The Modesto Bee du lieu suivant : Modesto, California • 60

F-4 Sun June 7 1 98 1 I he Modesto I tee She traded her nun's habit for pinstripes She was 40 years old She had no money No clothes No car No possessions and two people to support with no job After reading several newspaper want ads for real estate agents and reading a book on the subject Miss Knock decided that sounds like Her first job was on straight commission wondered if I could make the rent payments because if you sell you eat But I she said Her next move was to take the examination but two days before the test she was in a car accident I remember was waking up in a hospital I was in a bed in the hallway with no phone All I could think was I am a real estate person wit no I went she said She took the exam successfully and found out later she had had a concussion Miss Knock joined Equibank as an appraiser in 1973 Through her hands pass all property aprai-sals before mortgages are approved In the little spare time she has Miss Knock has taken flying lessons likes to fish and camp and follows the Pittsburgh Steelers also bowl with the Ascension Church league No 1 if you read from the bottom she oked By JOHN BRONSON The Associated Press PITTSBURGH Marty Knock who used to be a nun has traded in her bonnet and cape for pinstripes The former Sister of Charity now is manager of real estate appraisals for Equibank one of largest banks The road to the corporate tower took some surprising twists however Aside from her religious calling Miss Knock has also been a soda jerk farmhand construction engineer helper and real estate agent at some time in her life made autos for General Motors and light bulbs for she chuckled in a recent interview I was in high school I thought I would get a different job every year but I realized that there be a time to do all I would like she said Wearing a gray suit and white blouse with a ruffled collar Miss Knock casually lit a cigarette the come a long way brand as she fielded a questions always enjoyed working with my hands" she said explaining that she began the house and fixing the at her Trenton NJ home when her eyesight began to fail Miss Knock whose real first name is Florentine joined the Sisters of Charity as a junior at Seton Hill College in Greensburg NJ She took the name Sister Martin De Porres She taught mathematics and biology in western Pennsylvania until a callwent out for volunteers to go to Korea Miss Knock was one of four chosen from 90 applicants "I think the archbishop was tipped off on how good I was at installing electrical outlets and replacing sash she said Miss Knock crossed the Pacific on a freighter which made the voyage in two weeks and passed through a hurricane was exciting The plates stay on the table but we never missed a meal" she said After arriving in the city of Mokpo the sisters set about adjusting to life half a world away from their native land food is really different but we loved it We also found out that you just take showers every Miss Knock said After returning to Seton Hall in 1965 Miss Knock spent two years traveling around the country raising funds for the Korean projects Around this time her stepmother had become seriously ill and her father had gone blind and Miss Knock made the decision to leave the Sisters of Charity to help her parents Marty Knock nunturned-banker AP Corporate giant has long reach A problem shared by many people and companies is getting recognition terrible to feel neglected unappreciated why you often see companies break out in print or nervous song with one of those thought like to advertisements wherein they inform you as if you were panting to learn what they do and how much a part of your life they really are Foremost-McKesson of San Francisco is a company likely to be talked into an image-shaping campaign one day Before that happens look at one of the more unknown corporate giants in the land Foremost-McKesson is above anything else a middleman the largest wholesaler in the country A wholesaler takes goods made by others and distributes them to people who sell the goods to the ultimate consumer Foremost-McKesson does this in three different fields: drugs beverages and chemicals by far our largest drug wholesaler distributing more than 50000 products to 16000 drugstores and 2000 hospitals the largest distributor of liquors and wines serving 62000 retailers in 16 states And No 1 in the distribution of industrial chemicals things like solvents used as degreasers Those are big businesses they add up to about $3 billion a year but largely invisible unless you also happen to know that Foremost-McKesson is the driving force behind the 1500-member Valu-Rite drug chain (a group of locally owned This motley family results from a 1967 merger of Foremost Dairies (San Francisco) with McKesson Robbins (New York) The first eight years of the marriage were chaotic with members of the new household going their separate ways But then thecomputer came to the rescue Foremost-McKesson found that what every wholesaler needs is a computer The company used to have 140 buyers sending in orders to drug manufacturers Now it buys 50 percent more merchandise with just 13 buyers You know those computer-printed shelf labels you see in mahy drugstores these days? Foremost-McKesson supplies them to its customers A clerk walking the aisles with an electronic wand or terminal can automatically reorder products from the Foremost-McKesson warehouse This computerization also enables Foremost-McKesson to provide its retail customers with an elaborate monthly printout that tells them at a glance what they bought and how much money making on each item Foremost-McKesson will spend $45 miUion this year on computer stuff The increased efficiency has produced a quantum jump in profits and has made Foremost-McKesson a leaner operation The company came into the 1970s with 18500 employees Now down to 17680 spread over 40 states with the biggest concentrations in California (6312) and Texas 0236) Los Angeles Times Syndicate milton moskomitz stores yoked together the way Ace hardware stores and IGA food-stores are) and that Foremost-McKesson beyond being a wine and spirits distributor owns andor controls certain brands coming into the country These for examples are Foremost-McKesson brands: Scotch the Folonari wines from Italy St Pauli Girl beer from Germany Galliano liqueur Mount Gay rum Now that getting into the visible part of Foremost-McKesson you need to know that this is a fairly hefty food company If in the East you probably know the Mueller pasta line: 28 different kinds of spaghetti and noodles in 22 states they reach as far west as Chicago and they rank in poundage as our No 1 pasta producer If in the West at least in 11 states west of the Mississippi River including California you know the Foremost dairy products: milk cheese ice cream Yami yogurt Finally a pieceof business trivia: Foremost-McKesson is the largest seller of drinking water marketed in California and Arizona under the Alhambra Crystal and Sparkletts names and dispensed from more than 1600 Aqua-Vend machines installed across the Sunbelt from California to Florida ft 'v a UPI photo gs "The Bat" at $38 million is the world's first suspended roller coaster fTheme parks Rewarding Careers in Sales Make money where money to be made something everyone can go on and experience together finding more and more in studies that families want to do things Jack Yager of Kings Dominion Doswell Va said will be interesting to see if parks can sell the white water rides because people might say want to ride the But he conceded rides always do Another attraction which industry officials think may fulfill family needs is a dark ride employing the latest in computer electronics and animation and pioneered by Disney Six Flags over Georgia at Atlanta claims their new $31 million in which guests board a boat and ride through a flooded antebellum mansion inhabited by 130 three-dimensional lifelike monsters is the first of such proportions attempted outside the Disney organization David Kaplan a spokesman for the Georgia park said Monster Plantation underscores the determination to appeal to changing tastes ride was originally targeted to adults and kids up to the age of Kaplan said even address teenagers but they like it too will soften the thrill ride image for Kaplan added we learn from the Plantation will go a long way in determining what other parks will Another upcoming attraction said Tim Taggart managing editor of Amusement Business are simulators that riders without moving them at all Simulators can take riders on roller coasters behind the wheel of a sportscar or on an undersea Join one of Wall fastest-growing brokerage houses Continued from pageF i thriller called jj The Beast set records for longest drop longest ride and highest speed and length )S The Bat is the first suspended roli-fer coaster Tracks are above the cars which Uhang down from steel bars thus eliminating the psychological security of tracks be-low Riders often have difficulty predicting ahead and on corners find themselves in cars that are at right angles to the ground feel we should be the forerunner of the industry when it comes to thrill said Tom Nowlin director of marketing at Kings Island it is now time to turn our attention to other Great America at Gurnee 111 unleashed the $10 million billed as the largest doubleracing wooden roller coaster It features the longest drop 147 feet of any coaster around and beats by just six feet the first drop of The Beast will give us four coasters and our first wooden one which we said Margie Moss will round us out and the American Eagle will be a landmark for the Midwest our trend will be away from the thrill One of the trends is toward rides billed as family fare rides that will appeal to those who would rather not lose their stomach contents at the top of a hill An attraction which takes advantage of the to concept and amusement park seeming love of water is a whitewater raft ride developed by Inta-min of Zurich Switzerland Circular rafts holding up to 12 people free-float through a twisting foaming man-made river No two rides are the same since the rafts are not on tracks The prototype of that ride which cost about $35 million to build opened last year as at Six Astro-world in Houston The ride which now costs about $5 million opened this year at two more Six Flags parks Magic Mountain in Southern California and Great Adventure in Jackson NJ and at Opryland Nashville Tenn where called River whole concept is designed specifical-1 ly for the said Gary Dalton looks turbulent and you definitely get the feeling of a white water raft ride The landscaping and ambiance of the ride really appeals to the momsand Thunder River turned out to be the most popular ride and in a summer that brought oppressive heat to Texas helped Astroworld attract 175 million patrons up from 17 million in 1979 Catherine Bolton national public relations manager for Six Flags said the continued popularity of log flume riijes sparked the building of more love to get she said TAKE A MINUTE TO CHECK OUR YIELD! 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