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| 1994 |
 The New Year begins on a sad note for Henkels & McCoy when Mrs. Anne
Henkels, aged 96, breaks a leg in a fall at her home. She passes away on
January 7, 1994. Anne Henkels was a great helpmate to founder John B. (Jack)
Henkels, Jr. in the early days of Henkels & McCoy, and was instrumental in
administering the day to day business.
During her lifetime she witnessed the transformation of a small,
six-person operation into a truly international construction business
employing 5,000 men and women. Devout in the profession of their faith,
she and Jack brought civil rights to the workplace long before it was the
law -- or the fashion. The husband and wife were also among America's first
employers to provide medical and hospitalization insurance for employees, and
they instituted one of the nation's very first profit-sharing plans. Mrs.
Henkels had five children, as well as 57 grandchildren and 92
great-grandchildren. Eulogizing his mother, Paul M. Henkels says,
"While we shall miss her tremendously, we cannot feel sorry for her, for she
lived a long, enthusiastic, and productive life. And, as she remarked to so
many people, she was very curious to see what was on the other side. Now she
is there and, among other things, undoubtedly having a few long-awaited
waltzes with Jack."
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Among projects
for Henkels & McCoy in 1994 are the placing of 10 miles of 115kV
transmission line over rugged territory from Finksburg to Westminster,
Maryland for Baltimore Gas & Electric. A helicopter is used to deliver
and install 17 of the 95-feet high metal poles (right) in the most rugged terrain, where line trucks
simply cannot go. Using the chopper, H&M crews shaved weeks off the
schedule… South Central Bell awards H&M a contract for pole setting and
direct-buried cable work in the northern part of Mississippi and southwest
Tennessee… H&M's Industrial Division builds an environmentally-friendly
power house at the Bergen Generating Station in Ridgefield Park, N.J. The
company uses a new, hydraulic gantry to help install 140-ton turbines,
165-ton generators and two 142-ton transformers. Four new boilers at the
facility release 95% less pollution than the previous system. H&M's portion
of the project includes rigging, millwrighting, boilermaking, pipefitting
and other mechanical work, including installation of a 40-foot long control
center and the installing an overhead crane. Henkels & McCoy is also
responsible for the building of a 360 x 220-foot power building, including
installation of the HVAC system, plus electrical, masonry and concrete work…
H&M is enlisted by Seaview Thermal Systems to build a 13-acre waste
recycling system in Paterson, N.J. to clean 116,000 tons of approximately
250,000 tons of industrially polluted soil on the site of a former gas
making facility, demolished in 1978… Meanwhile, out west, the California
Division installs 37.5 miles of fiber optics west of Phoenix, Arizona over
varied terrain for Electric Lightwave, Inc. of Vancouver, Washington. The
project calls for aerial placement on existing electric transmission towers
as well as plowing, trenching, and large scale directional boring under two
rivers and two highways… In a freak ice storm strikes parts of Mississippi,
Louisiana, Arkansas and Texas, yanking lines from -- and then snapping--
utility poles. Once again, Henkels & McCoy dispatches crews to meet the
challenge, sending 200 men and equipment from as far away as Oklahoma and
Illinois to help restore power. Hardest hit is Mississippi. Crews remain on
the multiple site job for as long as 16 days, pulling double shifts… In a
reorganization move, H&M's old Delmarva Division is disassembled. Disparate
elements are reassigned to headquarters, National Accounts, Rising Sun. New
Jersey, Transmission & Distribution, and Delaware Valley divisions…
J. Daniel Piggot, a 16-year company veteran, is named as acting manager
of H&M's Engineering Division.
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