Johns-Manville Interim Report on Association Memberships of the Company and Its Personnel (1974)

A 38-page "Interim Report on Association Memberships of Johns-Manville Corporation(s) & Johns-Manville Personnel," dated June 21, 1974, prepared by R. E. Lepic of J-M's Corporate Marketing Research & Analysis group for R. H. Cuje and approved by J. R. Gibson. It lists about 300 business, trade, scientific, professional and other associations to which J-M, its subsidiaries and about 800 of its people belonged in the United States and Canada, naming the J-M members of each. The report says the data came from questionnaires sent out by W. F. Goodwin of Public Relations and by R. R. Heath Jr. of the Legal Department, "who was interested in anti-trust matters."

What it shows

The list is a map of the trade groups J-M worked through in the early 1970s. Among the entries are the Asbestos Cement Pipe Producers Association, the Asbestos Cement Products Association, the Asbestos Information Association/North America, the Asbestos Textile Institute, the Industrial Health Foundation, the Quebec Asbestos Mining Association (with W. B. Reitze listed on its health committee), and the thermal insulation manufacturers' associations of the United States and Canada. The report suggests uses for the list such as finding studies an association had done and checking "the anti-trust implications of membership in a certain association."

About this copy

The pages carry "REDACTED J-M 83" stamps and production numbers in the 0001 2510 range; nothing on the pages appears blacked out. Pages 31 and 32 are a cross-reference chart of association chapters and committees.