Report from the Road: Joe and Mike's Most Excellent Adventure
Joe Carroll, Arlington Industries, Scranton, Pa., and Mike Fruen, Fruen's Sales Co., Arlington's rep in Minneapolis, completed their road trip across America in two class cars without major incident. They capped off their trip with a visit to Fenway Park to see Joe's beloved Red Sox. Joe reported in from the road: “It took six days, 10 states,1,493 miles, rain and great weather, some excellent scenery and visits with a lot of great people. The cars performed without failure until the last 4 miles from downtown Boston on Commonwealth Ave., where my car experienced fuel vapor lock, which was corrected in 10 minutes.”
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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.