Arizona Republic from Phoenix, Arizona • Page 124

EDITIONS Sunday, Aprfl 1961 ffift Aff26na ftqiflbfte f4 V. Executive Team Directs Progress Of Hallcraft MARVIN HALL Marvin D. Halt, senior vice president of Hallcraft Homes, and father of John Hall, has been an Arizona booster since he first made a visit here in 1847, As soon as possible, he put the Missouri winters behind him once and for all. Today, he, and his wife Mary, plus daughter Shirley Anne, reside at 2245 East Amelia Avenue In Phoenix. Sons John and Robert are also Phoenix residents.

Aside from his executive position with the Hallcraft corporation, which he and son John founded, Hall devotes time to his partnership in H. and M. Machine Company, specializing in the manufacture of missile parts. Hall's leisure hours are spent hunting and fishing. MaxJne L.

Carter (Mrs. George serves as assistant secretary of the Hallcraft Corporation. Mrs. Carter Is a graduate of Bryant and Stratton Business College in Chicago. She came to Arizona in 1950; joined Hallcraft in 1953.

Her hobbles Include water skiing, bowling and swimming. Primary interest is her home, at 4520 East Earll Drive in Phoenix, and MAX1NE L. CARTER her three children: George III, 16; Rebecca, and Sandra, 6. David F. Reade, Hallcraft vice president and director- of sales, is a former Illinois resident who made Arizona his home in 1948.

He holds a B.S. degree in marketing and advertising from Arizona State University ('52); was an Army First Lieutenant during the Korean conflict, earning a bronze star. Before joining Hallcraft In November, 1960, Reade was assistant to the president of another Phoe- ix building firm for five years. Once a member of the Phoenix Symphony Orchestra, Reade considers music and tennis his favorite pastimes. His wife, Velma, is also a.

former Symphony member, a flutist. They reside with their two children: James, 8, and 6-year-old Bonnie, at 5622 West Amelia in Phoenix. DAVID READE a 4-year stint in the Navy; layed his return until 1949. ARTHUR M.DAVIS his family moved to Arizona, where Weltmer graduated from Kacstnftr began his career InKingman High School. Hallcraft's sales and development office in 1952, and became a vice president one year later.

Leisure time is spent playing organ (popular tunes "from our His career in the home-building business began in 1951 when ie started as an apprentice car penter. In 1956, he joined Hallcraft as carpenter foreman, then became Customer's Service Manager in October, 1960. The Harvey Weltmer family includes wife, Patsy, and their five HENRY F. KAESTNER CLYDE H. RAYMOND children: Michael, 12, Cynthia, JO, Steven, 9, Teresa, 6, and Kimberly, 7 months.

Their home is at 3716 West Citrus Way. Allen C. Reed, vice president and director of advertising and merchandising for Hallcraft Homes, has been associated with the firm for the past nine years. A graduate of Colorado State College and Los Angeles Art Cen- HARVEY WELTMER ter, Reed moved his Los Angeles agency and art service to Phoenix in 1948 where it still operates as a separate enterprise as Allen C. Reed Advertising.

For many years, Reed's hobby has bqcn publicizing Arizona and the West. His written articles, photographs and illustrations have appeared in over seventy local national and worldwide publications during the past fifteen years. ALLEN C. REED He lives in Wrigley Terrace with his wife Shirley and 4 children. H.

B. Redfield is vice president in charge of construction for Hallcraft Homes. A 1933 graduate of Denver University, Redfield 'had wide experience in construction work as carpenter, plumber and electrician while residing in Denver. His successful career with Hall- H. B.

REDFIELD craft began in 1954, when he began as a construction foreman. In 1956, he became construction superintendent, and vice president in 1958. Fishing trips on the Gulf of California provide relaxation for "Chick" Redfield. He lives at 1007 E. Georgia with his wife, Helen.

Children are: Kenneth, 28, and 24, and step-daughter Patsy, 21. Mr. Redfield is the grandfather of five. at his home, 7501 E. Ber- Henry F.

Kaestncr, vice presi- rid Lane in Scottsdale. His fanr dent In charge of Planning and 111 v.uai£c ui riaiwunft anu wnc, Development, has been with Hall- daughter, Claudia, 14. craft since 1952. A Denver, Colorado, high school graduate, he first came to Arizona in 1940; left after 9 months for JOHN C. HALL Hall Story Written After 7,000 Homes A one-time journalism student has written one of the great stories of the American construction industry not in words, but in nearly 7,000 quality homes.

Head of the Hallcraft team, John C. Hall has enjoyed building things ever since he can remember, and he still does. One of his first memories is the blacksmith shop his father operated at Milan, Missouri, where John was born. The boy lent a hand whenever he could. When he was seven years old, the family moved to a farm the northern Missouri town of Eaglevilie.

There, his father spent three busy years on a two-job schedule, operating both a farm and a blacksmith shop. Later, the elder Hall went into construction work for the Prudential Life Insurance Company. It was his job year, they incorporated the firm known as Hallcraft Homes. That was more than 6,000 homes ago. What's the prime driving power behind such a successful enterprise? "I don't get in the field as much ns I used to," John Hall says, "but I still like to build things.

Always will." to remodel and barns and other repair houses, farm buildings. During his high school years, John spent two summers with his fath- ily includes his wife, Dorothy, Phoenix lawyer Arthur M. Davis function as secretary of Hallcraft Homes, and serves on the Board of Directors. Born in Wlnslow in 1907, Davis obtained his law degree from George Washington University; was admitted to the Arizona Bar in 1935. The Hallcraft corporation is Davis' special pride.

He helped organize the company in 1952, when, as he puts it, John Hall had little more than the ambition to build better homes for less money. Davis is member of the Valley of the Sun Kiwanis Club, He resides at 3425 North Valencia Lane in Scottsdale, with his wife, Jean, and children: Lynn, 13, and Bill, 9, students at Ingleside School. John, 20, is a junior at Santa University, in California. Clyde Raymond, treasurer of Hallcraft Homes, resides at 8707 East Cambridge in Phoenix, with his 'wife, Ann, and three small children: Don, Robert and Joann. A Navy veteran, Raymond saw action in the North Atlantic, Mediterranean and South Pacific during World War 11.

He received his Business Administration degree from Pace College, NYC, in 1949, and a Master's degree in accounting from Columbia University. Upon graduation in 1950, Raymond moved from New York to Arizona in 1950. He joined Hallcraft as an accountant in 1954, and became treasurer in 1958. A real believer in Hallcraft homes, Raymond has lived in five of them. He generally buys a new one each year.

Hallcraft Customer's Service Manager Harvey Weltmer, hails from Hiawatha, Kansas. In 1939, Hallcraft Builds Success On Modest Cost The real purpose of John Hall and his colleagues at Hallcraft is simply, to produce quality homes at modest cost, and they measure the success by the satisfaction of their customers. They don't often stop to think of what a big business their work produces. er, learning the business by But tne truth Hallcraft ing at it. When it came time for college, Hall wanted his son to study law, but John couldn't see himself in that profession.

He spent one year at the University studying in what of Missouri, regarded as the nation's finest school of journalism. Bui the demands of World War II disrupted his plans for a University education. The family moved to Arizona in 1943. John spent the next two years working for AiResearch, doing production assembly of aircraft components. When the War was over, John's earlier skills were in demand, and he went to work as a carpenter.

In four years of home construction, he became general construction foreman. Then he became a contrao tor, went into business for hinv self. That milestone was 1950. He spent one highly successful year on his own. Then and what natural? he called on his when Homes now constitutes one of the largest establishments in Central Arizona, contributing almost immeasurably to the general economic growth.

By building nearly 7,000 houses, the Hallcraft organization has become a large employer, an important purchaser of building materials, and a source of income for thousands of people. On the average, the Hallcraft payroll is about $30,000 a week; and cash from this source proves a stimulus to every kind of commercial activity in this area, At the same time, another $30,000 a week is paid to sub-contractors, who are responsible for hiring many more workmen and purchasing great quantities of building materials. Still another figure must be add' cd to this impressive total. The Hallcraft organization itself buys vast quantities of building mated als, over and above the materials purchased by its many sub-con tractors. As a result, materials two of them formed a partnership, and the organization began to take its present shape, in 1951.

-That's the significant occasion whose tenth anniversary Is being ing the unceasing demands. It would be impossible to trace every Hallcraft dollar through its course, but chances are that virtually every Valley resident re craft production and sales. Gross volume of the product is estimated at about 12 to 13 million dollars a year. All this is a byproduct of Hallcraft's real career, the building of quality homes at modest cost. But the career has been so successful that it makes the byproduct a vital part of the life of Central Arizona.

The growth of the Hallcraft firm has in many ways paralleled lhat of this whole area. John Hall became a builder shortly after World War II, when the nation's population began its historic move Westward, and thousands of people singled out the Valley of the Sun as their new home. But it was not merely the pres sure of an expanding population that accounted for Hallcraft's success. It was, instead, the determined maintenance of high building standards in the face of great pressure. Through the years Hallcraft has never compromised with quality, never made mere numbers the goal of building.

Each home is meant to satisfy one owner, and every aspect of the organization is bent in that direction. Houses are lived in one at a time. And this is why John Hall and the members of his team rarely pause to think of their firm as a big business, no matter how large the operation has grown. Their job remains what it has always been: building the kind of homes observed today. The following cdves some benefit from liall-'that Arizonans love to live in.

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