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JIM DUDLEY PROMOTED TO DISTRICT MANAGER OF VANCOUVER
James J. Dudley, that personable young fellow who made such a hit with the femmes at last year’s convention in Toronto entered this business immediately after graduating from University Hill High School in Vancouver. Starting in Victoria in 1966 he soon moved to Vancouver where he gained extensive experience under both Ivan Ackery and Charlie Doctor. In June of 1967 he was appointed manager of the Columbia in New Westminster and a year later opened the deluxe Richmond twin theatres. As a manager he won many
BLAKE CAMERON HEA
Blake Cameron has relinquished his supervisory duties to head the newly created Marketing Research Department for our company. This move again emphasizes the growing awareness of the importance of customer relations to industry as a whole, and especially so to a service industry such as ours.
Preparatory to assumption of his new and challenging duties, Blake will take a number of specialized courses in Marketing Research in the U.S. and to add practical value to his studies he will do extensive on-the-job surveys with such aggressive, well-organized and ultra efficient multi-unit international operators as the Holiday Inn operators in the United States and Canada.
On his return he will immediately undertake a detailed survey of our own
awards and was cited as first and second runner-up in the C.I.M.Y. contests in 1967 and 1968.
Jim is still a bachelor ... no doubt due to Ack’s influence ... and is an avid skier and boatsman. I'm sure that we'll be hearing much more of Jim’s activities once he gets going on his new job.
Congratulations Jim, and all the best to you from all your friends in head office and our theatres from coast to Coast.
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company operations. . . a study of age group preferences and their affect on attendance ... the quality of service
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and suggestions for improvement ... theatre-customer relationship and its effect on ticket sales, in short anything and everything that will update our theatre operations and firmly implant the suggestion that anything under the F.P. trademark must be of the highest quality and the best in the field, always with the customer's comfort and satisfaction in mind.
Blake's educational and business background will serve him well in this new area of activity. Always a prober, a researcher, an organizer, he has the happy faculty of putting bits and pieces together to come up with a solid, workable pattern. We wish Blake well in his new assignment, and | am sure he can count on each and every member of our Famous Family to work right along with him in this new and very exciting area of activity.
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MANAGERIAL CHANGES
E.S. Bielby from the Strand, Vancouver to Richmond Twin Theatres, Richmond.
L.C. Stration from the Downtown, Vancouver, to the Strand, Vancouver.
S.F. Pooley from the Columbia, New Westminster, to the Downtown, Vancouver.
Mrs. $.J. Dauphine appointed Manageress of Columbia Theatre, New Westminster.