Curtis "Hank" Barnette left Bethlehem Steel's boardroom using a feeling of calm and objective. Bethlehem Steel was adored by him. He'd seen it prosper and decline over the previous 30 years, and he had given most of his life to shepherding it through change. Barnette was a soft-spoken man with a serene countenance along with graying hair. He paused at the plate-glass window and looked toward the enormous blast furnaces along with the miles of steelwork structures on the south side of town. So much had happened many lives, families, initiations, and purposeful interactions.
And now a unique section of the corporation would come to a finish on his watch as CEO and chairman: The doors were closing on Bethlehem Steel's Structural Products Division located in the center of the city of Bethlehem. When one door was shut, another window opened-up somewhere else - did not it? The current company structure would finish, but he had assets to work with: the folks, historical artifacts, town, buildings, goodwill he had spent a good part of his life as well as the land.
PUBLICATION DATE: December 27, 2011 PRODUCT #: UV5153-HCB-ENG
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