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DESIGNER CARR FEATURED
ON INSIDE PAGE SPREAD
W. Joseph Carr, Chief Staff Designer, is
shown here checking a showroom floor
layout prior to the selection of furniture
samples to be exhibited for the markets.
They have said of William Joseph
Carr that he is the only Irish-born
designer to come to this country with
a oad of green lumber and, if tnat's
true, maybe he got a head start in
the furniture business through this
association.
However, most of us know that it
takes more -and a lot more! -to
shape a successful career than just
being in the right place at the right
time. This helps ... but if you don't
have the stuff to go with it, no
chance associations will carry you
through very long.
Joe Carr started with the Heywood-
Wakefield Company on November
9, 1936 in the rattan department
after graduating from the
Worcester School of Design associated
with the famous art museum in
that city. His first jobs here were
washing rattan and putting plastic
tops on hampers, plus a little carriage
coloring and striping.
Joe's chance for advancement like
many other career opportunities
-resulted from the fact that he
offered his talent to activities outside
of his job. In the early days of Shop
News, during 1936, he used to contribute
Shop News cartoons. We
labeled these fine sketches "Carrtoons"
in these early editions. When
the word went out from our late
General Sales Manager Paul B. Posserin
1937 for "somebody who could
draw" to help our Staff Designer
Harry White, Joe was interviewed
and got the assignment.
Of all the brilliant decisions made
by Mr. PosseI', the selection of W.
Joseph Carr to help in the design
department, must be one of his
greatest. And for Joe, it put him in
his element where all his natural
ability was able to blossom out in
unlimited creativity. And it also
placed him in the main office where
his future wife (Dorothy Dinan)
was Secretary to the late George E.
ON INSIDE PAGE SPREAD
W. Joseph Carr, Chief Staff Designer, is
shown here checking a showroom floor
layout prior to the selection of furniture
samples to be exhibited for the markets.
They have said of William Joseph
Carr that he is the only Irish-born
designer to come to this country with
a oad of green lumber and, if tnat's
true, maybe he got a head start in
the furniture business through this
association.
However, most of us know that it
takes more -and a lot more! -to
shape a successful career than just
being in the right place at the right
time. This helps ... but if you don't
have the stuff to go with it, no
chance associations will carry you
through very long.
Joe Carr started with the Heywood-
Wakefield Company on November
9, 1936 in the rattan department
after graduating from the
Worcester School of Design associated
with the famous art museum in
that city. His first jobs here were
washing rattan and putting plastic
tops on hampers, plus a little carriage
coloring and striping.
Joe's chance for advancement like
many other career opportunities
-resulted from the fact that he
offered his talent to activities outside
of his job. In the early days of Shop
News, during 1936, he used to contribute
Shop News cartoons. We
labeled these fine sketches "Carrtoons"
in these early editions. When
the word went out from our late
General Sales Manager Paul B. Posserin
1937 for "somebody who could
draw" to help our Staff Designer
Harry White, Joe was interviewed
and got the assignment.
Of all the brilliant decisions made
by Mr. PosseI', the selection of W.
Joseph Carr to help in the design
department, must be one of his
greatest. And for Joe, it put him in
his element where all his natural
ability was able to blossom out in
unlimited creativity. And it also
placed him in the main office where
his future wife (Dorothy Dinan)
was Secretary to the late George E.
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