Buckles-Smith's Woffington to retire after 40 years in the electrical market

Buckles-Smith (Livermore, Calif.): This November John Woffington, service center supervisor, will be retiring after working for 40 years in the electrical industry. Woffington began his career in the business as a counter salesperson at Standard Electric ...
Oct. 11, 2012
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[/caption]Buckles-Smith (Livermore, Calif.): This November John Woffington, service center supervisor, will be retiring after working for 40 years in the electrical industry. Woffington began his career in the business as a counter salesperson at Standard Electric Supply, Oakland, Calif., in 1973. He went to work at State Electric Supply in 1976, where he enjoyed a series of promotions from counter sales to inside sales, purchasing and eventually V.P. of operations and purchasing. When Buckles-Smith purchased State Electric Supply In 1995, the branch was moved to Richmond, Calif., and he transferred to the Livermore branch as account manager for the Lawrence Livermore National Labs. He was appointed manager of the Livermore Service Center in 2003. Over the past decade Woffington fostered and developed the relationship at LLNL and helped Buckles-Smith become a key supply partner for electrical power, automation and control equipment for LLNL. He and his wife Betsy are looking forward to continuing to enjoy the Golden State's wine country, yearly trips to Disneyland and other day trips throughout Northern California.

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Jim Lucy has been wandering through the electrical market for more than 30 years, most of the time as an editor for Electrical Wholesaling, Electrical Marketing newsletter and CEE News. During that time he and the editorial team for the publications have won numerous national awards for their coverage of the electrical business. He showed an early interest in electricity, when as a youth he had an idea for a hot dog cooker. Unfortunately, the first crude prototype malfunctioned and the arc nearly blew him out of his parents' basement. Before becoming an editor for Electrical Wholesaling magazine and Electrical Marketing, he earned a BA degree in journalism and a MA in communications from Glassboro State College, Glassboro, NJ., which is formerly best known as the site of the 1967 summit meeting between President Lyndon Johnson and Russian Premier Aleksei Nikolayevich Kosygin, and now best known as the New Jersey state college that changed its name in 1992 to Rowan University because of a generous $100 million donation by N.J. zillionaire industrialist Henry Rowan. Jim is a Brooklyn-born Jersey Guy happily transplanted in the fertile plains of Kansas for the past 20 years.