Buckles-Smith hires recent college grads

Buckles-Smith (San Jose, Calif.): The company recently hired two salespeople and one employee for its marketing department. Joey Newton and Grant Hendricks will be account managers and Rachael Esswein will be marketing coordinator. Newton ...
Aug. 20, 2012
Buckles-Smith (San Jose, Calif.): The company recently hired two salespeople and one employee for its marketing department. Joey Newton and Grant Hendricks will be account managers and Rachael Esswein will be marketing coordinator. Newton graduated from Gonzaga University and will cover Sacramento and Stockton. Hendricks graduated from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and will service accounts in the East Bay area, and Esswein, a San Diego State University graduate, will support the company's communication and branding efforts

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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.