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FILE NAME: Allied Signal Bendix (ASB) DATE: 1967 May 8 DOC#: ASB 109 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: Article in Bendix Today - Polich Sees Room at Top for Foundries Vol. I, No. 8, Page 8 May 8j 1967 P LA IN T IFF'S EXHIBIT Polich Sees Room at Top for Foundries Richard Polich, general man ager of Foundries division, Teterboro, N.J. has a goal, and that is to see his division become the top foundry in the country. This uncomplicated yet lofty ambition is typical of Polich, who at 34 is the youngest general manager in the cor poration. He figures if you're going to do something, you might as well not only do it right -- but best. And if you're going to bet, it might be best not to bet against him. Because Polich, who took the helm at Foundries last No vember, has a rather unbeat able quartet of q u a l i t i e s going for him; that is: knowl edge, enthusiasm, dedication and daring. And whatever Polich has, Foundries is getting. Long Road The road that brought Rich ard Polich to Foundries divi sion was far from a straight one. The young general manager attended Yale from 1951 to 1954, lettering in football, wrestling and lacrosse, get ting above average grades and obtaining a bachelor's degree in economics. Upon graduation, he went to work as a sales engineer for the Engineered Castings divi sion of Abex Corporation in Rochester, N.Y. From 1956-1959, Polich was a pilot in the U.S. Naval Re serves. Back to School Then, in 1961, he hit the books again, while also work ing full time at Massachu setts Institute of Technology as a research associate. He graduated in 1964 with a master's degree in metal lurgy, a single "B" having slightly marred an otherwise all-"A" academic record. Polich then joined Hitchiner Manufacturing Company of Milford, N.H. where he be came chief metallurgist. In April, 1966 the winding road to success brought him to Foundries division as di RICHARD POUCH . . . His Hopes Are High rector of metallurgy and quality control. His first reaction: "I'd been in foundries that were like caves, where you almost literally couldn't see any thing. This was relatively dean. I was impressed." Meanwhile, top management was obviously i m p r e s s e d with Polich's performance and capacity for hard work --enough to make him gen eral manager when Werner Lob left to take a similar position at Environmental S c i e n c e division, Towson Md. The first thing that im presses one when talking to Polich is that he is out of fashion, refusing to wear that blase facade considered by many to be a chic substitute for a sense of dignity and self esteem. Richard Polich gets excited. Not erratic, hand-waving extited, but intensely so -- about castings. He gets excited when tracing their history back to the early Greek sculptures, when painting a verbal picture of the high drama inherent in the pouring of white-hot polfcen steel, when describ ing the expansion his divi sion is making in the produc tion of aluminum castings, in its embarking on a new pro duct line of steel castings and in its possible entrance into the field of titanium castings. He gets excited when discuss ing the problem of abstract ing from empirical observa tion in the manufacture of castings, when explaining the difficult task of making cast ings "c o n s i s t e n t , " when stressing the skill and inge nuity necessary to produce some of the division's more complex castings, which con tain a maze of twisting passages. But Richard Polich becomes most excited, most unihibitedly enthused, when he looks to the future, and sees what it might hold for Foundries division. "We want to become the best foundry in the country," he says. To a c c o m p l i s h that feat, Polich says he's trying "to build a team, combining those people with craft and skill, and those with techni cal know-how. "In other words, 'mens et manis' -- the mind and the hand." ;- May 8, 1967 ~ Page 7