ire Brigade aid a World War veteran. Chemist xamines test-ioncr such as de veloped by Dr. Holley. It t-rporec tample* to 45* rcrysi i't usually placed on roofs. Dr. W. O- Michaels studies panels after exposure in Holley-desiqnsd Weather ometer. Uses ultra-violet rays, salt spray.