Move to another College

I went from Olivet, to The Nazarene Bible College in Colorado Springs in 1981. This college was geared more towards married couple with Children, (since we had our first child in Dec 1980). There I took my first Job in the Plastics / EPS industry, at a company called Styro-Molders Corp. Here I worked for Walter Hieronymus, Ed Hieronymus and Bill Watkins. I started off on the third shift doing a brand new operation for the company. They had just started the process of making “foam-in-place moldings” This was a process where we made wooden molds that were hinged so they would create a closed cavity, that we would then line with a plastic, and spray a mixture into the box that when combined it would expand and fill the mold with polyurethane material. When the material cured we would open the mold and pull out a completed packaging item. Being on the ground floor of this operations taught me a lot and built my abilities for learning, training and patience. Over the course of the six years I spent at Styro-Molders I filled many different positions. There was the fabricating side, Saws, Slitters, Die cutting Gluing, Heat bonding, Contour cutters etc. Then I also worked with our Pattern and tool maker Bill Magill, making molds and specialty equipment for cutting foam and such. I ran the preexpanders and PELASPAN-PAC equipment. Eventually I was the production manager in the custom molded area of the plant we had a lot of older equipment such as Loeffler’s, Springfield’s and kohler General’s. We did install a lot of new equipment while I was there. 5 new heitz vacuum presses a new Dingledein block mold, and new boilers and accumulators to handle the new loads.