The Fisher Story | 13
1935 Logo change.
Solid gold emblems awarded to employees to
recognize years of service.
First Fisher sales meeting
held in Marshalltown.
300 active type numbers and
hundreds of specials.
Employees number 250.
Type 730 service regulator
is introduced.
our superiors as ‘Mister’ (at least
until instructed otherwise) and
were relentlessly conscious that
these were the Depression years
and we could easily be replaced.
“Then came the war, when
we wore bobby socks and rode
bicycles to work to save gas.
I worked enough overtime to
buy my first (and last) fur coat.
“It was suggested I offer
some words of advice to young
people at Fisher, those just
starting their careers. You have
Emblems show a bust of
William Fisher supported by the
wings of good fellowship and
the hour glass of time
good jobs with a fine company.
Give it the very best you can
each day, and I’m confident
you’ll get more than the best
back. If a time comes when it
seems to you it didn’t work out
quite that way, you still have a
comforting thought—you tried.”
Francis had a Governor
column called “From Whom
Heaven Protects,” which
appeared regularly for several
years. She also wrote the skits
delivered at the 1950 and 1955
sales meetings in Marshalltown.
Women employees in the
1930s and 1940s were called
“office girls” and served as
stenographers, secretaries,
receptionists and switchboard
operators.